From January to August, Chengdu's foreign trade increased by 7.1%

Today, Chengdu Customs issued statistics. In the first eight months of this year, the total value of the import and export of goods in Chengdu was 547.07 billion yuan, an increase of 7.1%over the same period last year, accounting for 84.1%of the total value of Sichuan import and export.Among them, exports were 320.52 billion yuan, an increase of 9.1%; imports were 226.55 billion yuan, an increase of 4.3%.

Among them, in the first eight months, the import and export of Chengdu's private enterprises was 139.85 billion yuan, an increase of 37.6%, an increase of 5.7 percentage points from the same period last year.

In addition, in the first eight months, Chengdu exported electromechanical products 261.87 billion yuan, a decrease of 0.7%.Affected by the sharp rise in global energy prices, the imports of metal ore sands have doubled. The import of 5.25 billion yuan in the first eight months, an increase of 7.6 times.Imported agricultural products were 3.91 billion yuan, an increase of 44.4%.(Reporter Wang Huan)

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