Guangdong's trade with APEC economies reaches 6.16 tln yuan in 2025

Trade between south China's Guangdong Province and other APEC economies totaled 6.16 trillion yuan (about 886.11 billion U.S. dollars) in 2025, up 3.3 percent year on year, official data shows.

Exports amounted to 3.82 trillion yuan, up 1.1 percent, while imports reached 2.34 trillion yuan, rising by 8.7 percent, according to the data released by the Guangdong branch of the General Administration of Customs of China on Friday.

China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the United States and China's Taiwan region were Guangdong's top three trading partners within APEC, with trade volumes of 1.28 trillion yuan, 945.32 billion yuan, and 833.08 billion yuan, respectively, accounting for nearly half of the province's total trade volume with these economies.

Exports of machinery and electronic products rose 6 percent to 2.62 trillion yuan, accounting for 68.7 percent of the total export.

Meanwhile, imports of machinery and electronic products expanded significantly, with the value rosing 13.7 percent to 1.72 trillion yuan, representing 73.2 percent of Guangdong's imports from other APEC economies.

The United States' international trade deficit in goods and services was 57.3 billion U.S. dollars in February, up 4.9 percent from January, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Commerce on Thursday.

The country's imports of goods and services increased by 4.3 percent month on month to 372.1 billion U.S. dollars in February, as the surging demand for artificial intelligence and data center construction significantly boosted imports of products such as computers and semiconductors.

U.S. exports of goods and services in February rose by 4.2 percent month on month to 314.8 billion U.S. dollars, mainly driven by increases in exports of non-monetary gold and natural gas.