According to the Customs’ statistics, Jan to May, import and export of foreign-invested enterprises totaled US$240.642billion, an increase of 43.73 per cent over the same period of last year, 6.65 per cent higher than the growth rate (37.17 per cent) of the country in the same period, accounting for 56.78 per cent of the total import and export of the country.

Jan to May, 2004, export of foreign-invested enterprises totaled US$119.041 billion, a 41.78 per cent increase over the same period of last year, 8.38 per cent higher than the growth rate (33.40per cent) of the country in the same period, accounting for 57.34 per cent of the total export value of the whole country, which was 3.47 per cent increase in the proportion of the country’s total export.

Jan to May, import of foreign-invested enterprises recorded US$121.601 billion, up by 45.68 per cent over the same period of last year, 4.68per cent higher than the growth rate (41.00 per cent) of the total import in the country, accounting for 56.23 per cent of the country’s total. Of that, foreign-invested enterprises’ import of equipment for investment projects totaled US$11.755 billion, up by 45.39 per cent over the same period of last year, accounting for 9.67 per cent of their total import, 0.02 per cent lower in the proportion of their total import.

In May, trade surplus of foreign-invested enterprises reached US$199 million, deducted US$2.380 billion from foreign-invested enterprises’ import of equipment for investment projects, the net trade surplus of foreign-invested enterprises reached US$2.579 billion.