Imports of plastic products increased month by month, slightly increased by 1.8% in 2016

The following is the statistics of China's imports of plastic products in 2016:

Import of plastic products (100 million tons)
time	Annual cumulative amount	A year-on-year growth rate (%)
December 2016	46.94	1.80
November 2016	42.35	2.40
October 2016	37.96	1.30
September 2016	33.96	0.30
August 2016	29.75	-0.80
July 2016	25.61	-2.90
June 2016	21.74	-2.40
May 2016	17.90	-2.40
April 2016	14.08	-3.30
March 2016	10.31	-1.50
February 2016	6.27	-2.90
January 2016	3.42	-6.60

Although China is exporting a large number of plastic products, the quality of China's plastic products still has a gap with foreign countries. Some high-end products in the plastic products industry still need to be imported from abroad. In 2016, China's imports of plastic products showed an overall upward trend. The cumulative growth rate was -6.6% at the beginning of the year to 1.8% at the end of the year. The growth rate in the year increased by 8.4 percentage points. The annual import value increased by $83 million in 2015.