Xinhua Full Media+丨 my country's import and export of foreign trade in the first eight months of our country increased by 10.1% year -on -year

The General Administration of Customs released data on the 7th. In the first eight months of this year, the total value of import and export in my country was 27.3 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.1%year -on -year.

Specifically, my country exported 15.48 trillion yuan in the first eight months, an increase of 14.2%; imports were 11.82 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.2%; the trade surplus was 3.66 trillion yuan, an increase of 58.2%.

Looking at August alone, the total value of foreign trade imports and exports in my country was 3.71 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.6%. Among them, exports were 2.12 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.8%; imports were 1.59 trillion yuan, an increase of 4.6%; the trade surplus was 535.91 billion yuan, an increase of 40.4%.

Li Kuiwen, director of the Department of Statistics of the General Administration of Customs, said that since the beginning of this year, in the face of a complex and severe foreign trade development environment, my country's efficient coordinating epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development have continued to introduce a series of policies for stabilizing foreign trade to promote stable growth in foreign trade.

From the perspective of trading partners, ASEAN continues to maintain the status of my country's largest trading partner. In the first eight months, the total value of my country and ASEAN trade with ASEAN was 4.09 trillion yuan, an increase of 14%, accounting for 15%of my country's total foreign trade value; the total value of my country and the EU trade was 3.75 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.5%, accounting for 13.7%; The total value of Sino -US trade was 3.35 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.1%, accounting for 12.3%; the total value of China and South Korea's trade was 1.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.8%, accounting for 5.9%.

It is worth mentioning that during the same period, my country ’s total imports and exports to countries along the“ Belt and Road ”increased by 20.2%year -on -year, and the import and export of 14 member states of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) increased by 7.5%year -on -year.

From the perspective of foreign trade subjects, private enterprises continue to play the role of the "main force" of foreign trade. In the first eight months, the import and export of private enterprises was 13.68 trillion yuan, an increase of 14.9%, accounting for 50.1%of my country's total foreign trade value, an increase of 2.1 percentage points from the same period last year.

The data also shows that the exports of mechanical and electrical products and labor -intensive products have increased. In the first eight months, my country's export mechanical and electrical products were 8.75 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.8%, accounting for 56.5%of the total export value; export labor -intensive products were 2.81 trillion yuan, an increase of 14.1%, accounting for 18.1%.

In terms of imports, in the first eight months, the import volume of iron ore in my country has fallen, and imports of crude oil, coal, natural gas and soybeans have been reduced.

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