In the past ten months, my country's total import and export volume of goods has increased by 5.2%.

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In the past ten months, my country's total import and export volume of goods has increased by 5.2%.
2024-11-12

According to the information released on the official website of the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China, in the first ten months of 2024, the total value of my country's trade in goods (including exports and imports) reached an astonishing 36.02 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.2% compared with the same period last year.


In the first ten months of 2024, my country's imports and exports showed the following significant characteristics:


First, general trade, processing trade and other imports and exports have increased to varying degrees. In the first ten months, my country's total imports and exports of general trade reached 23.09 trillion yuan, an increase of 3.9% compared with the same period last year, accounting for 64.1% of my country's total foreign trade.


Secondly, my country's imports and exports with ASEAN, the EU, the United States and South Korea also increased. In the first ten months, ASEAN has become my country's largest trading partner, and the total trade between my country and ASEAN reached 5.67 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.8% compared with the same period last year, accounting for 15.7% of my country's total foreign trade.


Thirdly, the imports and exports of my country's private enterprises and foreign-funded enterprises have also increased. In the first ten months, the total import and export volume of private enterprises in my country reached 19.85 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.3% over the same period last year, accounting for 55.1% of my country's total foreign trade, an increase of 2.1 percentage points over the same period last year.


In addition, the proportion of electromechanical products in my country's exports is close to 60%, among which the export growth of automatic data processing equipment and its parts, integrated circuits and automobiles is particularly obvious. In the first ten months, the total export volume of electromechanical products in my country reached 12.36 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.5% over the same period last year, accounting for 59.4% of my country's total exports.


Finally, my country's imports of iron ore, coal and natural gas have increased. In the first ten months, my country's total iron ore imports reached 1.023 billion tons, up 4.9% from the same period last year, with an average price of 778.2 yuan per ton, down 1.6%; crude oil imports were 457 million tons, down 3.4% from the same period last year, with an average price of 4,246.1 yuan per ton, up 2.2%; coal imports were 435 million tons, up 13.5% from the same period last year, with an average price of 694.3 yuan per ton, down 12%. .2%; the import volume of natural gas was 110 million tons, up 13.6% over the same period last year, with an average price of 3,506.7 yuan per ton, down 5.5%; the import volume of soybeans was 89.936 million tons, up 11.2% over the same period last year, with an average price of 3,600.3 yuan per ton, down 15.2%; the import volume of refined oil was 40.921 million tons, up 4.9% over the same period last year, with an average price of 4,347.7 yuan per ton, up 5.7%.