China\u2019s exports soared to record highs in 2025, defying trade tensions with Washington as Beijing\u2019s diversification strategy successfully mitigated a decline in US-bound shipments. However, that resilience could face a new test this year, analysts warned.<\/p>\n
Full-year exports for 2025 climbed 5.5 per cent from a year earlier to US$3.77 trillion, according to customs data released on Wednesday, higher than the 5 per cent growth projected by financial data provider Wind.<\/p>\n
Imports for the same period remained flat at US$2.58 trillion, exceeding Wind\u2019s estimates for a 0.09 per cent dip.<\/p>\n
The surge in exports helped China cement a new record annual surplus of US$1.19 trillion.<\/p>\n
In December alone, outbound shipments rose 6.6 per cent, beating the 2.2 per cent increase projected by Wind and higher than the 5.9 per cent growth recorded in November.<\/p>\n
Imports for the month rose by 5.7 per cent from a year earlier, better than Wind\u2019s forecast of a 0.3 per cent dip and accelerating from November\u2019s 1.9 per cent growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s exports soared to record highs in 2025, defying trade tensions with Washington as Beijing\u2019s diversification strategy successfully…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[190,11388,4177,138,607,65,219,21158,11720,2487,3214,19081,3215,80027,23711,137945,111,139,69,1430],"class_list":["post-232369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-africa","tag-asean","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-exports","tag-greater-china","tag-imports","tag-ing","tag-latin-america","tag-lynn-song","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}