{"id":50266,"date":"2025-09-29T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50266\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:13:09","slug":"china-inc-s-already-low-profit-margins-at-risk-from-us-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50266\/","title":{"rendered":"China Inc.\u2019s Already Low Profit Margins at Risk From US Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Chinese firms are mostly less profitable than comparable US companies, leaving exporters at risk of a further hit to earnings as President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs sap demand, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/T3C04AGOT0JL\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs- whitespace-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-component=\"link\">new researchBloomberg Terminal<\/a> from Bloomberg Economics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">While Chinese companies can defend their \u201crazor-thin margins by leveraging their market dominance\u201d in the short term, at some point US customers will have to raise prices in response, wrote Bloomberg\u2019s China economists Chang Shu and David Qu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese firms are mostly less profitable than comparable US companies, leaving exporters at risk of a further hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[642,138,607,15583,4568,1951,219,3214,16288,648,232,19083,220,111,139,69,1429],"class_list":{"0":"post-50266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-august","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-donald-john-trump","12":"tag-earnings","13":"tag-economics","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-exports","16":"tag-hardware","17":"tag-industries","18":"tag-jobs","19":"tag-july-sarl-caen","20":"tag-markets","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-trade-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50266","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=50266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}