China's foreign trade up 7.6 pct in 2013

English.news.cn   2014-01-10

BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- China's total exports and imports surpassed 4 trillion U.S. dollars for the first time to reach 4.16 trillion U.S. dollars in 2013, up 7.6 percent year on year, customs data have shown.
The growth rate, however, is slightly lower than the government's full-year target of 8 percent, published in the beginning of 2013.
China's exports rose 7.9 percent year on year to 2.21 trillion U.S. dollars in 2013, while imports increased 7.3 percent to 1.95 trillion U.S. dollars, customs data revealed on Friday.
The foreign trade surplus widened to 259.75 billion U.S. dollars in 2013, an increase of 12.8 percent from a year earlier, said Zheng Yuesheng, spokesman for the General Administration of Customs.
In December, China's foreign trade value hit a new high of 389.8 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 6.2 percent from a year earlier.

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