The figure accounted for 87 percent of the total foreign trade of the autonomous region in southwest China, according to the local customs.
State-owned enterprises in the region, however, reported a 6.2-percent decline in foreign trade in the same period, registering $190 million.
Adjacent to India, Nepal, Myanmar and other south and southeast Asian countries, Tibet has reported continuous growth of foreign trade thanks to improved transport infrastructures, including the epoch-making Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world's highest railroad which was put into operation in 2006.
The total volume of imports and exports in Tibet hit $1.36 billion in 2011, a rise of 62.5 percent year on year, setting a new record.
Updated: 2012-09-22 10:53
( Xinhua)