In January 2006, China's foreign trade volume totaled 120.49 billion U.S. dollars, up 26.8 percent year on year, the General Administration of Customs (GAC) said Monday.

In January, China's export volume rose 28.1 percent year on year to 64.99 billion U.S. dollars, and imports grew 25.4 percent to 55.5 billion U.S. dollars, according to GAC figures.

The GAC statistics showed that exports of ordinary trade grew 26.1 percent to 28.88 billion U.S. dollars in the first month, and imports of such trade grew 25.2 percent to 24.37 billion dollars.

In January, the export volume of processing trade grew 29.4 percent to 33.6 billion U.S. dollars, and the import volume of processing trade grew 28.7 percent to 22.63 billion U.S. dollars.

Source: Xinhua