China's imports and exports fell 10.7 percent in October year on year, but monthly exports exceeded100 billion U.S. dollars for a fourth straight month this year, the General Administration of Customs announced Wednesday.
Imports stood at 86.8 billion U.S. dollars for October, a decrease of 6.4 percent compared with the same month last year; exports dropped 13.8 percent to 110.8 billion U.S. dollars.
From January to October, the country's imports and exports totaled 1.76 trillion U.S. dollars, down 19.9 percent compared with the same period last year.
Imports for the first 10 months were 798.13 billion U.S. dollars, down 19 percent year on year; exports declined 20.5 percent to 957.36 billion U.S. dollars.
The trade surplus for the first 10 months was down 27.2 percent at 159.23 billion U.S. dollars.
The EU was China's biggest trading partner for this period, though bilateral trade declined 18.7 percent to 292.42 billion U.S. dollars in value; the U.S. was second with bilateral trade at239.36 billion U.S. dollars, down 14.9 percent; Japan followed with bilateral trade down 19.3 percent at 182.34 billion U.S. dollars.