Import and export value reaches 100 million yuan within one week of establishment of Shanghai Free Trade Zone

According to statistics from Shanghai Customs, in the first year since its establishment (data statistics for the whole month from October last year to September this year), the total import and export value of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone has reached 747.53 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.5%. It was 2 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of Shanghai’s foreign trade import and export during the same period, accounting for 26.4% of Shanghai’s total import and export value during the same period, and its proportion increased by 0.5 percentage points compared with the year before the listing.
Among them, exports were 196.5 billion yuan (accounting for 15.4% of Shanghai’s total export value), an increase of 10.3%, 9.5 percentage points higher than Shanghai’s overall export growth rate during the same period; imports were 551.03 billion yuan (accounting for 35.5% of Shanghai’s total import value). Growth of 5.2%.