China's Macao Special Administrative Region has seen sharply falling exports and marginally rising imports in the first four months, according to official statistics issued Friday.

The figures from the Statistics and Census Service showed that the value of total exports dipped 21.6 percent to 4.63 billion patacas (576 million US dollars) over the same period of last year, while the total import value reached 8.36 billion patacas (105 million US dollars), a 2.2-percent increase.

The United States and the European Union, in the four months, remained Macao's two main export markets, with a share of 44.4 percent and 11.7 percent of all exports respectively, the figures showed.

Meanwhile, some 53.2 percent of Macao's imports in the first four months originated from China's mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Source: Xinhua