The main commodities exported by the United States to China are electromechanical products, transportation equipment, mineral products and chemical products.
The Department of Commerce's Bureau of International Trade released a number of recent export reports involving more than a dozen U.S. industries, showing that China has become the main export market for U.S. products and technologies in a number of important industries, such as aircraft parts, automotive parts, construction equipment, civil nuclear energy, renewable energy, and smart grids.
China is the seventh-largest export market for U.S. aircraft components. China is also the third-largest export market for U.S. automotive parts products, the second-largest export market for construction equipment, the seventh-largest export market for smart grid products and technologies, the second-largest export market for financial technologies, and the third-largest export market for manufacturing technologies.
2In January-June 2018 U.S. exports of transportation equipment to China included $6.86 billion of aerospace vehicles, up 18.4 percent, and $5.61 billion of vehicles and their parts and accessories, down 13.5 percent.
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Overview of U.S.-China Bilateral Trade in January-June 2018
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. bilateral import and export of goods with China in January-June amounted to 313.76 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 8.7 percent. U.S. exports to China amounted to $64.02 billion, an increase of 8.9%, accounting for 7.7% of total U.S. exports, down 0.1 percentage points;
U.S. imports from China amounted to $249.74 billion, an increase of 8.6%, accounting for 20.2% of the total U.S. imports, the U.S. side of the trade deficit of $185.72 billion, an increase of 8.6%.
The main commodities exported by the U.S. to China are electromechanical products, transportation equipment, minerals and chemicals, with exports of $13.23 billion, $12.50 billion, $7.09 billion and $6.11 billion from January to June, an increase of 7.7%, 1.5%, 72.9% and 13.5%, accounting for 20.7%, 19.5%, 11.1%, 11.1%, and 9.6% of its total exports to China. and 9.6 percent.
The U.S. imports from China are dominated by electromechanical products, importing 126.25 billion U.S. dollars from January to June, accounting for 50.6% of the total U.S. imports from China, an increase of 10.3%. Among them, motor and electrical products imports of 68.38 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 8.4%; machinery and equipment imports of 57.87 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 12.7%.
Huzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce Official Website - U.S. Trade in Goods in January-June 2018 Overview of U.S.-China Trade
People's Daily Online - U.S. Department of Commerce: China Becomes a Major Export Market for Important U.S. Products and Technologies