Feng Yangwen: Monthly Analysis of International Trade and Shipping Market (Simplified Version)

Feng Yangwen: Monthly Analysis of the International Trade and Shipping Market (Simplified Version)
1. The year-on-year growth rate of China's exports slowed down in May
. From January to May 2021, China's total import and export trade volume was 2.270252 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 37.74%; the total export trade volume was 1.237854 trillion U.S. dollars, up 39.92% year-on-year; the total import trade was 1,032.398 billion U.S. dollars, up 35.20% year-on-year.
From the perspective of trading partners, from January to May, the import and export between my country and ASEAN increased by 38.4% year-on-year, the import and export with the EU increased by 38.5% year-on-year, the import and export with the United States increased by 52.5% year-on-year, and the import and export with Japan increased by 23.2% year-on-year. The import and export of countries along the "Road" increased by 36.6% year-on-year. From the perspective of export products, the export value of mechanical and electrical products increased by 42.2% year-on-year, the export value of high-tech products increased by 35.9% year-on-year, and the export value of seven major labor-intensive products increased by 30.2% year-on-year; especially, due to the shortage of containers in the international container shipping market , as the world's most important container producer, my country's container export volume increased by 248% year-on-year, and the export volume increased by 168.2% year-on-year. From the perspective of imported products, the import value of mechanical and electrical products increased by 31.1% year-on-year, and the import value of high-tech products increased by 29.3% year-on-year; in terms of bulk commodities, the import volume and value of crude oil increased by 2.3% and 20% year-on-year respectively; iron ore and its concentrates The import volume and import value rose by 6% and 85.7% year-on-year respectively; the import volume and import value of plastics in primary shapes increased by 0.3% and 31.2% year-on-year respectively; the import volume and import value of soybeans increased by 12.8% and 44.2% year-on-year respectively; the import volume of natural gas The import volume and import value of pulp, paper and its products increased by 12.7% and 29% respectively year-on-year.
From January to May, the import and export volume of Zhejiang Province was 1,548.61 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 35.8%; exports were 1,107.76 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 34%; imports were 440.85 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 40.7%. The province's import and export, export and import volume accounted for 10.5%, 13.8% and 6.6% of the national total respectively. Ningbo