According to the Custom’s statistics, from January to June this year, import and export of foreign-invested enterprises totaled US$296.811 billion, an increase of 45.93 per cent over the same period of last year, 6.82 per cent higher than the growth rate (39.11per cent) of the country in the same period, accounting for 56.75 per cent of the total import and export of the country.
From January to June, 2004, export of foreign-invested enterprises totaled US$147.265 billion, a 43.68 percent increase over the same period of last year, 7.98 per cent higher than the growth rate (35.70per cent) of the country in the same period, accounting for 57.06 per cent of the total export value of the whole country, which was 3.17 per cent increase of the country’s total export.
From January to June, import of foreign-invested enterprises recorded US$ 149.546 billion, up by 48.22 per cent increase over the same period of last year, 5.62 per cent higher than the growth rate (42.60 per cent) of the country in the same period, according for 56.45 per cent of the country’s total. Of that, foreign-invested enterprises’ import of equipment for investment projects totaled US$ 14.645 billion, up by 51.14 percent over the same period of last year, accounting for 9.79per cent of their total import, 0.19 per cent slightly up in the proportion of their total import.
In June, the surplus of foreign-invested enterprises reached US$279 million, deducted US$2.890 billon from foreign-invested enterprises’ import of equipment for investment projects, the net trade surplus of foreign-invested enterprises reached US$3.169 billion.