{"id":587887,"date":"2026-07-16T01:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/587887\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T01:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:44:18","slug":"chinas-small-businesses-struggle-to-raise-prices-as-inventory-piles-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/587887\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s small businesses struggle to raise prices as inventory piles up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Iran war and price competition add to woes in a sluggish domestic economy<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F2%2F1%2F7%2F6%2F12806712-1-eng-GB%2Fde570a31311a-20260715N-China-plastics-storefronts.jpg?fit=cover&amp;gravity=faces&amp;dpr=2&amp;quality=medium&amp;source=nar-cms&amp;format=auto&amp;width=780\" alt=\"20260715N China plastics storefronts\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Shuttered storefronts in a plastic materials market in Ningbo earlier this month.\u00a0(Photo by Kentaro Shiozaki)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BEIJING &#8212; China&#8217;s small and medium-sized businesses are hard pressed to increase prices, squeezed by competition for scarce demand while the Middle East crisis drives up supply costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Iran war and price competition add to woes in a sluggish domestic economy Shuttered storefronts in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,6457,16268,179,18,19,23661,17,249374,4057,30659,6158,44313],"class_list":["post-587887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-businesses","tag-chinas","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-inventory","tag-ireland","tag-piles","tag-prices","tag-raise","tag-small","tag-struggle"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116927127627842002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587887","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=587887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}