As one of the earlier opened coastal cities in China, Jiaxing has established steady trade relations with more than 200 countries and regions in the world. By the end of 2009, over 5,000 foreign-funded enterprises including 30 corporations among the world top 500 from more than 100 countries and regions have invested in Jiaxing, and US $ 10.1661bilion have been accumulatively introduced.

In 2009, total value of import and export was US $17.205 billion, 23.1% down over the previous year. Exports hit US $ 4.864 billion, and imports US $12.341 billion, 29.1% and 20.8% down respectively, with export value of general trade falling by 9.7%, that of processing trade by 18.2%, that of mechanical and electronic products by 22.8% , that of high-tech products by 1% and that of clothing products by 9.7%. 255 three kinds of foreign-invested ventures (joint, cooperative and foreign-owned) were approved with US $ 2.623 billion of contractual foreign capital and US$ 1.335 billion of paid-in actually utilized foreign capital, a 1.9% decrease over the last year.