中国6年来首次出现月度贸易逆差，国际社会对人民币汇率表示关注

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中国6年来首次出现月度贸易逆差

新华网北京4月10日报道 海关总署10日发布数据显示,一季度我国外贸顺差为144.9亿美元,减少近八成,3月份当月逆差72.4亿美元。

海关数据显示,今年一季度我国外贸进出口总值6178.5亿美元,比去年同期增长44.1%。其中出口3161.7亿美元,增长28.7%;进口 3016.8亿美元,增长64.6%。

统计显示,今年3月份,我国进出口总值为2314.6亿美元,增长42.8%。其中出口1121.1亿美元,增长24.3%;进口1193.5亿美元,增长66%。

由于国内需求旺盛拉动石油等原材料进口数量和价格双双强劲上升,以及国内消费结构升级导致汽车类产品进口猛增,3月份当月我国进口增速高出同期出口增速41.7个百分点,当月出现72.4亿美元的贸易逆差,中止了我国自2004年5月开始连续70个月贸易顺差的局面。其中3月份当月逆差主要来自台塆、日本和韩国等國镓和地区,规模分别为79亿、65.3亿和61.3亿美元。

据海关统计,一季度我国对外贸易恢复性增长势头良好。与2008年一季度相比,今年一季度进出口总值增长8.2%;出口增长3.4%,进口增长 13.8%。其中今年3月份进出口总值较2008年同期增长13.1%;出口增长2.9%,进口增长24.6%。从环比来看,今年3月份进出口较2月份环比增长27.6%;其中出口环比增长18.6%,进口环比增长37.3%。

据海关统计,前3个月,一般贸易进出口增速高于同期总体增速,加工贸易进口增长迅速。我国一般贸易进出口3096.8亿美元,增长47.9%,高出同期全国进出口增速3.8个百分点。其中出口1413.1亿美元,增长26.6%;进口1683.7亿美元,增长72.2%。一般贸易项下出现贸易逆差 270.6亿美元。同期,我国加工贸易进出口2405.1亿美元,增长38.5%。其中出口1516.9亿美元,增长29.8%;进口888.2亿美元, 增长56.3%。加工贸易项下贸易顺差628.7亿美元,增长4.7%,相当于同期总体顺差规模的4.3倍。

在我与主要贸易伙伴的双边贸易中,今年一季度,欧盟继续保持我国第一大贸易伙伴,中欧双边贸易总值1014.7亿美元,增长35.1%。同期,美国仍为我国第二大贸易伙伴,中美双边贸易总值为781.1亿美元,增长25.8%。日本以微弱的优势超过东盟,重新成为我国第三大伙伴。一季度中日双边贸易总值为636.1亿美元,增长38.2%。我国与东盟双边贸易总值达629.1亿美元,增长61.3%。

在出口商品中,今年一季度,我国机电产品出口1890.8亿美元,增长31.5%,高出同期我国总体出口增速2.8个百分点,占同期我国出口总值的 59.8%。同期,传统大宗商品出口快速增长,其中服装出口240.4亿美元,增长9.1%;纺织品出口152.1亿美元,增长26.6%;鞋类出口 72.6亿美元,增长13.8%。

在进口商品中,主要大宗商品进口量有不同程度的增长,进口均价普遍出现明显回升。据海关统计,铁矿砂进口1.6亿吨,增长18%,进口均价为每吨 96.3美元,上涨20.7%;大豆进口1104万吨,增长8.7%,进口均价为每吨456.9美元,上涨15.1%。此外,进口机电产品1377.6亿美元,增长49.8%,其中汽车进口17.9万辆,增长1.7倍。


China March Trade Deficit May Complicate Yuan Issue

BEIJING—China ran its first monthly trade deficit in six years in March, which could fuel fears the country's export recovery remains wobbly and complicate any decision by Beijing to let the yuan appreciate.

China's trade deficit in March was $7.24 billion, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Saturday, citing data from the General Administration of Customs. It isn't unusual for Xinhua, China's state media, to release the trade figures first. Data from Customs had been expected Saturday.

The deficit was much bigger than the median forecast of $280 million in a Dow Jones Newswires survey of 13 economists.

China's exports last month grew 24.3% from a year earlier, slower than February's 45.7% on-year gain, while at the same time imports rose 66%, sharply up from the 44.7% on-year growth in February.

The deficit, the first since April 2004, came after Chinese government officials hinted in recent weeks that China likely imported more than it sold abroad in March.

Despite the March deficit, China's trade surplus in the first quarter totaled $14.49 billion, but shrinking 76.7% from the same time a year earlier, the report said. Running surpluses remains the broader trend for China this year, economists have said.

China's domestic economy has been on the mend and China is due to issue its first quarter gross domestic product data on April 15. Chinese policymakers have been sounding warnings about the dangers of asset price bubbles and inflationary pressures intensifying in the domestic economy amid the return of trade and capital inflows.

In a short, public statement released by the U.S. and China after Thursday's meeting between U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and China Vice Premier Wang Qishan in Beijing, the two sides said they had exchanged views on bilateral and global issues. The last-minute meeting, which was announced only on Wednesday, was the latest in conciliatory gestures in recent weeks by Beijing and Washington to mend strained ties and that has given Chinese policymakers room to come to a consensus on the yuan exchange rate mechanism.

The Chinese currency has been effectively pegged against the dollar since mid-2008, following three years of gradual appreciation, due to the global financial crisis. In early March, People's Bank of China Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan indicated that the de facto peg to the dollar was a response to the global financial crisis that would be exited at some point.

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