From January to December 2011, the total export value of fastener products in Jiaxing was 102.346 million US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 30.90%, and the export volume was 715516 tons, an increase of 9.50% over the same period of last year. The average export unit price was 1,430 US dollars/ton, a year-on-year increase of 19.8%.

I. Key Features of Fastener Exports in 2011 1. Export growth has slowed down. Although the total export of fasteners in Jiaxing in 2011 was US$102.346 million, which was an increase of 30.90% compared to 2010, the export of steel fasteners was US$101.865 million, which was a year-on-year increase of 30.05%, which was an increase from 51.55% in 2010. There has been a decrease; while copper fasteners exported 3.42 million U.S. dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 6.57%. Exports of aluminum fasteners increased the most, with a year-on-year growth of 49.29% to 1.39 million U.S. dollars. The largest increase was in copper washers, which was a year-on-year increase of 93.30%, followed by lag screws and other steel threaded products, which were up 48.00% and 43.87% year-on-year respectively. The largest decrease was for other steel products without thread, which was a decrease of 57.10% year-on-year.

2. The United States and Europe remain the main export markets, but the growth rate of exports to the EU market has declined. In 2011, Jiaxing fastener products exported 21,232 million U.S. dollars to the United States, an increase of 30.70% year-on-year, and exported to the U.S. at 229.97 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 29.63% year-on-year. The total exports to the U.S. and European markets accounted for 42.63% of the total fastener exports of the city, accounting for The ratio of shares fell by 0.29 percentage points year-on-year.

3. The degree of diversification in the export market has further increased. While maintaining stable growth with the traditional market, the trade volume with emerging countries and regions has grown rapidly. For the whole year of 2011, fasteners exports from Jiaxing to Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Mexico, Chile, Russia and other emerging markets increased by 57.28%, 56.19%, 55.96%, 52.91%, 51.76% and 50.07%, respectively.

In addition, due to the EU's anti-regulation tax avoidance on fastener products exported from Malaysia, Jiaxing fastener products exported to Malaysia fell by 52.74% year-on-year in 2011.

4. The unit price of exports rose sharply. In 2011, the average unit price of fasteners exported from Jiaxing was 1,430 U.S. dollars per ton, a year-on-year increase of 19.8 percent. Among them, the average unit price of steel fastener products was 1,425 US dollars / ton, an increase of 19.95%; copper fastener products, the average unit price of 10,059 US dollars / ton, an increase of 19.06%; aluminum fastener products, the average unit price of 2,603 ​​US dollars / Ton, up 7.21% over the same period of last year

II. Export status of fasteners in Jiaxing, January-December 2011 Table of export of fasteners in Jiaxing, January-December, 2011



January-December 2011 Jiaxing Fastener Export Trade Mode



January-December 2011 Jiaxing Fastener Export Market


(Data source: Jiaxing Fasteners Import & Export Enterprises Association)