Source: China Trade News
The General Administration of Customs announced today that in the first four months of this year, the total value of my country's foreign trade imports and exports was 12.58 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.9%. Among them, exports were 6.97 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.3%; imports were 5.61 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5%.
Li Kuiwen, director of the Statistics and Analysis Department of the General Administration of Customs, said that under the more complex and severe external environment faced by my country's foreign trade development, my country's foreign trade import and export still maintained growth in the first four months, and the number of foreign trade enterprises with import and export performance increased year-on-year. 4.7%. This fully reflects the characteristics of my country's economy with strong resilience, sufficient potential, wide room for maneuver, and long-term positive fundamentals that will not change. my country's goal of maintaining stability and improving foreign trade throughout the year is still well supported.
Customs statistics show that my country's foreign trade structure continued to be optimized in the first four months, with general trade imports and exports reaching 8.01 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.2%. my country's imports and exports to ASEAN, the European Unio, the United States and South Korea were 1.84 trillion yuan, 1.73 trillion yuan, 1.56 trillion yuan and 764.92 billion yuan respectively, up 7.2%, 6.8%, 8.7% and 8.4% year-on-year respectively. ASEAN continues to be my country's largest trading partner, accounting for 14.6% of my country's total foreign trade.
During the same period, the total import and export volume between my country and the countries along the "Belt and Road" totaled 3.97 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.4%. The total import and export volume between my country and the other 14 RCEP member countries was 3.84 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.9%.
According to Li Kuiwen, the continuous optimization of the international market layout with close regional cooperation and diversified trade can not only improve the vitality and potential of my country's foreign trade, but also promote the continuous growth of bilateral trade between my country and countries along the "Belt and Road" and RCEP member countries. In the first four months, my country's import and export growth with countries along the "Belt and Road" was 7.5 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate.