China\u2019s vast export sector continued to defy headwinds from the US-Israel war on Iran in May, as shipments skyrocketed on the back of increased demand for products related to artificial intelligence and a spike in US imports as trade relations continued to recover in the aftermath of the bilateral tariff war.<\/p>\n
The country\u2019s exports rose by 19.4 per cent year on year to US$376.78 billion in May, according to Chinese customs data released on Tuesday. The reading was significantly higher than a forecast of 12.39 per cent growth from economists polled by financial data provider Wind.<\/p>\n
China also saw imports grow by 27.4 per cent last month to US$271.35 billion, surpassing projections of 20.15 per cent growth in a Wind poll. That brought China\u2019s trade surplus to US$105.43 billion last month, up from US$84.82 billion in April.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe momentum is bolstered by the global AI story, with increased trade in electronics and higher prices driven by strong demand,\u201d said Gary Ng, senior economist for the Asia-Pacific region at Natixis. \u201cIt shows that China remains competitive in exports, and that higher global inflation has not yet affected demand.\u201d<\/p>\n
Markets had been eagerly awaiting this month\u2019s data to gauge whether China\u2019s export sector would be able to maintain that momentum in the face of rising global economic turbulence<\/a> \u2013 and whether US President Donald Trump\u2019s recent visit to Beijing<\/a> had affected trade between the world\u2019s two largest economies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s vast export sector continued to defy headwinds from the US-Israel war on Iran in May, as shipments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[61826,1793,79,381,356,179,18,2219,19,18929,17,71,11992,8820,168834,107,8949,185487,13275,13911],"class_list":["post-526029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-association-of-southeast-asian-nations","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-european-union","tag-ie","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-israel","tag-latin-america","tag-middle-east","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-us","tag-us-china-trade-war","tag-us-israel-war","tag-white-house","tag-wind"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116719752787347852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526029","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=526029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}