02 Jun 2009
In March, the bilateral trade between China and the EU, the United States and Japan presented better performance than the general trade, with the year on year drop rate 1.6, 8.3 and 0.4 percentage points smaller than the decline of the country's total import and export.
The EU still maintained the first position of trade partner with China with the bilateral trade value totalling US$26.45 billion and accounting for 16.3% of China's total import and export. Of this, the export to the EU was US$17.21 billion, down 20.2% year on year, but up 27.8% month on month.
The United States was the second trade partner of China with the two-way trade of US$22.65 billion, down 12.6% year on year, but up 25.8% month on month. Export to the United States was US$16.45 billion, down 12.6% year on year, but up 33.3% month on month, and the import from the States was US$6.2 billion, down 12.7% year on year, but up 9.3% month on month.