PHNOM PENH, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia had exported 344,199 tons of milled rice in the first five months of 2025, earning a gross revenue of 252.3 million U.S. dollars, the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) said in a news release on Wednesday.
Forty-eight companies had shipped the kingdom's milled rice to 63 countries and regions during the January-May period this year, the news release said, adding that China remained one of the key importers of the commodity.
The Southeast Asian country exported 90,665 tons of milled rice to China in the first five months of this year, making 53.2 million dollars in revenue, the news release said.
About 75.56 percent of the exported rice was fragrant rice, 19.33 percent was white rice, 2.43 percent was parboiled rice, 2.03 percent was organic rice, and 0.65 percent was other types of rice, CRF secretary general Lun Yeng said.
Cambodian Ministry of Commerce's Secretary of State and Spokesperson Penn Sovicheat said the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement and the Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) have laid a solid foundation for Cambodia to export its agricultural items to China and other RCEP countries with tariff concessions.
"Under these trade deals, a number of Cambodian products, especially high-quality agricultural produce such as milled rice, yellow bananas, mangoes, longans, and peppercorn, as well as some wild aquatic products, have been exported to China with preferential tariffs," he told Xinhua. ■