SHANXI Province generated US$11.4 billion in foreign trade in the first 11 months of this year, an annual rise 33.6 percent, its commerce bureau said last Friday.

In November, the trade volume rose 57 percent annually to US$1.24 billion, including US$487 million of exports, up 104.6 percent, and US$762 million of imports, up 36.7 percent.

The bureau said the province's foreign trade for 2010 would be US$12.5 billion, up 46 percent year on year. It will include US$4.27 billion of exports, up an annual 68.5 percent, and US$7.16 billion of imports, up 42.9 percent.