china news network on april 12 li kuiwen, spokesman for the general administration of customs, said today that trade frictions between china and the united states had some impact on imports and exports in the first quarter of this year, but were generally manageable.
on april 12, the nso held a press conference and asked li kuiwen, spokesperson of the general administration of customs and director of the department of statistics and analysis, to brief us on the import and export situation in the first quarter of 2019.
q: how will the china-us trade frictions affect the total volume of imports and exports in the first quarter of this year? in response, kuiwen lee said, from the basic data, there are some related effects, but the overall controllable.
li kuiwen gave a brief account of the customs statistics. li kuiwen reveals, according to custom statistic, in the first quarter of this year, our country imports and exports 815.86 billion yuan to the united states, drop year-on-year 11%, among them export 622.43 billion yuan, drop 3.7%, import 193.43 billion yuan, drop 28.3%. in march, china's imports and exports to the united states reached 291.35 billion yuan, up by 0.1%, of which exports reached 214.99 billion yuan, up by 10.6%, and imports 76.36 billion yuan, down by 21%.
"on the whole, the economic and trade frictions between china and the us have also had some impact on business operations, but we think they are generally under control. the past period of time, the cpc central committee and the state council pay close attention to the trend of china-us economic and trade friction, various government departments, including customs, resolutely implement the relevant policy measures to support enterprise development, including higher export tax rebates, lower value-added tax rates, lower social security contributions rate, etc., reduce business operating costs, in a stable business confidence, promote positive in our foreign trade and economic stability. in particular, since the meeting between the chinese and us heads of state in argentina in early december last year, the economic and trade working teams of the two countries have maintained very close communication. the ministry of commerce has also released relevant information. we believe that economic and trade cooperation still plays an important role as an anchor in china-us relations. we believe that with the joint efforts of the two countries, china-us economic and trade relations will surely achieve better results of mutual benefit and win-win results. li kuiwen.
source: china news network