General Administration of Customs: Sino-US trade value down 16.6%

Xinhua Beijing, July 10, the General administration of customs 10th released this June China's foreign trade import and export situation shows that the first half of this year, China and the second largest trading partner of the U.S. trade value of 132.09 billion U.S. dollars, down 16.6% year-on-year. Data show that in the first half of this year's bilateral trade with major trading partners, the EU is China's largest trading partner, with a total of 159.97 billion U.S. dollars in bilateral trade, down 20.9% per cent, and the US as the second largest trading partner, with a total value of 132.09 billion U.S. dollars, down 16.6% per cent.　　Japan as the third largest trading partner, the total value of bilateral trade between China and Japan is 99.73 billion U.S. dollars, down 23.1% year-on-year. I and ASEAN import and export value of 88.06 billion U.S. dollars, down 23.8%, the mainland and Hong Kong import and export value of 73.47 billion U.S. dollars, down 24.3%; with India's import and export value of 19.63 billion U.S. dollars, down 32.3%.