摘要
According to the customs statistics,China’sforeign trade of nonferrous metals in the firstseven months kept increasing with the tradevalue reaching US$18.931 billion,up by 56.5per cent or US$6.831 billion,accounting forover 81 per cent of the total in 2003.During theJanuary-July period,export was US$6.487billion,up by 58.2 per cent or US$2.387 billionyear on year,and import reached 12.4 billion,up by 55.6 per cent or US$4.44 billion.Theforeign trade still shows an unfavorable