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标题：China May trade surplus down 10 percent on imports
来源: 美联社
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China May trade surplus down 10 percent on imports
By ELAINE KURTENBACH – 6 hours ago
SHANGHAI, China (AP) — China's trade surplus shrank 10 percent in May from a year earlier, the second straight monthly decline, as the value of imports of crude oil and other raw materials surged, the government said Wednesday.
The $20.2 billion surplus for May was still relatively large — up from a $16.7 billion gap in April and $13.4 billion in March — and larger than analysts had predicted.
Imports ballooned 40 percent to $100.3 billion, the General Administration of Customs said.
Exports, meanwhile, rose 28 percent to $120.5 billion — still strong amid speculation that the slowdown in the U.S. economy would significantly erode export demand.
"It suggests that those saying that exports are collapsing are wrong," Stephen Green, an economist at Standard Chartered Bank in Shanghai, said in a report Wednesday.
While exports of manufactured goods remains strong, weakness is showing up in textiles and other industries, he added.
However, China's trade gap with both the United States and the European Union grew in May compared with a year earlier. That's likely to rankle both trading partners, who have pushed for China to open itself up to more imports and make its currency more flexible. Critics claim authorities are keeping the yuan artificially weak to give Chinese exporters an advantage.
China's gap with the U.S. came to $14.3 billion in May, up from $12.6 billion in the same month a year ago. Imports from the U.S. jumped 26.3 percent to $6.9 billion, but they were far exceeded by China's $21.2 billion in exports, a 9.1 percent increase over May 2007.
China's surplus with the EU surged 28 percent to $12.7 billion from $9.9 billion a year ago.
But China's deficit with Japan nearly doubled in May to $3.1 billion.
The trade surplus for the first five months of the year was $78 billion, down 8.6 percent from the $85.7 billion surplus in January-May 2007.
五月中国贸易顺差下降百分之十
中国上海（美联社）-中国政府上周三表示，由于石油及其他原材料价格上涨，五月贸易盈余比上年同期下降了10%，这已经是连续第二个月下降了。
五月份202亿美元的顺差依然非常庞大，超过了四月的167亿和三月的134亿，也超过了专家预测。
海关总管理处说，进口额增长40%达到1003亿美元。
而同期出口增长28%达到1205亿美元，尽管明显受到美国对其出口需求下降的影响，但出口额依然非常庞大。
“数据显示中国的出口并没有遭遇危机，”Stephen Green在上周三的一份报告中说，他是渣打银行上海部门的一名经济学家。
机械制造业的出口仍然旺盛，但是纺织品和其他一些轻工业的出口有些疲软，他补充道。
但是，五月中国和美国、欧盟之间的贸易逆差与一年前相比，依然有所增加。这使得两位贸易伙伴（欧美）非常不满，他们要求中国增加进口，并加大货币汇率弹性（即升值）。批评家指出，中国官方人为压制人民币价值使得她的出口商获得（不正当）优势。
五月中美之间的贸易逆差已经达到143亿美元，而去年同期则是126亿美元。虽同比然五月从美国的进口增加了26.3%达到69亿美元，但这与对美出口增长9.1%达到212亿美元的规模相比，差距依然很大。
中国与欧盟的贸易顺差与去年同期的99亿美元剧增28%达到127亿美元。
但是五月中国与日本的贸易逆差增长两倍达到31亿美元。
今年前五个月中国的贸易顺差总额是780亿美元，与去年同期的857亿美元相比下降了9.7%。 |
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