My country's exports of metalworking machine tools grew even faster in the first half of the year.

According to customs data, in the first half of 2015, my country's total import and export volume was 11.53 trillion yuan, down 6.9% from the same period last year (the same below). Among them, exports amounted to 6.57 trillion yuan, an increase of 0.9%; imports amounted to 4.96 trillion yuan, a decrease of 15.5%; and the trade surplus was 1.61 trillion yuan, an increase of 1.5 times.
In June, my country's total import and export volume was 2.07 trillion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 1.9%. Among them, exports were worth 1.17 trillion yuan, an increase of 2.1%; imports were worth 890.67 billion yuan, a decrease of 6.7%; and the trade surplus was 284.2 billion yuan, an increase of 45%.
The structure of our country's exports continues to be optimized. Exports of mechanical and electrical products and traditional labour-intensive products increased, with some high-end products experiencing rapid growth. In the first half of the year, my country's exports of mechanical and electrical products reached 3.78 trillion yuan, an increase of 3%, accounting for 57.6% of my country's total exports during the same period. Among them, exports of products such as mobile phones, rail transit equipment, metal processing machine tools, medical instruments and equipment, and textile machinery grew faster.
The above situation shows that in the first half of this year, my country's foreign trade market has made new progress in diversification, the regional layout has become more reasonable, the terms of trade have improved, and the trade methods, trade entities and the structure of imported and exported goods have been optimized. At the same time, however, we must recognize that there are still some difficulties in the development of our foreign trade. For example, in the first half of the year, my country's bilateral trade with the EU and Japan was 1.67 trillion yuan and 832.02 billion yuan respectively, down 6.8% and 10.6% respectively. The import and export volumes of foreign-invested enterprises and state-owned enterprises were 5.42 trillion yuan and 1.97 trillion yuan respectively, down 4.8% and 14% respectively. Processing trade imports and exports were worth 3.58 trillion yuan, down 8.6%. In addition, in June this year, China's foreign trade exports index was 34.8, down 0.2 from May, indicating that export pressure will remain high in the next two to three months.