According to China's General Administration of Customs statistics, from January to August this year, China's foreign trade import and export value of 1.33866 trillion U.S. dollars accumulated over the same period last year (the same below) decreased 22.4%. Which exports 730.74 billion U.S. dollars, down 22.2%; imports 607.92 billion U.S. dollars, down 22.7%. The accumulated trade surplus of 122.82 billion U.S. dollars, by 19%.

Customs statistics show that in August month, China's foreign trade value of 191.7 billion U.S. dollars, of which export value of 103.7 billion U.S. dollars, the value of exports stable at 100 billion U.S. dollars for two consecutive months above; imports 88 billion U.S. dollars. On a seasonally adjusted imports and exports in August, exports and imports were up 2.3% compared with rings, 3.4% and 1%.

In exports, the main labor-intensive exports fell significantly less than the overall level of exports during the period. Customs statistics show that the first 8 months of this year, China's main labor-intensive exports fell year on year were less than the overall decline in the level of 22.2%, of which furniture .