According to customs statistics, in 2010, the total import and export volume of China's mold industry was 4.258 billion US dollars, an increase of 11.85% over 2009. Among them, total imports amounted to US$2.062 billion, an increase of 4.99% year-on-year; total exports were US$2.196 billion, a year-on-year increase of 19.15%. This shows that China's mold industry not only achieved its first-ever foreign trade surplus, but its export growth was greater than the overall growth rate of the industry.

From a quarterly perspective, the year-on-year growth rate of imports and exports in the first quarter to fourth quarter of 2010 was 10.30%, 12.95%, 17.28%, and 19.15%, respectively, showing a steady growth trend. This shows that in the aftermath of the international financial crisis, China's economy was still in a period of rapid growth in 2010, in this favorable environment, China's mold industry has achieved a good recovery growth, and export growth is even higher than the overall increase in the industry, for the first time to achieve full Good year's trade surplus. The three provinces of Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Fujian have each achieved a favorable balance.

Then from the import and export mold prices to analyze. From the total weight and total amount of imports and exports of various regions and molds provided by the customs, it can be seen that the average export stamping die price in 2010 was 9604 U.S. dollars per ton, which was 7.98% higher than that of the previous year; the average price of imported stamping die was 18,457 U.S. dollars / Ton, up 15.5% over the previous year; the ratio of the average unit price of imports and exports was 1.92:1. In the general decline in mold prices, the import and export unit prices have increased significantly, indicating that the technical content of China's import and export stamping molds are improving. At the same time, the average price of plastic rubber molds exported from China has dropped significantly, indicating that most of China's exports of plastics and rubber molds are small and medium sized molds. The technical content and added value are low. Compared with imported molds, the gap is Increase, this phenomenon deserves our attention.

Another concern is the dramatic increase in the competitiveness of Korean molds. In 2010, China imported 543 million U.S. dollars worth of molds from South Korea, an increase of 36.43% compared with 398 million U.S. dollars in the previous year. At the same time, it was 31.44 percentage points higher than the overall increase in imported molds.

According to the type of mold, the highest import and export is still plastic and rubber molds, accounting for 55.74% and 68.96% of the total volume of imports and exports; followed by stamping molds, accounting for 38.17% and 22.90% of the total import and export volume.

From the point of view of imported goods, imported moulds mainly come from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, followed by Germany, Canada, the United States, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore and Denmark.

For export destinations, China's export mold market is mainly Hong Kong, the United States, Japan, followed by India, Germany, Taiwan, Thailand, France, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom.

From the perspective of domestic provinces and cities, the most imported countries are Guangdong, Jiangsu, and Shanghai, followed by Tianjin, Shandong, Beijing, Zhejiang, Liaoning, Fujian, and Hubei; the export molds mainly come from Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu, followed by Shanghai, Shandong, Fujian, Tianjin, Liaoning, Beijing and Jilin.