Customs General Administration: China'S Foreign Trade Has Broken $4 Trillion.

< p > an import declaration issued by the Ji'nan customs office in Laiwu to achieve the annual import and export value of US $4 trillion.

This declaration is part of a private enterprise whose imports are iron ore from Australia.

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< p > on the morning of January 10th, at the news conference of the new China office, "Zheng Yuesheng href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp "," Customs General Administration, "/a," director of the comprehensive press department, "said Zheng Yuesheng," in 2013, China surpassed the United States for the first time, ranking first in the global trade in goods. "

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< p > Zheng Yuesheng introduced that in 2013 China achieved a total import and export value of 25 trillion and 830 billion yuan (US $4 trillion and 160 billion), a 7.6% increase over the year after deducting exchange rate factors.

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< p > although the target of foreign trade growth was set at 8% at the beginning of 2013, this figure is still 1.4 percentage points higher than that in 2012.

In 2012, China's foreign trade import and export growth rate was only 6.2%, which was also lower than the 10% target set at the beginning of the year.

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< p > despite the fact that the expected growth rate has not been achieved for two consecutive years, the total value of imports and exports for the first time in 2013 has exceeded 4 trillion US dollars.

Among them, exports grew by 7.9%, imports increased by 7.3%, and trade surplus amounted to 1 trillion and 610 billion yuan (US $259 billion 750 million).

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< p > the current US foreign trade data for the whole year have not yet been released. However, according to the figures in the first 11 months of 2013, China is expected to overtake the US as the largest import and export country.

According to publicly available data, the total value of imports and exports of China's goods trade has exceeded US $192 billion in the first 10 months of 2013, up 7 percentage points from the United States.

From the data released by the US in November, the growth rate of import and export of goods trade is less than 1%.

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< p > the total value of imports and exports exceeds US $4 trillion, which marks a new step in the scale of China's foreign trade. However, Zheng Yuesheng reminds us that while expanding the development of foreign trade, we should shift more efforts to the quality and efficiency of foreign trade development.

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< p > 2013 < a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp >" foreign trade data < /a > shows that China's economic development depends on external demand is weakening, and foreign trade dependence has further dropped.

In the first three quarters of 2013, China's foreign trade dependency ratio was 49.3%, a 0.9 percentage point drop compared with the first half of 2013.

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< p > "this data shows that the mode of China's economic development is changing from external demand to domestic demand driven."

Zheng Yuesheng said.

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< p > it is worth noting that from the perspective of China's trade, the bilateral trade between China and the United States, the European Union and ASEAN has increased. The total value of bilateral trade between China and Japan has dropped by 5.1%, especially China's import to Japan has dropped by 8.7%.

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"P >" China and Japan "a href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp "> bilateral trade < /a > is a complicated reason. Some of the reasons I want to know are not necessary to further explain."

Zheng Yuesheng said.

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< p > for the possible changes in the foreign trade situation in 2014, Zheng said that the growth of China's foreign trade is not only facing positive factors such as international demand and improvement of domestic macro policy environment, but also restrictive factors such as rising cost elements and intensifying trade frictions.

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