According to Yiwu customs statistics, from January to October this year, the city’s total foreign trade import and export amount to 32.5 billion dollars, yearonyear up 28.7%.
Customs officers told reporters that in the first 10 months of this year the import growth higher than export,exports $ 2.95 billion, yearonyear up 26.6 percent, and imports $ 260 million, an increase of 44.3%. In October, yiwu city’s import and export self-support is $ 350 million, an increase of 35.2%, which exports $ 320 million, an increase of 27.3%.
It is understood that the first 10 months of this year, yiwu city’s biggest export market is the European Union and the United States, showing the trend of price much more than amount. Yiwu self-support import and export enterprise exports to the EU $ 680 million, an increase of 25.9%, export freight 678,000 tons, down 3.4%; exports to the U.S. $ 510 million, an increase of 23.2%, export freight 384,000 tons, up decreased by 1.4%.