This year, the value of China's exports and imports is expected to grow by 10 percent from the year before, and China's trade surplus will decrease further, Premier Wen Jiabao in his annual work report to the National People's Congress on Monday.

The country plans to adopt a series of measures to sustain the increase in its exports this year. China will try to maintain its foreign trade policy - including its exports-tax rebate - and improve customs supervision and services, quality testing and its foreign exchange reserves. That will help exporters cope with difficulties such as an insufficient number of orders from elsewhere in the world, rising costs and growing trade frictions.

The passage of a bill by the US Senate to empower the Department of Commerce to impose countervailing duties on Chinese imports is not in line with the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Chen said Wednesday.

The minister's remarks at a press conference came after the US Senate on Monday passed a bill to empower the Department of Commerce to impose the controversial countervailing duties on imports from China and Vietnam.