According to customs statistics, in the first four months of this year, China's total import and export value of goods trade was 9.07 trillion yuan, down 4.9% compared with the same period last year (the same below), and the decline rate was 1.5 percentage points narrower than that in the first quarter. Among them, export was 4.74 trillion yuan, down 6.4%; import was 4.33 trillion yuan, down 3.2%; trade surplus was 415.7 billion yuan, a decrease of 30.4%. In the first four months, China's total import and export value was 1.3 trillion US dollars, down 7.5%. Among them, exports were $678.28 billion, down 9%; imports were $620.05 billion, down 5.9%; and the trade surplus was $58.23 billion, a decrease of 32.6%.

Textile exports increased while clothing exports declined. In the first four months, China's textile exports, including masks, totaled 261.3 billion yuan, an increase of 5.9%; and clothing, 205.1 billion yuan, a decrease of 20.2%.