Concern: Decrease in new orders for machinery and equipment in the United States in June 2010

According to the latest statistics released by the US Bureau of Statistics, in June 2010, new durable goods orders in the United States fell by 1.0% from the previous month to US$190.5 billion, which was the second straight month of decline, with a decline of 0.8% in May. Among them, new orders for machinery and equipment fell again and fell by 0.7% month-on-month. Shipments continued to grow by 0.7% month-on-month. In February, the sequential growth rate of new orders and shipments of machinery and equipment in the United States turned negative.

In the first half of 2010, the export value of US machinery and equipment products (HS84) was 87.54 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 18.0% year-on-year and an acceleration of 6.7 percentage points from the first quarter; of which, the export volume in June was 15.47 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 24.2%. Machinery and equipment still ranks first in the U.S. export product in the first half of the year, accounting for 14.3% of total exports.

In addition, in the first half of 2010, US imports of mechanical and electrical products (HS84-85) accounted for US$77.075 billion from China, a year-on-year increase of 29.7%, accounting for 33.1% of the total, which was the largest source of U.S. imports of machinery and electronic products; during the same period, the United States In the export of electromechanical products, the export of electromechanical products to China was US$ 10.903 billion, which was a year-on-year increase of 30.7%, accounting for 6.8%, and was the third largest export destination, after Canada and Mexico.