China imported 240.634 tons of unforged copper and copper products valued at 1,869.301 million US dollars in March 2008. The import in January-March reached 706.994 yons valued at 5,246.255 million US dollars, down 8.9 percent and up 7.8 percent respectively year on year.
Following is a table showing the import from 2004 to March 2008, released by the General Administration of Customs:
Cumulative Change y-o- Cumulative Change y-o-
Quantity ( y (%) Value ( y (%)
tons) million US
dollars)
2004 2,576,478 -1.6 7,727.263 37.9
2005 2,533.758 -1.6 9,327.908 20.8
2006 2,061,917 -18.6 12,416.279 33.1
2007
January 229,077 44.0 1,479.277 107.4
February 468,849 56.2 2,954.538 117.0
March 776,559 58.0 4,855.272 112.8
April 1,081,231 60.8 6,872.804 116.6
May 1,301,776 58.5 8,459.709 111.3
June 1,514,220 52.3 10,027.327 95.8
July 1,720,734 48.8 11,589.961 87.5
August 1,912,564 42.7 13,060.717 75.3
September 2,128,935 40.5 14,708.237 70.0
October 2,331,873 38.8 16,287.207 66.2
November 2,555,641 37.8 18,023.312 63.5
December 2,780,009 34.8 19,667.162 58.5
2008
January 239,498 4.6 1,716.374 16.1
February 466,377 -0.5 3,375.025 14.3
March 706,994 -8.9 5.246.255 7.8
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