Trade between Hungary, China remains strong despite COVID-19

The trade between Hungary and China remained strong despite an overall setback of Hungary’s foreign trade due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, Hungarian Export Promotion Agency (HEPA) told Xinhua on Friday.

“Based on the available data, the total foreign trade of Hungary recorded a significant setback in the first half year of 2020, however the trade between Hungary and China remained strong,” HEPA said.

“According to the data of the first six month, the value of Hungarian exports to China could increase by 4 percent while the import rose with even higher pace, by 20 percent on a half year-on-half year basis,” HEPA added.

“In the first half year of 2020, the Hungarian export of processed products and food, beverages and tobacco to China showed a 60.67 percent increase compared to the same period last year,” HEPA said.

The promotion agency underlined that over the last years, China gained more and more importance as Hungary’s trading partner, “It has already obtained primary position amongst the trade partners of Hungary outside Europe.”