Saturday, June 9, 2007

China Jan-May trade surplus $85.72 bln

(Reuters) - China had a trade surplus of $85.72 billion in the first five months of 2007, up more than 80 percent from the same period a year before, a commerce ministry official said on Saturday.

Exports in the first five months were $443.5 billion, while imports in the same period totalled $357.8 billion, Yang Hongbin, a vice special commissioner with the Ministry of Commerce, said in a speech to an industry conference in Shanghai.


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