THE total imports and exports volume of the city in the first four months reached US$22.489 billion, increasing by 36.3 percent compared with the same period of last year. Among these, the exports volume was US$12.286 billion and the imports volume was US$10.203 billion, increasing by 32.4 percent and 41.2 percent.

    The imports and exports volume in April was US$6.018 billion, increasing by 31.2 percent. The exports volume and import volume reached to US$3.52 billion and US$2.498 billion respectively, increasing by 35.3 percent and 25.8 percent.

    Imports of products like ironsand, oil, cotton, plastic materials and food have increased by 120 percent, 36.6 percent, 89.4 percent, 32.2 percent and 113.1 percent respectively from last year.

    (Wang Yuanyuan, Shen Junlin)