The European Union continued to be China's largest trade partner in 2005, with bilateral trade of US$217.3 billion, up 22.6 percent year-on-year.
The United States was China's second largest trading partner with US$211.6 billion in bilateral trade, followed by Japan with US$184.4 billion.
China's trade volume with its top six trade partners exceeded US$100 billion last year for each of them.
Monthly foreign trade in December stood at US$139.8 billion, a new record, reflecting a yearly increase of 20 percent.
Exports stood at US$75.4 billion in December, up 18.2 percent year-on-year, while imports reached US$ 64.4 billion, up 22.2 percent over the previous year.
Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China
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