Wenzhou'S Export Volume Rises

Wenzhou Customs released information 16 days, Wenzhou city in the first half of 2012

The total value of US $9 billion 670 million increased by 0.04% over the same period last year.

Before June, the cumulative trade surplus reached 6 billion 970 million US dollars, up 5% over the same period last year.

The European Union, the United States, ASEAN and Russia are still the main trading countries in Wenzhou.

In the first half of this year, the volume of trade between Wenzhou enterprises and the European Union decreased by 11.19% over the same period last year. The volume of trade with the United States increased by 16.39% over the same period last year; the volume of trade with ASEAN increased by 8.96% over the same period last year; the volume of trade with Russia increased by 12% over the same period last year.

The volume of trade between Wenzhou enterprises and Asian countries was 2 billion 981 million US dollars, up 0.51% over the same period last year.

Labor-intensive commodities are still the main force of Wenzhou's exports.

In the first half of the year, the top five export commodities in Wenzhou were shoes and boots.

On and off protection circuit, glasses and valves.

Among them, export shoes and boots are 1 billion 967 million dollars; export garments and accessories 895 million US dollars; export protection circuit devices increased by 11.03% over the same period; export glasses increased by 4.22% compared with the same period last year; export valves increased by 36.39% over the same period last year.

In the first half of the year, imports from Wenzhou were dominated by primary raw materials.

Plastic raw materials increased by 10.39% compared to the same period last year; imports of unwrought refined copper and copper alloys were US $156 million; imports of organic chemicals decreased by 33.15% compared to the same period last year; imports of raw cattle and horse hide were 126 million US dollars, an increase of 3.76% over the same period last year; 111 million US dollars for imported logs; and 79 million US dollars for imported nickel ores and concentrates.