Trade Surplus of Macao SAR Keeps GrowingThe Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China scored a trade surplus of two billion patacas (250 million U.S. dollars) in the first eight months of this year, the latest official statistics show.The trade surplus soared 112.8 percent over that in the same period of last year, according to the figures released Tuesday by the Statistics and Census Services of the Macao SAR government. In the eight months, the area's export and import volumes were 13.7 billion patacas (1.71 billion dollars) and 11.7 billion patacas (1.46 billion dollars) respectively. Textiles and garments remained the leading export items, accounting for 83.2 percent of all exports. On the whole, exports to the United States and the European Union took up 48 percent and 29.6 percent of the total export volumes. Those to China's inland areas and the Hong Kong SAR represented 16.2 percent. Most imports came from the Asian-Pacific region. China's inland areas and Hong Kong supplied 56 percent of the total while goods from the United States and the European Union accounted for 13.6 percent. |
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