{"id":187766,"date":"2026-05-09T03:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187766\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T03:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:45:10","slug":"china-says-exports-grew-at-faster-pace-in-april-rising-14-1-from-a-year-ago-ap-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187766\/","title":{"rendered":"China says exports grew at faster pace in April, rising 14.1% from a year ago | Ap-business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG (AP) \u2014 China\u2019s exports rose 14.1% in April from a year earlier, the government said Saturday, despite the Iran war and lingering impacts from higher U.S. tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>The data were released just days ahead of a planned meeting next week between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>That beat analysts\u2019 estimates and was a significant improvement from March\u2019s 2.5% year-on-year expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Imports climbed 25.3%, slower than the 27.8% growth in March but still robust.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump-Xi summit comes at a time when relations are beset by multiple issues, with efforts to end the war in Iran eclipsing the usual sources of friction.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONG KONG (AP) \u2014 China\u2019s exports rose 14.1% in April from a year earlier, the government said Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,60,83776,38,10222,59042,301],"class_list":["post-187766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-business","tag-china-trade-exports-growth-april","tag-general-news","tag-international-trade","tag-iran-war","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}