BEIJING - Trade between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan expanded 5.6 percent year-on-year in 2012 to $168.96 billion, the General Administration of Customs said Thursday.
The trade accounted for 4.4 percent of the Chinese mainland's total trade volume in 2012, spokesman Zheng Yuesheng said at a press conference.
The mainland's exports to Taiwan rose 4.8 percent year-on-year to $36.78 billion, while its imports from Taiwan reached $132.18 billion, up 5.8 percent from a year earlier, the spokesman said.
Last year, the mainland imported goods worth $8.43 billion from Taiwan under the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), a jump of 105 percent from a year earlier, Zheng said.
The ECFA, a wide-ranging cross-straits economic pact signed in 2010, also helped traders save $3.97 billion in tariffs, 3.3 times the amount saved in 2011, according to Zheng.
The outlook for cross-Straits trade is promising, as the two sides plan to adopt more practical and open measures to boost trade, the spokesman said.
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