China's general administration of customs, according to the foreign trade data published 8, the first 10 months of this year, China's foreign trade import and export value of RMB 21.16 trillion ($3.4 trillion), up 7.6% from a year earlier.

The general administration of customs release 8 January 2013 to October in foreign trade import and export situation. According to statistics, the first 10 months of this year, China's foreign trade import and export value of RMB 21.16 trillion ($3.4 trillion), excluding currency factors year-on-year growth of 7.6%. Exports of 11.2 trillion yuan ($1.8 trillion), up 7.8%; Imported 9.96 trillion yuan ($1.6 trillion), up 7.3%. Trade surplus of 1.25 trillion yuan ($200.46 billion), expanding by 12%.

Chinese commerce ministry spokesman Shen Danyang has previously said that targets set by the ministry of commerce "twelfth five-year" plan for the total import and export grew by an average of 10% a year. The previous two years to achieve 14% annual growth, in the first half of this year has achieved 8.6% growth, finally down the average growth rate of two and a half years, significantly higher than the expected goal. Shen Danyang predicts that China's import and export scale or will for the first time this year the world's first.

Statistics show that in October, China import and export value of RMB 2.09 trillion ($339.7 billion), up 6.5% from a year earlier. Exports of 1.14 trillion yuan ($185.4 billion), up 5.6%; Imported 0.95 trillion yuan ($154.3 billion), up 7.6%. The trade surplus of 192.38 billion yuan ($31.1 billion), narrowed by 3.3%.