On October 22, the reporter learned from Quzhou Customs that from January to September this year, the total import and export value of Quzhou City was 56.91 billion yuan, an increase of 8.6% over the same period last year (the same below). Among them, exports were 39.11 billion yuan, an increase of 18.3%; imports were 17.80 billion yuan. The export growth rate ranked second in the province.
Mechanical and electrical products and labor-intensive products drove export growth, and metal ore imports increased by more than 60%. From January to September, the export of mechanical and electrical products was 11.56 billion yuan, an increase of 38.6%, accounting for 29.5% of the city’s total export value, an increase of 4.3 percentage points, and driving export growth by 9.7 percentage points. The export of labor-intensive products was 4.58 billion yuan, an increase of 56.4%, driving growth by 5.0 percentage points. The export of high-tech products was 3.96 billion yuan, an increase of 51.1%, accounting for 10.1%, and the proportion increased by 2.2 percentage points. The export of basic organic chemicals was 3.52 billion yuan. Exports of pulp, paper and its products amounted to 2.9 billion yuan, up 2.3%. In terms of imports, metal ore imports amounted to 2.81 billion yuan, accounting for 15.8%, up 67.8%, driving the city’s imports up 5.9 percentage points. Pulp imports amounted to 3.78 billion yuan.
Exports to ASEAN and the United States grew better than the overall, while imports from the EU continued to grow. From January to September, Quzhou exported 5.38 billion yuan and 4.60 billion yuan to ASEAN and the United States, up 28.3% and 24.9% respectively. Exports to the EU amounted to 4.44 billion yuan. Imports from ASEAN and Latin America amounted to 7.67 billion yuan and 3.85 billion yuan respectively. Imports from the EU amounted to 1.39 billion yuan, up 98.4%. In addition, imports and exports to countries participating in the construction of the “Belt and Road” amounted to 31.32 billion yuan; imports and exports to member countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) amounted to 24.28 billion yuan, up 7.1%.
Private enterprises have strong foreign trade vitality, and processing trade has driven import and export growth by nearly 30%. From January to September, private enterprises in Quzhou imported and exported 48.37 billion yuan, an increase of 14.6%, accounting for 85.0% of the city’s total import and export value. Among them, exports were 32.12 billion yuan, an increase of 28.0%; imports were 16.25 billion yuan. Foreign-funded enterprises imported and exported 6.72 billion yuan. From January to September, general trade imports and exports in Quzhou were 42.91 billion yuan. Processing trade imports and exports were 13.98 billion yuan, an increase of 1.9 times, driving the city’s import and export growth by 27.9 percentage points. Quzhou exported 3.01 billion yuan through the customs cross-border e-commerce management platform, an increase of 37.7%, driving the city’s exports by 2.5 percentage points.