The major foreign trade province bravely took the lead. The reporter learned from Hangzhou Customs on the 13th that from January to August this year, the total import and export value of the province reached 3.12 trillion yuan, an increase of 18.8% year-on-year. Among them, exports were 2.31 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.6%; The import was 815.70 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.7%, and the scale of import and export, export and import ranked third, second and sixth in the country respectively. It is worth mentioning that from January to August, our province contributed 19.7% and 21.2% to the national import and export growth rate, ranking first in the country.
Trade in traditional markets has grown steadily, and emerging markets have developed strongly. From January to August, Zhejiang’s imports and exports to the top three trade markets of the EU, the United States and ASEAN increased by 21.0%, 17.6% and 18.7% year-on-year, respectively, accounting for 16.5%, 14.6% and 13.3% of the total import and export value of the province. In the same period, imports and exports to countries along the “Belt and Road” amounted to 1.12 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.7%, accounting for 35.7%; The import and export of RCEP member countries was 763.22 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.2%, accounting for 24.4%.
High-tech products performed well, with exports accounting for more than 10%. From January to August, our province exported 232.85 billion yuan of high-tech products, a year-on-year increase of 39.8%, driving the province’s exports to increase by 3.5 percentage points, accounting for 10.1% of the province’s total export value. Among them, the export of solar cells reached 58.73 billion yuan, an increase of 1.6 times.
The main body of foreign trade has strong vitality, and the proportion of independent brand exports has increased. From January to August, the import and export of private enterprises in the province reached 2.42 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22.7%; Foreign-invested enterprises imported and exported 463.97 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.3%, accounting for 14.8%. Specialized and special new “little giant” enterprises continued to make efforts, and exports increased by 45.3% year-on-year, 23.7 percentage points higher than the overall exports. The export of self-owned brand goods increased by 34.6% year-on-year, accounting for 16.1% of the overall export, and the proportion increased by 1.6 percentage points.