Beijing, August 7 (Reporter Du Haitao) According to customs statistics, in July, my country's imports and exports of goods increased by 6.5% year-on-year, of which exports increased by 10.4% and imports increased by 1.6%. This continued the positive trend of both import and export growth in June. Statistics show that my country’s foreign trade imports and exports in July were 2.93 trillion yuan, of which exports were 1.69 trillion yuan, imports were 1.24 trillion yuan, and the trade surplus was 442.23 billion yuan, an increase of 45.9%.
In the first seven months, the total value of my country's imports and exports of goods trade was 17.16 trillion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 1.7%, and the rate of decline narrowed by 1.5 percentage points from the first half of the year. Among them, exports were 9.4 trillion yuan, down 0.9%; imports were 7.76 trillion yuan, down 2.6%; the trade surplus was 1.64 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.1%.
The proportion of general trade import and export increased, and the import and export of bonded logistics increased. In the first seven months, my country's general trade imports and exports were 10.35 trillion yuan, down 0.5%, accounting for 60.3% of China's total foreign trade value, an increase of 0.7 percentage points over the same period last year. my country imported 2.07 trillion yuan in bonded logistics, an increase of 2.9%. Among them, exports were 700.27 billion yuan, an increase of 5.3%; imports were 1.37 trillion yuan, an increase of 1.7%.
Imports and exports to ASEAN, the EU and Japan increased, while imports to the United States decreased. In the first seven months, the total value of China's trade with ASEAN was 2.51 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.6%, accounting for 14.6% of China's total foreign trade value. The total value of China's trade with the EU was 2.41 trillion yuan, an increase of 0.1%, accounting for 14% of China's total foreign trade value. The total value of Sino-US trade was 2.03 trillion yuan, down 3.3%. Among them, China's exports to the United States were 1.56 trillion yuan, a decrease of 4.1%; the imports from the United States were 475.5 billion yuan, a decrease of 0.3%.
The import and export of private enterprises increased and their proportion increased. In the first seven months, the import and export of private enterprises was 7.83 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.2%, accounting for 45.6% of China's total foreign trade value, an increase of 3.8 percentage points over the same period last year.
Exports of mechanical and electrical products, textiles and plastic products increased, while exports of clothing declined. In the first seven months, my country exported 5.5 trillion yuan of mechanical and electrical products, an increase of 0.2%, accounting for 58.5% of the total export value. In the same period, exports of textiles, including masks, were 634.32 billion yuan, an increase of 35.8%; clothing was 467.6 billion yuan, a decrease of 13.8%.