General Administration of Customs: December 09 Import Innovation High export growth negative positive

December 2009 Foreign Trade Rapid Growth General Customs 10th issued the 2009 China's foreign trade import and export situation. According to customs statistics, China's foreign trade import and export value of 2009 to 2,207,270,000,000 U.S. dollars, compared with 2008 (same) fell 13.9%, slightly higher than 2007 trade value. Exports of 1,201,670,000,000 U.S. dollars, down 16%, import 1.0056 trillion U.S. dollars, down 11.2%.　　The annual trade surplus of 196.07 billion U.S. dollars, reduced by 34.2%. Customs statistics show that December 2009, China's foreign trade and import and export significantly increased, import and export value of 243.02 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 32.7%, the chain growth of 16.7%;　　, imports 112.29 billion U.S. dollars, created a monthly import value of the record record, the year-on-year growth of 55.9%, the chain growth of 18.8%. Affected by the international financial crisis, China's foreign trade and import and export experienced a continuous sharp decline since November 2008, to start a stable recovery in March 2009, the August rebound trend is basically established, November import and export value began to grow, December imports and exports both appear strong growth, The chain also showed a sharp increase, the monthly import value created the highest record, the monthly export value is also listed in the history of the fourth high, indicating that China's foreign trade in the accelerated recovery.　　At the same time, the sharp increase in imports, indicating the effectiveness of economic stimulus policies, domestic demand is relatively strong, which is conducive to the recovery of the world economy. In bilateral trade with major trading partners, the EU was China's largest trading partner in 2009, with a total of 364.09 billion U.S. dollars in bilateral trade, down 14.5%. Over the same period, the United States as our second largest trading partner, Sino-US bilateral trade value of 298.26 billion U.S. dollars, down 10.6%.　　Japan's position as the third largest trading partner, the 2009-year Sino-Japanese bilateral trade value of 228.85 billion U.S. dollars, the year-on-year decline of 14.2%. From the domestic perspective, all over the positive stability of external demand, promote exports. According to customs statistics, in December, Guangdong province exports 39.97 billion U.S. dollars, the year-on-year growth of 23.5%, the chain growth of 15.2%, Jiangsu, Shanghai and Zhejiang monthly exports were tens of billions of dollars, respectively, 20.35 billion, 15.21 billion and 13.61 billion U.S. dollars, respectively, increased by 17.6%, 23.8% And 14.3%, the chain growth of 4.5%, 13.1% and 20.3% respectively.　　In the same period, Shandong, Fujian and Beijing exported 8.09 billion, 5.71 billion and 5.01 billion U.S. dollars respectively, the year-on-year growth of 15.3%, 23.2% and 6.5%, the chain growth of 7.4%, 20.6% and 10.1% respectively. According to customs statistics, in the 2009 export commodities, China since August 2008, 7 consecutive adjustment of export rebate rate of goods involved in total exports of 676.02 billion U.S. dollars, down 16.4%。 One of the main labor-intensive products exports year-on-year decline is less than the total export decline of 16%, in order to protect people's livelihood and promote employment to make positive contributions. Customs statistics show that the December 2009 export situation is gratifying. The current month of mechanical and electrical products exports 78.05 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 26.9%; textile exports 6.22 billion U.S. dollars, growth of 25.2%; furniture exports 3.09 billion U.S. dollars, growth 10.8%, toy exports 620 million U.S. dollars, growth 4.4%, luggage exports 1.48 billion U.S. dollars, increase 1.9%.　　Over the same period, footwear exports of 2.82 billion U.S. dollars, down 2.2%; clothing exports 10.57 billion U.S. dollars, down 4.8%. Among the imports, the volume of imports of major commodities increased in varying degrees in 2009, with iron ore imports of 630 million tonnes, an increase of 41.6%, an average import price of $79.9 per ton, a decrease of 41.7%, and 200 million tonnes of crude oil imports, an increase of 13.9%, an average import price of $438 per ton , soybean imports 42.55 million tons, grew 13.7%, the import average price is 441.5 U.S. dollars per ton, down 24.3%. Annual imports of mechanical and electrical products 491.47 billion U.S. dollars, down 8.7%, of which 419,000 vehicles imported, increased by 2.8%.