China'S Largest Foreign Trade Dependence On Korea Is &Nbsp; Up To 25.8%.

The latest 5 years of Korea's dependence on foreign trade, published by the Ministry of knowledge and economic affairs of Seoul on 4 may, showed that Korea's dependence on China's foreign trade reached 25.8% in 2009. China has become the country with the highest dependence on foreign trade.

Korea's dependence on foreign trade in other countries or regions is measured by the proportion of bilateral trade between Korea and the total volume of foreign trade in Korea.

Data show that Korea's trade dependence on China in 2005 was 18.4%, showing a trend of increasing year by year. By 2008, Korea's trade dependence on China had surged to 30.8%, but in 2009 it fell slightly.

Last year, South Korea's trade dependency on the European Union was 18.3%, its trade dependence on Japan was 13%, and the United States was 12.2%.

Among them, Korea's dependence on foreign trade in the United States reached 13.2% in 2005, then increased year by year, reaching 15.5% in 2008, but fell to 12.2% in 2009.

With the recovery of the Korean economy and the increasing trade between China and South Korea, especially the recent import of large quantities of vegetables from China to alleviate the pressure of excessive fresh food prices in China, the ROK's dependence on China's foreign trade is likely to increase further this year.

On the contrary, trade dependence on the United States may decline slightly.

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