Today General Administration of Customs announced that China's trade surplus in September is $ 14.514 billion, the first nine months of cumulative trade surplus $ 107.098 billion. The total imports and exports amount is $ 324,832,000,000 in September, a decline of 1.2% comparing with August, an increase of 18.9% comparing the same time in 2010. The first nine months of total imports and exports totaled 2.677441 trillion U.S. dollars, up 24.6% comparing the same period of last year.
The export side, China's September exports $ 169.673 billion, a decline of 2.1% comparing with August, an increase of 17.1% comparing with Sept.2011. The import side, China's September total imports $ 155.159 billion, a decline of 0.2% comparing with August in 2011, an increase of 20.9% comparing with the same time in last year. The first nine months of total imports amounted to 1.285172 trillion U.S. dollars, up 26.7% comparing with Sept.2010.