Footwear Exports Rose In Hunan In March

　　据长沙海关统计，3月份我省进出口额9.9亿美元，同比增长30.7%，环比增长16.1%。今年以来，我省外贸回暖迹象逐步显现，一季度，全省外贸额27.4亿美元，同比增长3成。

Processing trade continued to develop rapidly.

After processing trade reached a record high of US $120 million in February, processing trade continued to grow rapidly in March, and the foreign trade volume in the single month was US $110 million, up 59.3% over the same period last year.

In labour intensive commodities, the export of textiles, clothing and footwear has maintained a relatively good growth momentum, and the export of household ceramics has increased slightly, and the export of fireworks and firecrackers has declined a lot.

The volume of trade with major trade markets has recovered or exceeded the level of the same period in 2008, but there is a big gap in exports to Hongkong and Korea.

The strong rebounding of Hongkong exports, but there is still a big gap compared with 2008, mainly due to the recent adjustment of the export tax rebate policy of silver in recent years, the export has been restrained, and the decline of the export of South Korea by 38.7% is mainly due to a sharp decline in the export of steel.

The international financial crisis has provided a good market environment for our province to import key equipment, important parts, and so on, directly pulling the rapid recovery of imports from the EU and Japan.

While iron ore imports have increased significantly, the market share has gradually shifted from Australia to South Africa and Brazil.

Private enterprises accounted for more than half of the total export volume of the province, and the export of state-owned enterprises narrowed. The import and export of foreign investment enterprises continued to accelerate development, and the export of mechanical and electrical and hi-tech products increased rapidly.

In the 1 quarter, the export of mechanical and electrical products in our province was 500 million US dollars, an increase of 45.4%; the export of new and high technology products was 97 million 730 thousand US dollars, an increase of 76.6%; in terms of imports, the imports of other products showed a rapid growth trend except for the decline of zinc ore ores and pulp imports.