China News Service, Fuzhou, July 18 (Ye Qiuyun) Recently, Putian Customs, a subsidiary of Fuzhou Customs, completed the port inspection of 5,562.894 cubic meters of Brazilian torch pine bulk logs.
According to reports, this is the first time that Putian Port has imported Brazilian bulk logs.
According to Putian Customs statistics, from January to June 2021, Putian Customs has supervised 318,000 cubic meters of imported bulk logs at 50.423 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 8.0% and 34.3% year-on-year.
Huang Mingjuan, director of the Fuzhou Customs Statistics and Analysis Division, revealed that in the first half of this year, Fujian's foreign trade imports and exports achieved substantial growth.
Horizontally, Fujian’s foreign trade is better than the national average. Vertically, excluding the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, compared with the same period in 2019, the growth rates of imports and exports, exports and imports reached 34.8%, 23.9%, and 54%, respectively. The scale of imports and exports The best level in the same period in history.
Huang Mingjuan said that, driven by the improvement of the global new crown pneumonia epidemic situation and the easing of monetary policies in developed countries, the global economy has accelerated this year, which has led to a rebound in trade demand.
In the first half of this year, Fujian's foreign trade import and export amounted to 859.96 billion yuan, an increase of 39.1% over the same period last year (the same below).
Compared with the same period in 2019, the growth rate of imports and exports is still as high as 34.8%.
As the “Belt and Road” initiative continues to deepen, the economic and trade cooperation between Fujian Province and the countries along the “Belt and Road” has become increasingly close.
According to data provided by Fuzhou Customs, in the first half of this year, Fujian Province’s imports and exports to countries along the “Belt and Road” reached 291.92 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 39.3%, which was 0.3 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of Fujian’s foreign trade in the same period, accounting for Fujian’s foreign trade imports. 33.9% of the total export value.
According to Huang Mingjuan's analysis, the economic and trade cooperation between Fujian Province and the countries along the "Belt and Road" mainly showed that key trading partners have become more active, the export of mechanical and electrical products and labor-intensive products is eye-catching, and the trade cooperation in the fields of energy and minerals has accelerated.
Statistics show that in the first half of the year, Fujian Province exported 59.07 billion yuan of labor-intensive products to countries along the "Belt and Road", an increase of 33.4%, accounting for 35.7% of the total export value of Fujian Province to countries along the "Belt and Road"; 55.34 billion yuan of mechanical and electrical products. , An increase of 36.5%, accounting for 33.4%.
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