April China's trade showed a small surplus year-on-year drop nearly 90%

Xinhua Beijing May 10 (reporter Wang Youling, tetrarch) General Administration of customs 10th released data shows that this April, China's trade showed a small surplus of 1.68 billion U.S. dollars, down 87% year-on-year. According to customs statistics, this April, China's import and export value of 238.16 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 39.4%.　　Exports of 119.92 billion U.S. dollars, growth of 30.5%, faster than last month 6.3%; imports 118.24 billion U.S. dollars, growth of 49.7%. Customs statistics show that the first 4 months of this year, China's import and export value of 855.99 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 42.7%.　　Exports of 436.05 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 29.2%, imports of 419.94 billion U.S. dollars, growth of 60.1%, the trade surplus is 16.11 billion U.S. dollars, down 78.6%. Compared with 2008 years ago 4 months, the total value of imports and exports increased by 8% in the first 4 months of this year, 2.6% in export and 14.2% in imports.　　The total value of imports and exports increased by 7.6% in April this year compared with the same period in 2008; According to customs statistics, the first 4 months of this year, China's general trade import and export 429.05 billion U.S. dollars, increase 46%, higher than the same period of the national import and export growth of 3.3%. Exports of 194.88 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 27.2%, imports of 234.17 billion U.S. dollars, growth of 66.4%.　　Trade deficits of 39.29 billion U.S. dollars under general trading, compared with a surplus of $12.48 billion in the same period in 2009. Over the same period, China's processing trade imports and exports 333.16 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 37.7%. Exports of 208.87 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 30%, imports of 124.29 billion U.S. dollars, growth of 52.9%.　　Processing trade trade surplus of 84.58 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 6.5%, equivalent to 5.2 times times the size of the total surplus over the same period.　　According to customs statistics, in bilateral trade with major trading partners, the EU is China's largest trading partner in the first 4 months of this year, and the bilateral trade value is 137.77 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 34.6%. Sino-US bilateral trade value of 107.18 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 25%. Japan has a weak advantage over ASEAN, with bilateral trade at $88.66 billion trillion in the first 4 months, up 37.5% per cent.　　Japan's trade deficit of 17.72 billion dollars, growth 2.5 times times. Our bilateral trade with ASEAN amounted to 87.09 billion US dollars and grew by 58.5%.　　The trade deficit with ASEAN was $5.87 billion trillion, compared with a 830 million dollar surplus in 2009. According to customs statistics, the first 4 months of this year, China's mechanical and electrical products exports 260.28 billion U.S. dollars, growth of 31.3%, higher than the same period of China's overall export growth rate of 2.1%, accounting for the same period of China's export value of 59.7%. Over the same period, traditional commodity exports have steadily increased, with apparel exports of 32.19 billion U.S. dollars and 9.5% per cent, and textile yarns, textiles and products exporting 21.6 billion U.S. dollars, up 26.1%; furnitureExports of 9.73 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 21.2%, footwear exports 9.68 billion U.S. dollars, growth of 14.7%. In addition, the average import price of major commodities has seen a noticeable pick-up in imports. According to customs statistics, iron ore imports 210 million tonnes in the first 4 months of this year, an increase of 11.6%, an average import price of $100.3 per ton, a rise of 27.2%, 15.23 million tonnes of soybean imports, an increase of 9.9%, and an average import price of $452.1 per ton, up 13.3%.