□Zibo Daily/Zibo Evening News/Expo News
Reporter Cui Xiaolei Correspondent Liu Kuo
November 17, the reporter learned from Zibo Customs that the total import and export volume of Zibo City in the first 10 months of this year was 95.93 billion yuan. Among them, imports and exports to other member countries of the G20 (G20) were 61.62 billion yuan, accounting for 64.2% of the total foreign trade import and export value of Zibo.
Zhang Li, head of the second section of the Zibo Customs Comprehensive Business, said that the epidemic has restricted logistics and transportation to a certain extent and reduced port operation efficiency. At the same time, the major overseas economies have successively launched hikes in , and the tightening of monetary policy has greatly suppressed the growth of overseas demand. However, the pace of transformation of new and old kinetic energy in the papermaking industry has accelerated, and the layout has been increased, processes have been improved, and production has increased. The demand for pulp imports has increased significantly. In the first 10 months, Zibo City imported 3.8 billion yuan of pulp, and increased by 102.9% year-on-year. At the same time, aluminum ore sand has recently been concentrated in Hong Kong for delivery. In the first 10 months, our city imported 2.16 billion yuan of aluminum ore sand, an increase of 55% year-on-year. The two drove the city's imports to increase by 6.7 percentage points during the same period.
reporter learned that in the first 10 months of this year, our city's general trade accounted for the main body, and processing trade increased slightly, among which the import value of foreign trade reached the highest this year, with increasing by 32.9% month-on-month. General trade means import and export is 81.72 billion yuan; processing trade means import and export is 8.26 billion yuan. State-owned enterprises have strong foreign trade vitality, with imports and exports of state-owned enterprises of 5.36 billion yuan in the first 10 months. The export data of basic organic chemicals, textile fabrics, medicinal materials and medicines are outstanding, among which the export values of basic organic chemicals, textile fabrics, medicinal materials and medicines are 8.62 billion yuan, 3.21 billion yuan, and 2.71 billion yuan, respectively.
"Zibo's top three trading partners are ASEAN , Russia and the United States, among which ASEAN is the largest trading partner of Zibo City, accounting for 23.9% of the overall import and export." Zhang Zhimei, deputy director of Zibo Customs, introduced that in the first 10 months, Russia was Zibo's largest market for trade with other G20 members, with an import and export value of 12.42 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 50.3%, accounting for 20.2% of the total import and export value to other G20 members. Imports and exports to the United States, EU , South Korea, and Indonesia Indonesia were 8.99 billion yuan, 8.59 billion yuan, 5.05 billion yuan and 5.04 billion yuan respectively.
In our city's exports to other G20 members, basic organic chemicals account for nearly 20% of the total, reaching 6.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 35.3%. In addition, ceramic products, textile fabrics, steel and food exports increased by 6.1%, 55.8%, 10.6% and 21.7% year-on-year respectively.
In addition, in terms of exports to other member countries of RCEP, Zibo Customs issued a total of 4,042 RCEP export certificates of origin in the first 10 months of this year, involving an export value of 1.24 billion yuan, and can obtain tariff concessions of more than 12 million yuan from other member countries of RCEP. It mainly involves traditional Zibo products such as chemicals, textiles, and ceramics, which promotes Zibo's exports to basic organic chemicals, textile fabrics and ceramic products to other RCEP member countries in the same period, increasing by 89%, 53%, and 6.7% year-on-year respectively.