In the third quarter, the total import and export value of fasteners in China was US $2 billion 50 million.
According to the statistics of China Customs, the total import and export value of fasteners in the third quarter of 2017 was 2.05 billion US dollars, an increase of 6.2% compared with the same period last year, and the total import and export volume was 784.4 million tons, a decrease of 4.7% compared with the same period last year. Among them, exports totaled $1,253 million, up 3.4%; imports totaled $796 million, up 10.2%; trade surplus was $457 million, up from $490 million in the same period last year, and the trade surplus narrowed.