The data issued by the General Administration of Customs (GAC) on September 10 indicated that in the first 8 months of the year, foreign trade import and export of China stood at USD1.87558t, up 40% from the same period last year.

Data showed that from January to August, export amounted to USD989.74b, up 35.5%; import USD885.84b, up 45.5% while the trade surplus reached USD103.9b, down 14.6%.

Customs statistics indicated that in August, import and export of China was USD258.57b, up 34.7%, of which export amounted to USD139.3b, up 34.4%, 3.7 percentage points slower than last month; import USD119.27b, up 35.2%, 12.5 percentage points faster than last month; and trade surplus on that current month USD20.03b, down 30.4% from a month earlier.