General

According to Ningbo Customs on the 17th, the total import and export volume of Zhejiang Ningbo in 2022 reached 1.27 trillion yuan (RMB, the same below), up 6.3% year on year. Customs data showed that the export volume reached 823.06 billion yuan, up 8% year on year, and the import volume reached 444.07 billion yuan, up 3.4% year on year.

Ningbo is a major foreign trade city. Facing the complex external environment, private enterprises continue to play the role of "main force" in foreign trade.

In the production workshop of Ningbo Tuopu Electromechanical Import and Export Co., Ltd., the enterprise is running at full speed to catch up with the production. A batch of automobile chassis systems will be exported to North America, ASEAN and other regions from Ningbo port after being packaged.

"We have established long-term economic and trade relations with ASEAN customers, and the company has also opened factories in Malaysia, and overseas orders have been scheduled for May." Ye Kai, vice president of the company, said that in 2022, the company increased investment in innovation and research and improved product quality, and the annual export volume exceeded 3 billion yuan, up 42% year on year.

According to customs data, in the past year, the import and export of private enterprises in Ningbo amounted to 923.75 billion yuan, an increase of 10.1% year on year, 3.8 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of import and export in Ningbo, accounting for 72.9% of the total import and export in Ningbo during the same period.

The EU, the United States and ASEAN are Ningbo's top three trading partners. According to customs data, in 2022, Ningbo's import and export to the EU, the United States and ASEAN reached 229.21 billion yuan, 216.25 billion yuan and 149.48 billion yuan respectively, up 7.8%, 3.8% and 19.6% year on year, accounting for 47% of Ningbo's total foreign trade in the same period.

In addition, Ningbo's import and export to countries and regions along the "the Belt and Road" reached 385.61 billion yuan, up 16.7% year on year, accounting for 30.4% of Ningbo's total import and export volume in the same period; Import and export to other member countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) amounted to 326.65 billion yuan, up 4.7% year on year, accounting for 25.8% of the total import and export of Ningbo in the same period.

From the perspective of product types, customs data show that mechanical and electrical products are the main export commodities, with an export of 460.19 billion yuan, up 4.6% year on year, accounting for 55.9% of the total export of Ningbo; Textile and clothing exports reached 101.82 billion yuan, up 5.1% year on year; The export of high-tech products reached 610.1 billion yuan, up 10.1% year on year.

In addition, in terms of imported goods, customs data showed that the import of basic organic chemicals was 50.34 billion yuan, up 4.1% year on year; The import of agricultural products was 32.31 billion yuan, up 23.4% year on year; The import of refined oil was 22.3 billion yuan, up 109.6% year on year.

In order to help foreign trade enterprises make a good start in 2023, Ningbo Customs will make a series of policy combinations. Wang Xiaoxia, deputy chief of the Haishu Customs Inspection Section under Ningbo Customs, said that in order to improve the efficiency of customs clearance, Ningbo Customs will guide enterprises to superimpose the use of "two-step declaration", "early declaration", and tax collection and other facilitation measures. At the same time, through a visit and research before the year, establish a "fixed person and enterprise" contact and assistance mechanism for key enterprises, and guide enterprises to make good use of relevant policy dividends.