February 16, 2021
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China becomes biggest EU trading partner

According to the EU’s statistical service, the bloc’s imports from China throughout the year 2020 grew by 5.6 per cent year-on-year to 383.5 billion euros (US $465 billion), and exports grew by 2.2 per cent to 202.5 billion euros….reports Asian Lite News

China becomes the biggest trade partner of the European Union (EU) in 2020, with exports and imports both increasing amid Covid-19 pandemic surge , Eurostat said.

According to the EU’s statistical service, the bloc’s imports from China throughout the year 2020 grew by 5.6 per cent year-on-year to 383.5 billion euros (US $465 billion), and exports grew by 2.2 per cent to 202.5 billion euros, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.

At the same time, the trade in goods with the United States, which had topped the EU’s trade partners list until early 2020, saw substantial decline in both ways.

The EU also witnessed higher trade volume with the rest of the world in December 2020, up by 6.6 billion euros from the same month in 2019, a first year-on-year increase since it was hit by the pandemic.

The single market suffered a decrease of 9.4 per cent in exports of goods and 11.6 per cent decrease in imports in 2020. With industries largely affected by the containment measures last year, energy recorded by far the sharpest drop among all sectors, followed by food and drink, raw materials and chemicals.

The Eurostat release on Monday coincided with China’s official data published in mid-January, which showed the trade with the EU grew by 5.3 per cent to 4495.77 billion yuan, or nearly 600 billion euros, in 2020.

While China’s total goods imports and exports expanded 1.9 percent year on year to 32.16 trillion yuan (about US $5 trillion) in 2020, hitting a record high, the surge in trade with the EU was more than double the average growth rate.

The result fully speaks for “the strong resilience and importance of China-EU economic and trade cooperation,” said Zhang Ming, head of the Chinese Mission to the EU, at a webinar last month with the European thinktank, Friends of Europe.

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