CHONGQING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) — Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality saw its foreign trade reach 496.76 billion yuan (about 73.3 billion U.S. dollars) in the first seven months of 2022, marking a year-on-year increase of 12.3 percent, according to the city’s customs authorities.
Of the total foreign trade volume, exports rose 17.5 percent year on year to 324.48 billion yuan, and imports gained 3.6 percent to