India overtook Canada to become China's tenth largest trading partner in January as monthly trade between China and India soared 63.3 percent to US$2.63 billion, latest customs statistics show.

 

The European Union, the United States and Japan remained China's top three trading partners during the period, with bilateral trade volume of US$26.46 billion, US$23.43 billion and US$17.51 billion respectively, up 37.9 percent, 27.8 percent and 26.5 percent each, according to the General Administration of Customs.

 

Sino-Canadian trade volume stood at 2.23 billion dollars last month.

 

South China's Guangdong Province reported US$44.96 billion of foreign trade in January, accounting for 28.6 percent of the national total. It was followed by east China's Jiangsu Province and Shanghai.

 

(Xinhua News Agency February 13, 2007)