As a result, China's trade-weightedexchangerate was about 4% lower in March than it was nine months before, according to the Bank for International Settlements.
因此,根据国际结算银行(Bank for International Settlements)的统计数字,中国三月份按贸易额加权的汇率比九个月之前还要低约4%。
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For example, despite a current-account surplus of 4.9% of GDP last year, one of the biggest of any developed economy, Japan's trade-weightedexchangerate sank by 13% from the end of 2002 to mid-2007.