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In January this year, affected by the Spring Festival holiday, Shanghai's import and export fell by 5.3%. In February, it "turned from negative to positive", with an increase of 8.2% in the month. The year-on-year growth rate rose to 9.1% in March.
In the first quarter, there were 44,000 foreign trade companies with import and export performance in Shanghai, an increase of 1.2%. Among them, the import and export of private enterprises was 315.98 billion yuan, an increase of 14.1%, accounting for 30.2% of the total import and export value, an increase of 2.8 percentage points compared with the same period last year; the import and export of foreign-invested enterprises was 615.06 billion yuan, a decrease of 2.6%, accounting for 58.7%; state-owned enterprises Import and export was 114.16 billion yuan, an increase of 11.8%, accounting for 10.9%.
The import and export of general trade is dominant, and the proportion of bonded logistics import and export has increased. In the first quarter, the import and export of general trade in Shanghai was 620.57 billion yuan, an increase of 7.7%, accounting for 59.3% of the total import and export value. Among them, exports were 221.12 billion yuan, an increase of 3.6%; imports were 399.45 billion yuan, an increase of 10.2%. During the same period, the import and export of bonded logistics was 275.57 billion yuan, an increase of 13%, accounting for 26.3%, an increase of 2.2 percentage points over the same period last year.
The EU is the largest trading partner, accounting for more than one-third of imports and exports to other RCEP member countries. In the first quarter, Shanghai’s import and export to the EU, its largest trading partner, was 212.4 billion yuan, an increase of 8.2%, accounting for 20.3% of the total import and export value; import and export to ASEAN, the United States, and Japan were 137.59 billion yuan, 118.04 billion yuan, and 98.02 billion yuan respectively. Yuan. During the same period, imports and exports to other RCEP member countries increased by 3.6%, accounting for 33.6%; imports and exports to countries along the “Belt and Road” increased by 2.3%, accounting for 22.4%.