In the first three quarters of this year, the total import and export value of our city’s foreign trade was 17.18 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.5%. Among them, exports were 14.37 billion yuan, an increase of 14.4%; imports were 2.81 billion yuan, a decrease of 10.2%.
In terms of trade mode, both processing trade and general trade achieved growth. In the first three quarters, the scale of our city’s main trade modes improved. Processing trade imports and exports were 10.3 billion yuan, an increase of 7.5%, accounting for 60% of our city’s total foreign trade value. Among them, exports were 8.42 billion yuan, an increase of 6.3%; imports were 1.88 billion yuan, an increase of 13.3%. In the same period, general trade imports and exports were 6.86 billion yuan, an increase of 12.5%, accounting for 39.9% of our city’s total foreign trade value. Among them, exports were 5.96 billion yuan, an increase of 28.3%; imports were 900 million yuan, a decrease of 37.8%.
In terms of export products, the export of LCD panels is booming. In the first three quarters, the city exported 7.15 billion yuan of mechanical and electrical products, an increase of 15.9%, accounting for 49.7% of the city’s total exports; among them, the export of LCD flat panel display modules was 2.16 billion yuan, an increase of 46.4%. Exports of toys were 1.62 billion yuan, an increase of 7.2%, accounting for 11.3% of the total export value.
From the perspective of imported products, integrated circuits and primary plastics continued to grow. In the first three quarters, the city imported 670 million yuan of integrated circuits, an increase of 9.1%, accounting for 23.7% of the total import value; imported primary plastics were 670 million yuan, an increase of 12.3%. In addition, imported coal was 250 million yuan, accounting for 9% of the total import value.
A relevant person in charge of Heyuan Customs said that it will continue to implement a series of measures to promote high-quality development of foreign trade, strengthen the construction of long-term mechanisms such as “customs chiefs contacting enterprises”, “customs chiefs delivering policies to the door”, and “zero problems” to serve enterprises, adhere to problem orientation, focus on promoting the quality and quantity of foreign trade, continue to optimize policy supply, support Heyuan in cultivating new momentum for foreign trade, and contribute to the customs’ strength to consolidate and enhance the positive trend of foreign trade recovery.