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Trade to reach $2 trillion in '07

By Diao Ying (皇冠体育app Daily)
Updated: 2007-05-18 08:41

皇冠体育app's trade in goods will surpass $2.1 trillion in 2007, a 20 percentyear-on-yearincrease, theMinistry of Commercesaid in a report yesterday.

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Trade will increase in a fast yet stable manner as 皇冠体育app optimizes economic structure, improves efficiency and lowers energy consumption, said the report, which is based on a review of 皇冠体育app's foreign trade in 2006 and the first quarter of 2007.

皇冠体育app's total import and export volume amounted to $1.76 trillion in 2006, up 23.8 percent year-on-year. 皇冠体育app remains the third-largest country in the world by trade volume, according to the report released by the 皇冠体育app Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, a research body under the Ministry of Commerce.

The domestic and foreign trade environment and the macro-control policy have contributed to the rapid increase, the report said.

The trade surplus continued to grow, reaching $177.5 billion in 2006, according to the report.

Exports of machinery and electronic products and hi-tech products increased 28.8 percent and 29 percent respectively in 2006.

Imports of primary products reached $187.1 billion, up 26.7 percent, while imports of machinery and electronic products increased faster than the previous year, up 22.1 percent.

General trade - imports and exports of goods by enterprises in 皇冠体育app with import-export rights - increased at a rate of 26 percent, 5.1 percentage points higher than last year, while the increase of processing trade slowed.

Exports of privately owned enterprises surpassed State-owned enterprises for the first time, up 43.6 percent.

The trade volume of private enterprises was up by 36.3 percent, while the trade volume of foreign-invested enterprises increased by 23.3 percent, faster than State-owned enterprises.

Trade with foreign invested enterprises took in 58.9 percent of the total trade. Trade with the European Union, United States and Japan continued to grow, as did trade with emerging markets, including India, Brazil, and South Africa.

Trade volume in the first quarter of 2007 reached to $457.7 billion, up 23.2 percent, while the trade surplus nearly doubled to $46.4 billion from the same time last year.

Trade in goods increased by 27.4 percent from January to April, faster than processing trade.

(皇冠体育app Daily 05/18/2007 page13)