{"id":419124,"date":"2026-05-09T06:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419124\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T06:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:35:08","slug":"china-records-forecast-beating-april-trade-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419124\/","title":{"rendered":"China records forecast-beating April trade figures"},"content":{"rendered":"
The talks previously set for late March were delayed by the US-Israeli war with Iran, which has sent global energy prices soaring as shipping through the vital Strait of Hormuz has effectively come to a halt.<\/p>\n
Exports from China to the US increased 11.3% year-on-year in April, rebounding from a 26.5% drop in March. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
For Trump, China\u2019s massive surplus in bilateral trade between the countries has long been a major sticking point.<\/p>\n
Before the key summit, China\u2019s exports to the United States grew 11.3% year-on-year in April, official data showed Saturday, returning to growth after dropping by 26.5% in March.<\/p>\n
Economists argue China should shift towards a growth model powered more by household consumption than traditional drivers, including real estate and infrastructure investment.<\/p>\n
In a positive sign for domestic spending, imports into the world\u2019s second-largest economy grew 25.3% year-on-year last month.<\/p>\n
That figure beat a Bloomberg forecast of 20% but was lower than the 27.8% surge in March.<\/p>\n
– AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The talks previously set for late March were delayed by the US-Israeli war with Iran, which has sent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[54170,138,8604,607,4413,3105,127,3806,219,5346,63059,30271,215260,1437,83475,685,10110,4486,111,139,69,5908,3236,15148,21411,9090,1534,108089,23554,131,584],"class_list":["post-419124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-april","tag-business","tag-caused","tag-china","tag-chinas","tag-data","tag-despite","tag-east","tag-economy","tag-expected","tag-faster","tag-figures","tag-forecastbeating","tag-global","tag-grew","tag-last","tag-middle","tag-month","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-official","tag-overseas","tag-pace","tag-pressure","tag-records","tag-saturday","tag-shipments","tag-showed","tag-than","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419124","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=419124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}