“This year is really a magical year. In February and March, we were sad. Now we are still sad, but the content of sorrow has changed 180 degrees.” On September 9, Wang Ji, director of export documents of Zhuoli Electric Appliance Group Co., Ltd., looked at the newly released export data and smiled from ear to ear.
According to her introduction, Zhuoli Electric mainly produces small household appliances. Before, Wang Jizhen was worried that there was no order, and the company might not be able to support it. However, I didn’t expect that the demand for small household appliances in the United States has increased greatly recently, and the steam mop produced by the company has become an “explosion” because of its sterilization function. Now he is worried about how to digest the skyrocketing orders every day.
Like Zhuoli Electric, the orders of many foreign trade enterprises have also exploded. From January to August this year, Ningbo’s foreign trade import and export achieved a red line.
According to the statistics of Ningbo Customs, from January to August, the total import and export volume of Ningbo’s foreign trade was 616.3 billion yuan, an increase of 2.4% compared with the same period last year. Among them, imports were 212.38 billion yuan, up 2.2%, and exports were 403.92 billion yuan, up 2.5%.
From a single month, Ningbo’s foreign trade import and export has ushered in a “tipping point”. In August this year, Ningbo’s import and export volume reached 89.67 billion yuan, an increase of 12.3%, which was 4.3 percentage points higher than the growth rate of 8% in July. Among them, imports were 28.6 billion yuan, up 9%, and exports were 61.07 billion yuan, up 13.9%. The growth rate of exports was 11.5 percentage points higher than that in July.
“From the specific data in August, China’s foreign trade import and export has continued the good momentum since July, which is an outstanding achievement in the case that the overseas epidemic situation is still grim.” The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce said.
It is understood that on the whole, with the continuous improvement of the epidemic prevention and control situation in our city and the steady progress of enterprises’ resumption of production and work, Ningbo’s foreign trade enterprises have generally shown great resilience, and the backlog of export orders due to the postponement of resumption of work in the early stage has also been delivered one after another. At the same time, with the gradual recovery of production and life, the consumption power of residents in our city has begun to be released, consumer confidence has been continuously enhanced, and the business environment has been continuously optimized, so that the foreign trade situation has maintained steady growth.
Among them, private enterprises are still strong, and they are the main force of the city’s foreign trade import and export. From January to August this year, the total import and export volume totaled 436.75 billion yuan, an increase of 8%, accounting for 70.9% of the city’s total import and export volume in the same period.
The European Union (excluding Britain), the United States and ASEAN are still the top three trading partners of our city. In the first eight months of this year, Ningbo imported and exported 110.88 billion yuan, 106.56 billion yuan and 68.42 billion yuan to the European Union (excluding Britain), the United States and ASEAN respectively, up by 4.1%, 14.3% and 10.2% respectively, accounting for 46.4% of the total foreign trade value of our city in the same period.
From the perspective of export commodities, mechanical and electrical products and labor-intensive products sit firmly on the “throne” of major export commodities. From January to August, Ningbo exported 217.64 billion yuan of mechanical and electrical products, an increase of 0.6%, accounting for 53.9% of the city’s total exports in the same period; The export of labor-intensive products was 115.87 billion yuan, an increase of 9.3%, accounting for 28.7% of the city’s total export in the same period.
Imports of mechanical and electrical products, high-tech products and some bulk commodities increased. Imported mechanical and electrical products reached 35.04 billion yuan, up by 5.2%; Imported high-tech products reached 23.93 billion yuan, an increase of 9.1%; Imports of unwrought copper and copper products were 19.68 billion yuan, up 71.3%, and imports of metal ores and ore were 18.9 billion yuan, up 11.2%. Imported agricultural products reached 14.55 billion yuan, up by 25.2%.
With the acceleration of economic recovery in various countries and the gradual recovery of external demand, the person in charge predicted that Ningbo’s foreign trade situation is expected to continue to maintain a steady and rising development trend in the second half of the year.
“With the emergence of new online formats and new models, foreign trade enterprises are also facing new opportunities for reform and development. Therefore, for foreign trade enterprises, they should take the initiative to seek change and actively expand emerging fields in order to seek new development. ” Insiders pointed out that foreign trade enterprises can especially continue to explore the markets of countries along the “the belt and road initiative”, countries that have free trade agreements with China, and relevant countries that are relatively controllable by the epidemic, so as to further explore new growth points in the foreign trade field.
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(Contributed by Ningbo Municipal Commission of Commerce)