Export, import goal 'can be met'

Foreign trade has picked up in the last couple of months and is likely to achieve its 10 percent annual growth target for 2012, the Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday.

Feedback from companies and government agencies suggested that June trade has built on May's success, Shen Danyang, the spokesman for the ministry, said in a news conference. The General Administration of Customs has yet to report June import and export figures.

A turning point came in May when exports, at $181.1 billion, grew 15.3 percent year-on-year against 4.9 percent in April.