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by Eduardo Petazze
Last updated: January 13, 2016
In 2015 foreign trade in mainland China fell -8.0% from +3.5% growth in 2014.
By 2016 it is estimated that China's foreign trade will decline -8.7% (our previous estimate -9.7%) and -10.1% in 2017
Monthly series
General Administration of Customs monthly release the foreign trade situation.
The following summary is based on the historical data of the National Bureau of Statistics of China, and last month from the Customs data.
Our estimate for 2016 / 2017 and seasonally adjusted data is included.
Balance
Annual
23,094
30,339
25,377
32,836
102,105
177,531
261,894
296,954
198,071
184,537
157,851
232,765
261,362
380,117
602,360
747,643
888,754
Imports
Balance
Month
Y/Y
Month
177,901 -2.31% 49,612
140,226 -19.99% 60,032
108,572 -20.80% 60,619
141,487 -12.88%
3,081
142,196 -16.40% 34,134
131,190 -17.78% 58,867
145,437 -6.31% 46,539
152,072 -8.16% 43,025
136,629 -13.87% 60,240
145,213 -20.53% 60,342
130,752 -19.02% 61,643
142,718 -9.20% 53,745
164,096 -7.76% 60,093
119,324 -14.91% 73,428
92,488 -14.81% 74,523
120,009 -15.18% 15,148
Imports
Annual
Y/Y
243,567
8.21%
295,303 21.24%
413,096 39.89%
560,811 35.76%
660,222 17.73%
791,794 19.93%
956,261 20.77%
1,131,916 18.37%
1,003,876 -11.31%
1,393,909 38.85%
1,741,430 24.93%
1,817,344
4.36%
1,949,300
7.26%
1,963,105
0.71%
1,680,588 -14.39%
1,436,428 -14.53%
1,183,464 -17.61%
Trade by country, last month published, in ten thousand yuan (Customs data)
(10,000) RMB
TOTAL
Hong Kong
India
Japan
Korea
Taiwan
ASEAN
Indonesia
Malaysia
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Vietnam
Other ASEAN
European Union
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Italy
Netherlands
Other EU
The Russian Federation
South Africa
Brazil
Canada
United States
Australia
New Zealand
Other
unit
(10,000 tons)
(10,000 tons)
(10,000 tons)
(10,000 tons)
(10,000 tons)
(10,000 tons)
(10,000 tons)
(10,000 tons)
(10,000 tons)
(10,000 tons)
(10,000 tons)
ton
(10,000 tons)
(10,000 tons)
(10,000 tons)
(10,000 m3)
(10,000 tons)
(10,000 tons)
(10,000 tons)
(10,000 tons)
units
Million units
Million units
Million units
(10,000 units)
(10,000 units)
December 2015
Jan/Dec 2015
Jan/Dec 2014
2015 YoY
Quantity
Money
Quantity
Money
Quantity
Money
Quantity Price Money
36
277,357
430
3,629,977
384
3,085,790
11.98
5.05 17.64
208
394,951
3,270
5,818,068
1,951
3,816,642
67.6 -9.05 52.44
912 2,282,666
8,169 21,570,755
7,140 24,726,630
14.4 -23.75 -12.76
77
333,935
676
3,111,856
650
3,641,582
4.1 -17.83 -14.55
9,627 3,146,855
95,272 35,736,847
93,234 57,354,927
2.2 -39.02 -37.69
148 1,184,652
1,329 11,921,459
1,181 13,178,389
12.6 -19.61
-9.54
1,764
566,399
20,406
7,491,762
29,120 13,660,467
-29.9 -21.74 -45.16
3,319 6,700,031
33,550 83,327,680
30,837 140,152,378
8.8 -45.35 -40.54
284
752,217
2,990
8,861,615
3,000 14,399,528
-0.3 -38.25 -38.46
119
177,002
1,540
3,103,098
1,771
6,642,649
-13.0 -46.28 -53.29
348
974,509
3,207
9,442,617
2,722 11,390,405
17.8 -29.64 -17.10
12,208 1,367,663 106,064 12,649,497 112,385 11,732,165
-5.6 14.24
7.82
146
306,547
1,114
2,439,859
955
2,055,787
16.7
1.74 18.68
230 2,398,056
2,610 27,931,710
2,535 31,670,928
2.9 -14.34 -11.81
59
525,499
472
4,855,787
409
5,477,179
15.3 -23.18 -11.35
658
839,962
7,115
9,650,634
7,684 12,203,291
-7.4 -14.59 -20.92
171
694,882
1,984
7,918,154
1,796
7,409,167
10.4 -3.26
6.87
1,029,391
11,834,809
12,513,981
-5.43
118
772,764
1,278
8,892,590
1,443 11,009,953
-11.4 -8.80 -19.23
53 1,763,850
481 18,036,185
482 21,847,764
-0.3 -17.27 -17.45
421 1,189,071
4,473 13,630,597
4,455 16,895,292
0.4 -19.65 -19.32
6,279
494,773
90,910
5,359,712 106,132
6,666,152
-14.3 -6.14 -19.60
6,169 1,776,852
72,032 17,184,112
76,511 18,760,659
-5.9 -2.71
-8.40
62,499 1,785,366 512,352 13,947,612 528,097 14,461,807
-3.0 -0.59
-3.56
31,401 15,407,668 313,996 143,034,690 285,352 133,659,557
10.0 -2.75
7.01
11 2,624,727
110 27,871,295
142 37,338,057
-22.8 -3.64 -25.35
1,766,866
17,102,869
19,818,464
-13.70
47,403 1,986,391
68,274 15,197,386
10,771 15,945,246
533.9 -84.96
-4.69
29,254 2,367,716 282,988 24,663,929 297,835 26,882,587
-5.0 -3.44
-8.25
7,024,374
71,944,724
74,649,808
-3.62
51,854,697
501,320,374
524,934,126
-4.50
36,223,708
340,941,768
338,654,044
0.68