Yiwu's Import And Export Growth In The First Half Of 2012 Should Be Noticed.

First half of this year Yiwu The total value of imports and exports reached US $2 billion 20 million, an increase of 21% over the same period last year, which is 13 percentage points higher than the national average of imports and exports. Exports of US $1 billion 860 million, an increase of 22% over the same period, and imports of US $160 million, an increase of 6% over the same period last year. Among them, exports of US $380 million in June, an increase of 16.4% over the previous year, and imports of US $30 million, an increase of 16.3% over the same period last year.

Judging from the overall situation, Yiwu's import trade has been at a low level in the first half of this year, affected by the domestic economic situation. In the first half of this year, Yiwu imported $160 million, an increase of only 6% over the same period last year. At the same time, Yiwu's exports increased by 21% in the first half of this year. However, the export volume in June dropped significantly, with a total export of US $380 million, an increase of only 16.4% over the same period last year.

General trade exports account for more than 90%. In the first half of this year, Yiwu enterprises exported $1 billion 780 million in general trade mode, an increase of 22.6%, accounting for the same period in Yiwu. Total export value 95.7% of the total, exports by processing trade amounted to US $71 million 560 thousand, an increase of 17%, accounting for 3.8%. Export processing amounted to 68 million 550 thousand US dollars, an increase of 16.8%, accounting for 95.8% of the total volume of processing trade.

Private enterprises are the main force of Yiwu's foreign trade. In the first half of this year, Yiwu's private enterprises imported and exported 1 billion 540 million US dollars, an increase of 28.7% over the same period last year, accounting for 76.2% of the total volume of Yiwu's self operated exports. The import and export of foreign-invested enterprises amounted to 230 million US dollars, down 8% from the same period last year, accounting for 11.4% of the total volume of Yiwu's self operated exports.

Exports to the European Union grew slowly, and exports to the United States, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia increased rapidly. In the first half of this year, Yiwu exported the EU market to US $300 million, a slight increase of 4.4% over the same period last year, far below the average growth rate of Yiwu's foreign trade, and exported US $330 million, US $110 million and US $70 million to the United States, UAE and Saudi Arabia respectively, up 25.5%, 39.2% and 1.3 times respectively over the same period last year.

Clothing and accessories, mechanical and electrical products, textile yarns, fabrics and products still occupy the top three of Yiwu's self export. Among them, clothing and accessories exports the most, total exports of 790 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 21.6% over the previous year, accounting for 42.4% of the total volume of self operated exports in Yiwu; the export of mechanical and electrical products grew rapidly, totaling 240 million US dollars, up 39.4% over the same period last year, accounting for 12.9% of the total volume of Yiwu's self operated exports.

Industry experts predict that the global economic growth is still weak due to the uncertainty of the European debt crisis since the two quarter of this year, so in the second half of Yiwu foreign trade The situation may remain unoptimistic. Therefore, it is suggested that Yiwu continue to maintain the current export rebate and other foreign trade support policies, increase innovation, further expand the industrial chain, increase the added value of products, and pay attention to the coordinated development of foreign trade and import and export. At the same time, we should give full play to the radiation effect of Yiwu import hall, broaden the import channels, increase the import scale of advanced technology and equipment, key components and consumer goods, and maintain the steady growth trend of Yiwu's import and export.