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US imports from China fell by 12%
发布时间:2019-07-22 浏览:1907

Passenger traffic at the Port of Los Angeles is 764,777 teu, the busiest June in its 112-year history. The company said in a statement that August marked the end of the 2008-19 fiscal year, with port throughput of 9.7 million TEUs, up from 5.7% in the previous year.

Imports increased by 3.5% to 396,307 TEUs; exports fell by 5.6% to 139,318 TEUs; empty containers increased by 19% to 229,153 TEUs.

In the first six months of this year, the port’s total cargo volume increased by 5.3% year-on-year, when the port set a record for the history of shipments.

Compared with June 2018, the throughput of Long Beach Port decreased in June. June 2018 is the busiest month in the 108-year history of Long Beach.

A total of 677,167 TEUs were processed, a 10% decrease from the previous month. Imports fell by 13.7% to 331,617 TEUs, and exports fell by 1% to 133,833 TEUs. Empty containers returned to Asia fell by 9.1%

Mario Cordero, executive director of Long Beach Port, said: “What we saw in 2018 was that retailers reduced tariffs by transshipping goods.” “In 2019, goods seemed to be shipped here, and warehouses were also It’s full. This disrupts container shipping and disrupts the volume of traffic we usually see at this time of the year.”

According to data from the US Census Bureau, as of May this year, US imports from China fell by 12%, the largest drop since the financial crisis 10 years ago. But as China's status as the largest exporter of the United States declines, other Southeast Asian countries appear to be increasing their traffic across the Pacific.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, which records China's trade statistics, the top five trading partners of Long Beach Port in May were China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and Australia.

In the first five months of 2019, the trade volume of Long Beach Port with China fell by 25.95% to US$16.18 billion. Exports fell by 43.3% and imports fell by 21.54%.

The volume of trade with Japan fell by 32.54% to $3.9 billion. Exports fell 34.4% to $1.1 billion, and imports fell 31.8% to $2.9 billion. The port’s trade with South Korea also fell by 29.3% to $2.5 billion. Imports fell by 48.3% to $771.6 million.

In contrast, the trade volume between Port of Long Beach and Vietnam increased by 34.2% to US$2.2 billion, exports increased by 24.2% to US$576.2 million, and imports increased by 38.1% to US$1.7 billion. Trade with Australia increased by 1.5% to $2.1 billion, exports increased by 0.78% to $1.9 billion, and imports increased by 7.9% to $1.7 billion.

According to the US Census Bureau, the five major trading partners of the Port of Los Angeles in the first five months of 2019 were China, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea and Taiwan.

The trade volume between Los Angeles and China fell by 11.04% to $51.1 billion, of which exports fell by 16.3% to $3.1 billion, while imports fell by 10.7% to $48.1 billion. Although the trade between Los Angeles and China has indeed declined, the decline is much smaller than that of Long Beach.

In addition, the trade volume between Los Angeles and the other four countries has increased.

Trade with Japan increased by 3.7% to $14.9 billion, exports increased by 13.1% to $2.8 billion, and imports increased by 1.7% to $12.2 billion. Trade with Vietnam also increased by 17.7% to US$8.8 billion, exports increased by 0.07% to US$691 million, and imports increased by 19.5% to US$8.1 billion.

The trade volume between Los Angeles and South Korea also increased by 10.9% to reach 6.7 billion. Exports grew by 24.5% to $1.5 billion, while imports grew by 7.4% to $5.1 billion. In Taiwan, exports from Los Angeles fell by 34.23% to $706.3 million, while imports rose 10.42% to $5.1 billion. Overall, trade between Los Angeles and Taiwan grew 2.1% to $5.8 billion.