Hardware exports continue to grow

China's export of hardware tools continued to rise in 2013. In addition to door and window hardware, construction hardware products include: faucets, showers, toilet accessories, toilet accessories, valves, pipe fittings and other plumbing hardware; modular metal ceiling lamps, active partitions, metal decorative panel decoration Hardware Show; electric screwdrivers and other types of fasteners and metal wire, nails, screws and so on. From January to March 2013, the metal products sub-sectors were sorted in accordance with the cumulative total import and export volume: construction hardware, Tool hardware, household hardware, locks, cooking utensils and other gas appliances, shower rooms, stainless steel kitchen appliances, zippers And range hoods. Among them, the three building hardware, tools, hardware, and household hardware industries accounted for 42.99% of the total volume of total imports and exports in the entire industry in the first half of the year, respectively, 17.51%, 12.62% compared to the same period last year, a slight decline in construction. Hardware, tool hardware industry, hardware has increased slightly, but the influence and quality of domestic hardware tool brands still need to be improved. The foreign trade of the metal products industry in China is general trade. From January to March 2013, the volume of imports and exports by general trade increased by 12.52%, and the total volume of imports and exports accounted for 73.34% of the total industry. Among them, general trade exports increased 15.25% year-on-year, a decrease of 3.16 percentage points from the same period of last year, and general trade imports increased by 2.39% year-on-year, a year-on-year decrease of 6.35 percentage points.