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On June 11， General Administration of Customs of thePeople's Republic of China announced the profile ofChina foreign trade import and export in the first 5months of this year. According to the customs' sta-tistics， the total import and export value for the first five monthsamounted to USS763.49 billion， 24.7％ decreasing comparedwith the same period last year. Among the total value， the exportvalue amounted to USS426.14 billion， down 21.8% year-on-year，while the import USS337.35 billion， 28％ decreased year-on-year.And the trade surplus from January to May achieved US$88.79billion， 15.7% growth year-on-year， a net growth of US$12.05hillion。