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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mishedlo who wrote (21090)	1/11/2005 10:46:50 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

Hi, Mish, they are from the official site of Ministry of Commerce of China. I do not see English version. But they are jpg files, so I will copy them here. Please keep in mind of something: these are the percent of both imports and exports. In terms of the US, bet. 60-70% were exports and only 40-30% were imports. And also, from 2002, the total trade of China increased very fast, but the trade with the US increased not as fast, that is why the US share is getting smaller. 2002 top 10 trading partners The 1st colume number is the total amount of trade in US$100 million, and the 2nd is the y-o-y rate of increase, the 3rd is the percent of the total trade amount, and the 4th is the y-o-y change of the percent of the total trade. The first colume of words are country name, you won't be able to read it and for both 2002 and 2003, Japan was the 1st big trading partner and the US was the 2nd. mofcom.gov.cn mofcom.gov.cn mofcom.gov.cn mofcom.gov.cn for 2003 top 10 trading partners, The 1st colume number is the total amount of trade in US$100 million, and the 2nd is the y-o-y rate of increase, the 3rd is the percent of the total trade amount, and the 4th is the y-o-y change of the percent of the total trade; mofcom.gov.cn mofcom.gov.cn for 2004 (Jan-Nov.) top 10 trading partners, EU became biggest, gcs.mofcom.gov.cn gcs.mofcom.gov.cn And this file is 2003 China's figure of trade surplus, the 2nd row was the US. for 2003, it was 58.61 billion, and for 2002 $42.72 billion, y-o-y increased for 37.2%. mofcom.gov.cn The US number for 2003 trade deficit with China was $124 billion, so the difference was as big $65.39 billion. And the main reason is that China's number discounted the parts imported from other countries while the US count everything on China's part. cbsnews.com