Guangzhou in January an increase of imports and exports are still relatively low in recent billions of dollars

 BEIJING, Feb. 24 Xinhua, Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China in 2010, import and export value of over 6 billion dollars of foreign trade the market, by New Year's focus on exports and other factors, in January 2011 in Guangzhou exports continue to refresh a single month record, a good start. But the export growth rate lower than the national growth rate of Guangdong Province, and other foreign trade the market is still a certain gap.

24, Guangzhou Customs statistics released show that in January 2011, import and export value of Guangzhou City, $ 9,750,000,000, compared with the same period in 2010 (below) increased 24.8%, of which exports 4.84 billion U.S. dollars, the highest Guangzhou single month record high export value, up 33%.

main export commodities, exports of electromechanical products and high-tech exports rose less than the city average, mainly labor-intensive products, growth is good. Mainly labor-intensive products, clothing and accessories exports 510 million U.S. dollars, up 27.5%; textiles $ 220,000,000, an increase of 42.6%; footwear $ 140,000,000, an increase of 17.2%; furniture, $ 170,000,000, an increase of 37.2%.

1 month, Guangzhou City, the European Union, the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, ASEAN's major trading partners in the top 5 of the total value of import and export value of 65%. Among them, the relatively slow growth in EU imports and exports, increased by only 5.0%.

In addition, in January, Guangzhou City, 370 million U.S. dollars worth of trade with Taiwan, up 28.9%, total trade of Macao 030 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 2.4 times. The same period, exports of 290 million U.S. dollars to Latin America, an increase of 87.2%; of Middle East exports 240 million U.S. dollars, up 47.4%; for African exports, $ 210,000,000, an increase of 26.6%. (End)