Sichuan's total import and export value of goods trade in the first eight months reached 724.32 billion yuan, a record high for the same period in history

China News Service, Chengdu, September 9 (Reporter Zhang Lang) Chengdu Customs released statistics on the 9th: In the first eight months of this year, the total import and export value of Sichuan's goods trade was 724.32 billion yuan, a record high for the same period in history, ranking ninth in the country and first in the west, with a year-on-year increase of 6.1% (the same below). Among them, exports were 394.78 billion yuan, a decrease of 3.7%; imports were 329.54 billion yuan, a record high for the same period in history, an increase of 20.7%.

In the first eight months, Sichuan's imports and exports through processing trade were 310.15 billion yuan, a decrease of 9%, accounting for 42.8% of the province's total foreign trade value (the same below); imports and exports through general trade were 289.7 billion yuan, an increase of 28.7%, accounting for 40%, and the proportion increased by 7 percentage points compared with the same period last year; bonded logistics imports and exports were 103.18 billion yuan, an increase of 19.6%, accounting for 14.2%.

The number of foreign trade entities with actual performance exceeded 10,000 for the first time in history during the same period. In the first eight months, Sichuan had 10,114 companies with import and export performance, a record high for the same period in history, an increase of 18.5%. The import and export of foreign-invested enterprises was 409.16 billion yuan, an increase of 1.2%, accounting for 56.5%; the import and export of private enterprises was 269.4 billion yuan, an increase of 13.1%, accounting for 37.2%, and the proportion increased by 2.3 percentage points compared with the same period last year; the import and export of state-owned enterprises was 45.59 billion yuan, an increase of 13.6%, accounting for 6.3%.

ASEAN is Sichuan's largest trade market. In the first eight months, Sichuan's imports and exports to ASEAN were 160.63 billion yuan, an increase of 7.7%, accounting for 22.2%; Sichuan's imports and exports to the United States were 111.58 billion yuan, a decrease of 1.2%, accounting for 15.4%; Sichuan's imports and exports to the EU were 111.17 billion yuan, an increase of 4.2%, accounting for 15.3%. During the same period, imports and exports to countries co-building the “Belt and Road” were 314.36 billion yuan, an increase of 3.4%, accounting for 43.4%; imports and exports to other RCEP member states were 236.9 billion yuan, an increase of 5.5%, accounting for 32.7%.