According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China, China's ten largest trading partners represent 55.60% of Chinese imports, and 57.83% of U.S. exports as of 2008[1]. These figures do not include foreign direct investment, but only trade in goods and services.
The largest Chinese partners with their total trade (sum of imports and exports) in billions of US Dollars for 2008 are as follows:
Country | Total 2008 (Billions USD)[1] | Imports | Exports |
---|---|---|---|
United States | 333.74 | 81.36 | 252.38 |
Japan | 266.73 | 150.60 | 116.13 |
Hong Kong | 203.64 | 12.92 | 190.73 |
South Korea | 186.07 | 112.14 | 73.93 |
Taiwan | 129.21 | 103.34 | 25.88 |
Germany | 115.00 | 55.79 | 59.21 |
Australia | 59.68 | 37.44 | 22.25 |
Russia | 56.91 | 23.83 | 33.08 |
Malaysia | 53.56 | 32.10 | 21.46 |
Singapore | 52.48 | 20.17 | 32.31 |
This list does not include the European Union (EU), which includes Germany. As a single economy, the EU traded €327 billion worth of goods and services with China as of 2009.[2].