Data from Yiwu Customs show the city's total imports and exports reached 636.4 billion yuan in the first eight months of 2026, up 14.8% year on year. Exports hit 548.85 billion yuan, up 12.8% and a historic high, crossing the 500-billion-yuan mark a full month earlier than last year; imports reached 87.55 billion yuan, up 29.4%.
Africa remained Yiwu's largest trading market at 132.41 billion yuan (up 36.7%); ASEAN was the fastest-growing major market at 98.52 billion yuan (up 55.7%), with Indonesia alone at 11.38 billion (up 26.9%). Market-procurement trade—Yiwu's core export model—reached 443.36 billion yuan (up 10.1%), while furniture, auto parts and beauty-cosmetics exports grew fastest at 51.0%, 54.4% and 31.0% respectively.
Cross-border e-commerce is a bright spot: bonded-import declaration orders reached 84.697 million in the first eight months, up 29.5%, crossing the 80-million mark a month ahead of last year and keeping Yiwu first among Chinese cities. Imports of mechanical-electrical products rose 42.5% to 4.71 billion yuan.
Source: Yiwu Customs / The Paper
