General Administration of Customs: The total value of Sino-US trade fell by 9% in the first half of the year.
The Information Office of the State Council will hold a press conference at 3 p.m. on Friday, 12 July 2019. Li Kuiwen, spokesman of the General Administration of Customs and Director of the Statistics and Analysis Department, will introduce the import and export situation in the first half of 2019 and answer questions from reporters.
Li Kuiwen said that in the first half of the year, China's total import and export value to the EU was 2.3 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.2%, accounting for 15.7% of our total foreign trade value. During the same period, the total value of Sino-US trade was 1.75 trillion yuan, down 9%, accounting for 12%.