China's foreign trade between January and may this year was released by the general administration of customs on oct 10.According to customs statistics, the total value of China's imports and exports in the first five months was us $1,1000.9 billion, an increase of 44 percent over the same period last year.Of this total, exports totaled us $567.74 billion, up 33.2 percent.Imports totaled us $532.35 billion, up 57.5%.The trade surplus was $35.39 billion, down 59.9 percent.

China's foreign trade between January and may this year was released by the general administration of customs on oct 10.According to customs statistics, the total value of China's imports and exports in the first five months was us $1,1000.9 billion, an increase of 44 percent over the same period last year.Of this total, exports totaled us $567.74 billion, up 33.2 percent.Imports totaled us $532.35 billion, up 57.5%.The trade surplus was $35.39 billion, down 59.9 percent.

In the first five months of this year, China's import and export of general trade totaled us $550.43 billion, up 46.9%, 2.9 percentage points higher than the growth rate of China's import and export in the same period.Of this, exports totaled us $256.15 billion, up 32.5%.Imports totaled us $294.28 billion, up 62.2 percent, 4.7 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of imports in the same period.The general trade deficit was $38.13 billion, compared with a surplus of $11.96 billion in the same period of 2009.During the same period, China's import and export of processing trade reached us $429.76 billion, up 39.4 percent.Exports totaled us $269.92 billion, up 32.9 percent.Imports totaled us $159.84 billion, up 51.8 percent.The trade surplus under processing trade increased by 12.6% to us $110.08 billion, equivalent to 3.1 times of the total trade surplus in the same period.

In the first five months of this year, China's bilateral trade with the eu totaled $177.49 billion, up 37.4 percent.During the same period, the total value of bilateral trade between China and t