{"id":440287,"date":"2026-05-09T12:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440287\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:26:07","slug":"chinese-export-growth-rebounds-as-war-fails-to-curb-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440287\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Export Growth Rebounds as War Fails to Curb Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">China\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.customs.gov.cn\/customs\/2026-05\/09\/article_2026050910092373174.html\" title=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">export<\/a> growth rebounded more than expected despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-06\/shipowners-grapple-for-fixes-in-hormuz-after-trump-drops-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">disruptions<\/a> to shipping caused by the war in Iran, as trade volumes swell due to an investment boom in artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Exports rose 14.1% in April from a year earlier, according to a statement released by the General Administration of Customs on Saturday. That compares with the median forecast of 8.4% in a Bloomberg survey of economists and a 2.5% gain in March. Imports rose 25.3%, resulting in a trade surplus of $84.82 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s export growth rebounded more than expected despite disruptions to shipping caused by the war in Iran, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[218,72,114,18478,113,7319,61,8868,11829,60,1196,80,81583,8982,2286],"class_list":["post-440287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-china","tag-economic-growth","tag-economy","tag-exports","tag-ie","tag-imports","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-middle-east","tag-technology","tag-tehran","tag-trade-surplus","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}