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Yunnan posts fast growth in trade with ASEAN
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-01-22 11:08
Trade between southwest China's Yunnan Province and ASEAN members
amounted to 2.17 billion U.S. dollars last year, an increment of 630
million U.S. dollars, or 40.9 percent, from the previous year.
According to local customs sources, the trade volume, or 34.8 percent of
the province's total external trade, included 1.63 billion
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U.S. dollars in export value, up 50 percent, and 540 million U.S. dollars
in import value, up 15.6 percent.
Myanmar continued to be the top trade partner of Yunnan, with bilateral
trade standing at 690 million U.S. dollars, or nearly one third of the
province's total trade with ASEAN members.
It is noteworthy that Yunnan's trade with Singapore soared 250 percent to
480 million U.S. dollars last year.
Nonferrous metals remained as leading exports by Yunnan. Last year the
province sold 330 million U.S. dollars worth of nonferrous metals to
ASEAN members, up 130 percent, the local customs sources said.
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