Inventory Of China'S Foreign Trade Has Five Characteristics.

From a regular press conference held by the Ministry of Commerce, Shen Danyang, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, said that in January, the import and export volume of the country was 1 trillion and 880 billion yuan, down 9.8% from the same period (the same below).

Among them, exports were 1 trillion and 140 billion yuan, down 6.6%; imports 740 billion yuan, down 14.4%; the surplus was 406 billion 200 million yuan, an increase of 12.2%.

Excluding price factors, imports and exports, exports and imports fell to 0.9%, 0.5% and 1.5% respectively.

The main features of foreign trade are as follows:

First, the proportion of general trade increased.

General trade imports and exports of 10806 billion yuan, a decrease of 9%, a decline of 0.8 percentage points lower than the overall, accounting for 57.4% of imports and exports, an increase of 0.5 percentage points over the same period last year.

Processing trade imports and exports 533 billion 800 million yuan, down 14.5%.

Other trade imports and exports were 266 billion 800 million yuan, down 2.7%.

The two is the growth of the import and export of private enterprises.

Private enterprises import and export 782 billion 700 million yuan, an increase of 1.5%, accounting for 41.6% of the total import and export volume of the country, an increase of 4.6 percentage points over the same period last year.

Among them, private enterprises

And imports increased by 1% and 2.8% respectively.

The three is the decline in imports and exports to the US, Europe and Japan, and the increase in exports to the surrounding areas.

I fell 9.9%, 9.9% and 6% to the US, EU and Japan respectively, of which exports decreased by 5%, 7.4% and 0.5% respectively.

Exports to the surrounding areas were better, with exports to India, Australia, Hongkong and Russia increased by 9.8%, 4.8%, 2.8% and 0.9% respectively.

Four is

Exports are better than the whole. Imports of major commodities increase and prices fall.

Seven categories of labor-intensive products exported 266 billion 500 million yuan, down 1.3%, a decrease of 5.3 percentage points lower than the whole.

Among them, toys,

Exports of plastic products increased by 17.6%, 2.5% and 1.2% respectively.

The export of mechanical and electrical products was 632 billion 700 million yuan, and the export of high-tech products was 294 billion 200 million yuan, down 6.8% and 4.7% respectively.

Imports of major commodities increased and prices fell, including imports of rubber, copper ore, natural gas, refined oil, copper and iron ore increased by 30%, 28.1%, 22.3%, 13.3%, 5.3% and 4.6% respectively, and import prices fell 21.2%, 20.4%, 32.4%, 29.6%, 19.5% and 19.5% respectively.

Five, the eastern region has a smaller decline, and some of the central and western provinces have increased rapidly.

In the eastern region, imports and exports amounted to 15835 billion yuan, a decrease of 9%, a decrease of 0.8 percentage points.

Among them, exports in the eastern region dropped by 4.3%, while exports from Fujian and Guangdong increased by 1.7% and 0.6% respectively, representing an increase of 0.5 and 1.9 percentage points respectively in the total volume of exports nationwide.

The import and export of the central region is 138 billion 700 million yuan, and the western region's imports and exports are 159 billion yuan, down by 14.6% and 13.7% respectively.

Among them, exports in the central and western regions decreased by 16.3% and 16.4% respectively, while exports from Guizhou, Ningxia, Hubei, Inner Mongolia and Chongqing all maintained two digit growth.