{"id":133518,"date":"2025-10-20T08:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133518\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T08:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:23:12","slug":"chinas-q3-gdp-growth-slows-to-lowest-in-a-year-trump-tariffs-trade-tensions-hit-demand-key-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133518\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Q3 GDP growth slows to lowest in a year; Trump tariffs, trade tensions hit demand \u2014 Key points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760948592_742_.jpg\" alt=\"China\u2019s Q3 GDP growth slows to lowest in a year; Trump tariffs, trade tensions hit demand \u2014 Key points\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> The Chinese economy dipped to its weakest pace in the year to less than 5%, dragged down by sluggish domestic demand and tensions with the US.According to figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday, the economy grew 4.8% from July to September, marking the slowest period since the third quarter of 2024. In the previous quarter, it registered a 5.2% growth. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;FIX YOUR APPROACH, OR&#8230;&#8217;: Chinese RETALIATES Against Trump; Gives Big Rare Earth Shock To U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on a quarterly basis, the GDP grew 1.1% in the third quarter, beating the 0.8% increase forecast and revised 1.0% gain in the previous quarter, according to a Reuters report.For the first nine months of 2025, the country\u2019s GDP grew 5.2% year-on-year.However, exports remained relatively strong, as Chinese companies shifted their focus to other global markets, facing higher tariffs from US, under President Donald Trump.Retail sales in September increased just 3% as compared with a year earlier, marking the slowest rise since November, reflecting challenges in consumer spending.Industrial production, exceeded expectations, growing 6.5% in September, compared with forecasts of 5%, providing a rare bright spot in an otherwise sluggish economy.Fixed-asset investment fell 0.5% during the first nine months of the year, marking its first contraction since 2020, according to Bloomberg. Analysts had predicted GDP growth of 4.7% for the quarter.Property investment in the country remained weak, falling 13.9% in the first three quarters weighing down both economic growth and consumer confidence, with momentum further hit by the ongoing US trade tensions.Overall, China\u2019s economy slowed for a second consecutive quarter. While exports and industrial output showed strength, reduced spending by households and companies kept growth subdued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chinese economy dipped to its weakest pace in the year to less than 5%, dragged down by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,79534,179,18,10170,19,69830,17,32834,939],"class_list":{"0":"post-133518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-china-gdp-growth","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-exports","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-industrial-production","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-trade-tensions","17":"tag-trump-tariffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}