2008年，中国已经超过德国，成为世界最大的制造业产品出口国，尽管从出口商品的总量来讲，还未达到第一。2000年至2008年间，中国制造业产品出口的增长速度为每年25.2%，是德国的两倍。尽管欧盟的出口总量仍然是位居榜首，但是同中国的差距正在逐年减少（2000年中国同欧盟差距比率为67%，2008年为15%）。进口方面，美国、德国和中国仍然是制造业产品的前三大进口国。
      2008年4季度和2009年1季度，世界制造业出口下降了11个百分点。 10大出口经济体中，只有中国在2008年4季度出口增长了4.6个百分点， 2009年的1季度，中国制造业产品出口下降了19.1个百分点。美国出口2008年4季度下降了4个百分点，2009年1季度下降了20个百分点， 欧盟2008年4季度和2009年1季度的出口量分别下滑了16.1和31.4个百分点。2009年1季度，日本和中国台湾地区是受打击最严重的地区，出口量分别下滑了41.3和38.4个百分点。

（陈琼 编译）

       In 2008, China surpassed Germany to become the world’s largest exporter of manufactured goods, although not so far of total merchandise exports.Between 2000 and 2008, China’sexports of manufactured goods grew at an annual average rate of 25.2 percent, twice that of Germany. While EU exports outside the European Unionstill remain at the top of the list, the gap with China has been constantly narrowing (from 67 per cent in 2000 to 15 per cent in 2008). On the import side, the hierarchy of the three major importers of manufactures – the United States, Germany and China – has not changed.

     World exports of manufacturesdeclined by 11 per cent in the last quarter of 2008 and 29 per cent in the first quarter of 2009. Of the ten major exporters, only China registered a positive growth rate of 4.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008. During the first quarter of 2009, however, China recorded a 19.1 percent decline. Exports of the UnitedStates shrank by 4 per cent in the last quarter of 2008 and 20 per cent in the first quarter of 2009 while exports of the European Union fell by 16.1 per cent and 31.4 per cent respectively. In the first quarter of 2009,Japan and Chinese Taipei were the hardest hit. They saw their exports contract by 41.3 per cent and 38.4 per cent respectively.