{"id":467477,"date":"2026-03-10T08:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467477\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:58:08","slug":"china-exports-surge-despite-trump-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467477\/","title":{"rendered":"China exports surge despite Trump tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beijing typically combines January and February trade data to adjust for distortions caused by the Lunar New Year holiday, which falls on different dates each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">China&#8217;s exports were boosted by strong demand for electronics while shipments of agricultural and manufactured goods also rose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trade with European countries grew by 27.8%, while exports to Asean countries &#8211; a group of South East Asian nations including Thailand, Singapore and Philippines &#8211; climbed by nearly 30%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But China&#8217;s exports to America fell more than 10% as Trump imposed tariffs and other measures to address trade imbalances between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last week, China set an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cqxddwl93qjo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">annual economic growth target of 4.5%-5%<\/a>, down from its 5% goal in 2025, which had been met largely due to exports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Exports have been the key driver of China&#8217;s economy, lifting it in spite of poor domestic spending and a property slump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The meeting between Trump and Xi come as China, like many country&#8217;s in Asia, is dealing with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c2044vzrdpzo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">economic impact of the US-Israeli war with Iran<\/a>, which has disrupted the global energy market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beijing typically combines January and February trade data to adjust for distortions caused by the Lunar New Year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-467477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}