Yiwu has delivered a remarkable foreign trade report card for the first half of 2026. According to statistics from the Yiwu Market Development Committee, the city's total e-commerce transaction volume reached 324.093 billion yuan in the first six months, a 9.62% year-on-year increase. Within this, cross-border e-commerce transactions hit 100.084 billion yuan, growing 11.25% year-on-year.
This marks the first time in Yiwu's history that cross-border e-commerce has surpassed the 100 billion yuan threshold in a half-year period. Previously, reaching the 100 billion mark required a full calendar year — the city first achieved annual cross-border e-commerce transactions exceeding 100 billion yuan in 2021, and by 2025 the full-year figure had reached 167.964 billion yuan.
The acceleration reflects fundamental changes in the small commodity export ecosystem. Among the city's 860,000 e-commerce business entities, over 40% are now engaged in cross-border business to some degree. Many operators in the Yiwu International Trade City and Jiangbeixiazhu e-commerce village have shifted their focus from purely domestic wholesale to treating overseas markets as their core growth battlefield.
Multiple logistics channels are supporting this growth. A TIR international road transport truck carrying over 80,000 cross-border parcels recently departed from the Yiwu International Mail Exchange Bureau bound for Kazan, Russia. The aviation channel's cross-border cargo volume accounted for 70.17% of total volume, with a 46.39% year-on-year increase. Sea-rail express lines, road TIR, and air freight operate in parallel, creating comprehensive logistics pathways to global markets.
The city also hosts over 200 platform matchmaking events annually. At this year's Zhejiang International E-Commerce Expo in June, dozens of platforms including Amazon, DHgate, SHEIN, and Temu gathered in Yiwu, covering consumer markets across North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and Latin America.
