In the first seven months of this year, the import and export of Zhejiang Yiwu foreign trade exceeded 300 billion yuan

Yiwu, Aug. 25-the reporter learned from the Yiwu customs, which belongs to the Hangzhou customs, that in the first seven months of this year, the total value of imports and exports in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, totaled 321.1 billion yuan, up 19.7 percent year on year. Exports totaled 283.72 billion yuan, up 16.1 percent, and imports totaled 37.38 billion yuan, up 57.4 percent.

The 19th Hangzhou Asian Games is approaching. Earlier, Nepalese buyer Sijan Baniya ordered 15,000 medals at a shop in Yiwu International Trade City.

“There has been a lot of interest in sports recently, and the demand for medals is much higher than in the past,” he said. In the first seven months of this year, Yiwu’s imports and exports to Africa totaled 59.20 billion yuan, up 31.6 percent year-on-year, and to Latin totaled 49.42 billion yuan, up 32.7 percent year-on-year.

In addition, imports and exports to India and Saudi Arabia totaled 15.39 billion yuan and 8.06 billion yuan respectively, up 11.3 percent and 54.6 percent year-on-year, while those to countries and regions along the “Belt and Road” routes totaled 119.64 billion yuan over the same period, imports and exports to RCEP countries totaled 45.15 billion yuan, up 1.4 percent year-on-year. During the summer vacation, music festivals and other performances at home and abroad“Heat up” and continue to promote cultural consumption, Yiwu many businesses received fluorescent sticks, clappers orders.

In the first seven months of this year, Yiwu exported 113.12 billion yuan of labor-intensive products, up 21.1 percent year on year, including 30.55 billion yuan of plastic products, up 27.2 percent year on year, according to data. In addition, in the first 7 months of this year, Yiwu market procurement and export dominated, general trade import and export growth is stable. Yiwu exported 217.46 billion yuan through procurement trade, up 19.5 percent year-on-year, and imported and exported 83.63 billion yuan through general trade, up 12.5 percent year-on-year.