The foreign trade volume of South China's Guangdong Province totaled 300.83 billion US dollarsin the past three quarters and made up 29.4 percent of the country's total, up 18.6 percent year-on-year, according to the provincial customs statistics.

Exports reached 165.56 billion US dollars, up 24 percent. Imports amounted to 135.27 billion US dollars, up 12.6 percent. Trade surplus topped 30.29 billion US dollars, or 44.3 percent of the country's total.

Exports of general trade maintained a fast growth rate and reached 37.94 billion US dollars, up 42.2 percent, higher than the province's average growth rate of 24 percent.

The exports of mechanical and electrical products stood at 112.22 billion US dollars and their imports reached 79.59 billion US dollars, up 25.7 and 15.9 percent respectively.

Imports of agricultural products, automobiles and crude oil decreased by 20.7 percent, 11.6 percent and 24.1 percent respectively.

According to customs forecasts, the province's foreign trade will reach 410 billion US dollars and exports will amount to 225 billion US dollars by the year's end.

Hong Kong, the United States, the EU, Japan and ASEAN are the biggest five trading partners of the province.

Editor: Yan