According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), cashew nuts were exported during the first seven months of this year at an average price of US$7,746 per ton, up 6.5% over the same period last year.The US, Netherlands and China remained the three largest importers of Vietnam cashew nuts, accounting for 33.4%, 13.5% and 13.1% of the total export value respectively.Markets with high import growth in the period included Israel (39.3%), the UK (24.2%), China (23.1%), the Netherlands (20.2%), Germany (19.4%) and Italy (19.3%).MARD also reported that Vietnam imported 156,000 tons of raw cashew nuts worth US$239 million in August. Totally, 725,000 tons of raw cashew nuts were imported in eight months, which cost US$842 million, up 3.7% in volume but down 5.4% in value.