F REIGN TRADE - 中国国际贸易促进委员会

ECONOMYData Watch:China’s Foreign Tradeand Investmentin the First Four Months of 2012China’s foreign trade in the first fourmonths of 2012According to statistics of the Customs,China’s exports and imports in the first fourmonths of 2012 reached $1.16718 trillion, upby 6.0% over the same period of last year. Specifically,exports stood at $593.24 billion, upby 6.9% year on year; imports $573.94billion,up by 5.1%. The four months saw a trade surplusof $1.93 million.Significant increase in trade with emergingmarkets. From January to April of the year,China’s bilateral trade with Russia and Brazilreported 27.7% and 14.4% increases over thesame period of last year to reach $28.69 billionand $25.07 billion respectively. The nation’strade with Europe jumped by 4.7% to reach$170.53 billion; that with the United States upby 9.2% to $146.1 billion; and that with theASEAN up by 6.7% to $117.65 billion. China’strade with Japan fell by 1.5% to $107.18.Significant increase in exports of centraland western China. Exports of Central andWestern China jumped by 23.6% and 39.9%respectively, compared with the 4.1% increase28