HANOI, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Vietnam exported 483,000 metric tons of rice in September, down 41.3% from the same month of last year, government data showed on Monday. Rice export revenues in the month fell 54.7% from a year earlier to $232 million, the National Statistics Office said in a report. For the January-September period, rice exports fell 1.6% from a year earlier to 6.9 million tons, with a value of $3.5 billion, it said. (Reporting by Phuong Nguyen; Editing by David Stanway) (The article has been published through a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has been published verbatim. Liability lies with original publisher.)