{"id":480474,"date":"2026-06-07T08:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/480474\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T08:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:10:31","slug":"china-opens-its-markets-to-african-exports-who-benefits-business-and-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/480474\/","title":{"rendered":"China opens its markets to African exports. Who benefits? | Business and Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s tariff-free access for many African products has renewed hopes of industrial growth. But trade remains uneven.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has recently removed tariffs on many imports from Africa for the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>China wants access to Africa\u2019s resources, and the continent wants to build industries and jobs and move up the value chain.<\/p>\n<p>The trade development has occurred as China is expanding its influence in Africa and the US appears to be pulling back from the continent.<\/p>\n<p>For more than a decade, Chinese money has helped finance roads, railways and ports across Africa. China is also Africa\u2019s largest trading partner.<\/p>\n<p>But Chinese exports to Africa far exceed African exports to China. Many African nations remain heavily reliant on exporting raw commodities while importing manufactured goods.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 2 Jun 20262 Jun 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share-nodes<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s tariff-free access for many African products has renewed hopes of industrial growth. But trade remains uneven. Beijing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1911,1631,114,2681,1657,184,85,2682,46,238,9599,1590,4055],"class_list":["post-480474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-africa","tag-asia-pacific","tag-business","tag-business-and-economy","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-international-trade","tag-israel","tag-politics","tag-show-types","tag-trade-war","tag-tv-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}