Statistics

Beijing's foreign trade grows 46.7% in Jan-Sept

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-10-14 17:16

BEIJING - Beijing generated $221.8 billion in foreign trade in the first three quarters of this year, a growth of 46.7 percent?from the same period of last year, local customs house announced Thursday.

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The amount, which surpassed the city's total foreign trade volume of $214.8 billion for the whole of 2009, included $40.7 billion in export value, up 17.3 percent, and $181.1 billion in import value, up 55.4 percent.

Leading trade partners of Beijing included the European Union, ASEAN members, the United States and Japan.

The city's top export commodity was cellphone, and its top import commodity was crude oil.

From January to September, Beijing sold abroad 130 million cellphones, up 18.4 percent year-on-year, and bought 150 million tons of crude oil, up 26.2 percent year-on-year.