According to Dalian Infobank, in 202208, CHINA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 550447.6695 million, and were up 4.00% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 7.11% at 314920.5046 million, and imports were up 0.11% at 235527.1650 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 79393.3396 million and up 35.16%.

During the current year until 202208, CHINA's total exports and imports of goods were 4193208.3356 million and were up 9.53% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 2381746.0797 million and up 13.77%; imports were 1811462.2559 million and up 4.41%. The total trade surplus was 570283.8238 million and up 59.01%.

If considering by country (region), UNITED STATES, SOUTH KOREA, JAPAN, TAIWAN, HONG KONG were CHINA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202208, CHINA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 515460.5729 million, 246399.3058 million, 239241.7614 million, 218490.0484 million, 193874.1831 million. These values correspond to 12.29%, 5.88%, 5.71%, 5.21%, 4.62% of CHINA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 9.64%, up 7.60%, down 1.18%, up 5.08%, down 12.15% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202208, CHINA and the top five trade partners UNITED STATES, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, VIETNAM are the top five countries/territories that CHINA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202208, CHINA's exports to these five countries/territories were 397658.0874 million, 189207.6802 million, 114436.7079 million, 109716.3660 million, 96234.8797 million. These values correspond to 16.70%, 7.94%, 4.80%, 4.61%, 4.04% of CHINA's exports and, respectively, were up 12.36%, down 11.58%, up 6.71%, up 16.83%, up 5.05% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202208, CHINA's exports to top five countries/territories TAIWAN, SOUTH KOREA, JAPAN, UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA are the top five countries/territories that CHINA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202208, CHINA's imports from these five countries/territories were 162150.6384 million, 136682.9398 million, 124805.0536 million, 117802.4855 million, 95865.1394 million. These values correspond to 8.95%, 7.55%, 6.89%, 6.50%, 5.29% of CHINA's total imports and, respectively, were up 2.88%, up 1.18%, down 7.45%, up 1.36%, down 15.33% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202208, the trade surplus of CHINA was mainly from UNITED STATES, HONG KONG, NETHERLANDS, INDIA, VIETNAM at 279855.6019 million, 184541.1774 million, 70029.5096 million, 66090.3833 million, 42378.9916 million, and up 17.74%, down 10.98%, up 30.62%, up 70.42%, up 22.54%. And the trade deficits were mainly from TAIWAN, CHINA, AUSTRALIA, BRAZIL, SAUDI ARABIA at 105811.2284 million, 82792.0619 million, 45541.2805 million, 32045.0710 million, 28808.8740 million, and down 1.39%, down 16.24%, down 37.25%, down 27.08%, up 87.22%.

Current year until 202208, CHINA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202208,  commodities with hs2 codes, 85, 84, 27, 26, 87, were CHINA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 1048692.7266 million, 512907.2838 million, 384191.4340 million, 159396.6812 million, 150036.2242 million, which were up 8.50%, up 2.95%, up 38.54%, down 18.60%, up 11.01% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 25.01%, 12.23%, 9.16%, 3.80%, 3.58% of CHINA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202208, 85, 84, 39, 87, 94 were CHINA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 620111.3743 million, 373292.0711 million, 97585.0708 million, 93956.4115 million, 87026.3743 million. These values correspond to 26.04%, 15.67%, 4.10%, 3.94%, 3.65% of CHINA's total exports and, respectively, were up 13.40%, up 7.72%, up 16.96%, up 23.43%, down 1.02% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202208, 85, 27, 26, 84, 71 were CHINA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 428581.3523 million, 347271.8560 million, 156709.2722 million, 139615.2127 million, 61054.9036 million. These values correspond to 23.66%, 19.17%, 8.65%, 7.71%, 3.37% of CHINA's total exports and, respectively, were up 2.12%, up 39.81%, down 18.73%, down 7.94%, up 32.22% comparing to the same period of last year.

Data Source: General Administration of Customs of China