During the first eight months, China's imports and exports to ASEAN, the European Union and Japan increased, while the trade volume with the United States mildly declined. It allows API clients to download millions of rows of historical data, to query our real-time economic calendar, subscribe to updates and receive quotes for currencies, commodities, stocks and bonds. The country's trade mix continued to improve with the general trade, which accounts for 59 percent of the total, growing 5.6 percent to 18.61 trillion yuan in 2019, an increase of 1.2 percentage points from the previous year. A Reuters poll had expected exports to climb by 7.1 percent in August from a year ago compared with a 7.2-percent rise in July, while imports were expected to rise by 0.1 percent in August from a year ago, reversing a 1.4-percent decline in July. Exports stood at 17.23 trillion yuan last year, up 5 percent from a year earlier, while imports came in at 14.31 trillion yuan, up 1.6 percent, resulting in a trade surplus of 2.92 trillion yuan, which expanded by 25.4 percent, customs data showed. China's foreign trade rose 3.4 percent year-on-year to a historic high of 31.54 trillion yuan (about 4.6 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2019, the General Administration of Customs said Tuesday. In December, dollar-denominated exports … The second-largest economy posted a trade surplus of 58.93 billion U.S. dollars for the month of August, outperforming the 50.50 billion U.S. dollars economists had expected and rising from 62.33 billion U.S. dollars in July, according to the General Administration of Customs (GAC). The country's trade data kept ascending by each quarter with 7.03 trillion yuan for the first quarter, and 7.68 trillion yuan, 8.26 trillion yuan and 8.59 trillion yuan for the second, third and fourth quarters, said Zou Zhiwu, vice minister of the General Administration of Customs. In macroeconomic terms, China’s total exported goods represent 9.1% of its overall Gross Domestic Product for 2019 ($27.309 trillion valued in Purchasing Power Parity US dollars). The State Council in December, for example, announced 28 new policies to provide a level playing field for the private economy, especially help solve financing difficulties. Trade volume with the U.S. mildly declined. A Reuters poll had expected exports to climb by 7.1 percent in August from a year ago compared with a 7.2-percent rise in July, while imports were expected to rise by 0.1 percent in August from a year ago, reversing a 1.4-percent decline in July. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in China was worth 14342.90 billion US dollars in 2019, according to official data from the World Bank and projections from Trading Economics. Trading Economics members can view, download and compare data from nearly 200 countries, including more than 20 million economic indicators, exchange rates, government bond yields, stock indexes and commodity prices. The total value of China-U.S. trade stood at 2.42 trillion yuan throughout the period ending August, declining 0.4 percent from a year earlier, accounting for 12.1 percent of China's total foreign trade. In the interim, ASEAN acts as China's largest trading partner, with bilateral trade value ascending 7 percent to settle at 2.93 trillion yuan, accounting for 14.6 percent of the country's total foreign trade. China's surprising resilience in exports amid the global pandemic is due to some special factors, including a surge in exports of personal protective equipment (PPE) and work/study-from-home products, and a decline of exports by some emerging market competitors, which remain severely affected by the pandemic, said Lu Ting, Chief China Economist at Nomura. Download historical data for 20 million indicators using your browser. Top Export Countries. Exports of mechanical and electrical products rose by 2.1 percent, accounting for 58.5 percent of the total exports. The Trading Economics Application Programming Interface (API) provides direct access to our data. Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on Monday arrived in Washington. In 2019, the imports and exports of private enterprises reached 13.48 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.4 percent, data showed. Beijing ICP prepared NO.16065310-3, China's exports up 9.5% in August, strongest gain in 17 months. Copyright © 2020 CGTN. China's exports rose by 9.5 percent year on year in August in U.S. dollar terms, marking the strongest gain since March 2019, customs data showed on Monday. Last year, China exported 10.06 trillion yuan worth of mechanical and electrical products, an increase of 4.4 percent.