according to the statistics of weifang customs, the city's foreign trade import and export continued to grow steadily in the first five months, with a total import and export value of 69.96 billion yuan, an increase of 7.4% over the same period last year. it ranks third in the province after qingdao and yantai, and the import and export growth rate is 0.5 percentage points higher than the average growth rate of the province. among them, the export was 43.67 billion yuan, an increase of 10.3%; the import was 26.28 billion yuan, an increase of 2.8%; the foreign trade surplus reached 17.39 billion yuan, and the proportion of import and export difference increased by 16.6% year-on-year
in the first five months, private enterprises remained the main body in the city's foreign trade import and export, with an import and export value of 56.49 billion yuan, an increase of 12.4%, accounting for 80.5% of the city's total value of import and export enterprises. the import and export value of general trade reached 47.28 billion yuan, accounting for 67.6% of the city's total import and export value in the same period; the import and export of processing trade reached 16.54 billion yuan, an increase of 20.5%; the import and export of bonded logistics reached 6.09 billion yuan, an increase of 88.2%. in terms of trading partners, the eu, asean, the united states and japan are the main trading partners of our city, and the total import and export value accounts for 46.1% of the total import and export value of our city. among them, the eu is the largest trading partner of our city, with a total import and export of 8.95 billion yuan, an increase of 9.6%. exports of traditional commodities continued to grow. among them, mechanical and electrical products were the largest export commodities in our city, with an export value of 11.11 billion yuan, an increase of 34.3%; the export of textile and clothing reached 8.75 billion yuan, an increase of 11.1%; the export of auto parts reached 4.12 billion yuan, an increase of 23.8%. in addition, crude oil imports also increased significantly, with the import value reaching 13.8 billion yuan, an increase of 12.5%. at the same time, the total value of imports and exports to countries along the "the belt and road" reached 22.8 billion yuan, an increase of 9.3%, accounting for 32.6%
(reporter zhang xili)