China's total goods trade exceeds 14 trillion for January-April 2019, up 2.4% from a year ago - Chinese report

On the 9th, the General Administration of Customs announced that the total value of imports and exports of goods in the first four months of this year exceeded 14 trillion former, showing that foreign trade is maintaining a stable upward trend.
According to publicly available statistics, China's total merchandise trade imports and exports in the first four months of the year rose 2.4% year-on-year to 14.14 trillion yen.
Of this, exports increased 7.5% to 8.39 trillion formers (approximately 168.8 trillion yen), while imports decreased 4.2% to 5.75 trillion formers (approximately 115.7 trillion yen).
Among export and import goods, the increase in high-tech products is particularly notable. The value of exports and imports of high-tech products in the first four months of the year increased 7.4% to 1.52 trillion yen (approximately 30.6 trillion yen).
During the same period, the import and export volume of private foreign trade companies increased by 6.8% to 8.5 trillion former (approximately 162 trillion yen), accounting for 56.9% of China's total imports and exports.
By trade partner, exports and imports to neighboring countries rose 5.1% to 5.1 trillion former (approximately 102.6 trillion yen).
This is 1.6 percentage points higher than the previous quarter (January-March). Of these, ASEAN increased by 9.2% and the five Central Asian countries increased by 9.9%.
Meanwhile, the value of goods trade in April increased 5.6% year-on-year to 3.84 trillion yen (approximately 77.2 trillion yen).
Of this, exports increased 9.3% to 2.27 trillion formers (approximately 45.7 trillion yen), and imports increased 0.8% to 1.57 trillion formers (approximately 31.6 trillion yen). Growth in exports and imports in April
The rate is 4.3 percentage points higher than in the first quarter (January-March).