Handan City's foreign trade import and export achieved a "good start" in the first quarter
The total value reached 6.74 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 42.2%
The reporter learned from Handan Customs that in the first quarter of this year, our city's foreign trade had a strong start and a good momentum. The growth rate of foreign trade import and export led the province, and the quality was steadily improved, achieving a "good start" in the first quarter.
In the first quarter of this year, the city's total foreign trade import and export value was 6.74 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 42.2%. The year-on-year growth rate ranked second in the province, and the growth rate was 27.2 percentage points higher than the province's. Among them, imports were 3.59 billion yuan, an increase of 143.5%, and the growth rate was 129.2 percentage points higher than that of the province. The import growth rate ranked first in the province.
In the first quarter, our city's import and export mainly showed several characteristics:
Foreign-invested enterprises have grown significantly, and bonded logistics methods have increased 25 times. In terms of the nature of the enterprises, the import and export of private enterprises was 3.67 billion yuan, an increase of 6.0%, accounting for 54.5% of the total import and export value; the import and export of state-owned enterprises was 1.25 billion yuan, an increase of 23.5%; the import and export of foreign-invested enterprises was 1.82 billion yuan, an increase of 5.8 times. In terms of trade methods, imports and exports through general trade were 6.44 billion yuan, an increase of 41.3%, accounting for 95.5% of the total import and export value; imports and exports through bonded logistics were 150 million yuan, an increase of 25 times. According to Handan Customs statistics, in the first quarter of this year, 327 new customs declaration units were registered in Handan's jurisdiction, and the number of foreign trade business entities exceeded 4,500.
Our city's trading partners have been diversified, with India becoming the largest trading partner, and imports and exports to ASEAN, Australia, and Brazil growing significantly. In the first quarter of this year, our city's import and export to India was 1.30 billion yuan, an increase of 1.1 times, accounting for 19.3% of our city's total import and export value; our city's import and export to ASEAN was 1.01 billion yuan, an increase of 96.0%, of which import and export to Vietnam and Thailand were 4.1%. billion and 270 million yuan, an increase of 3.8 times and 1.1 times; imports and exports to Australia were 860 million yuan, an increase of 57.4%; imports and exports to Brazil were 590 million yuan, an increase of 5.9 times. In addition, imports and exports to the EU were 570 million yuan, an increase of 7.3%.
Exports of mechanical and electrical products account for more than 30%, among which the export of fasteners has achieved outstanding results, and the export of agricultural products has a good momentum. The export of mechanical and electrical products was 1.05 billion yuan, accounting for 33.3% of the total export value. Among them, the export of fasteners was 360 million yuan, an increase of 40.1%; the export of steel products was 780 million yuan, accounting for 24.8% of the total export value; the export of agricultural products was 220 million yuan, an increase of 40.1%. 25.8%, of which the export of vegetables and edible fungi was 90 million yuan, an increase of 55.7%. During the same period, the export of textile yarns, fabrics and their products was 100 million yuan, an increase of 3.3%; the export of ceramic products was 40 million yuan, an increase of 40.6%.
The imported goods are mainly iron ore, and the import value of agricultural products has doubled. The import of iron ore and its concentrate was 2.80 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.6 times, accounting for 78.0% of the total import value; the import of agricultural products was 490 million yuan, an increase of 13.8 times.
Iron ore import data "reflowed" to a certain extent, driving the city's import growth rate to be the first in the province; exports of fasteners, agricultural products and ceramic products all achieved double-digit growth, and the results were gratifying; due to the exploration and innovation of Handan Customs last year, the "integration "Declaration and Distribution Management System" solves the problem of iron ore leaving Wu'an B-type bonded logistics center. In the first quarter of this year, our city's import and export through bonded logistics increased 25 times.
