Trade

Shanghai is one of China’s key export ports, and foreign trade is mirroring its white-hot economy in growth levels. From 2000 to 2005 the value of exports overseas, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan, more than tripled from $22.5 billion to $80 billion. And from January to June 2007, Shanghai's exports valued at US$64.3 billion, showing a 21% increase year-on-year. Its main trading partners are the US and Japan, followed by Germany, the Netherlands, Korea, the UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada and Australia. Exports include cars, laptops, petrochemicals, clothing, electronics and telecommunications equipment.

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