{"id":167183,"date":"2025-09-19T07:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167183\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T07:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:46:07","slug":"explainer-which-chinese-regions-are-being-hit-hardest-by-us-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167183\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer | Which Chinese regions are being hit hardest by US tariffs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the trade war between the world\u2019s two largest economies drags on, the impact is already showing: China\u2019s exports to the United States <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3324687\/chinas-exports-growth-slows-august-under-shadow-trade-war-uncertainty?module=Economic%20Indicators&amp;pgtype=section?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">were down 15.5 per cent<\/a> year on year in the first eight months of 2025.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But US tariffs are not affecting China equally. The country is made up of more than 30 provincial-level regions, and there is a wide divergence between these areas both in terms of their exposure to the US market and the effect of the trade war.<\/p>\n<p>Some provinces have recorded steep drops in US exports; others have continued to see shipments soar \u2013 in some cases by <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3325997\/chinas-xinjiang-logs-265-jump-us-exports-despite-multiple-restrictions?module=top_story&amp;pgtype=section?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">as much as 265 per cent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This explainer provides a regional-level overview of China\u2019s response to US tariffs \u2013 showing which regions are most vulnerable and how local governments and companies are adapting. It is based on calculations and research by economists at CIB Research, a research institute affiliated with the Fujian-based Industrial Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Which regions have the highest exposure to the US market?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s export hubs on the country\u2019s eastern coastline dominate trade with the United States. Six coastal regions \u2013 Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Shandong and Fujian \u2013 together accounted for nearly 80 per cent of China\u2019s exports to the US in value terms during the first seven months of 2025, according to CIB Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the trade war between the world\u2019s two largest economies drags on, the impact is already showing: China\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,86359,1202,144,39799,100687,12,1076,63684,544,100690,100686,2344,24628,100689,3,100688,21,19,22,20,25,74241,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-167183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-anhui","10":"tag-asean","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-chongqing","13":"tag-cib-research","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-fujian","17":"tag-guangdong","18":"tag-henan","19":"tag-hubei","20":"tag-india","21":"tag-jiangsu","22":"tag-lu-zhengwei","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-sichuan","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-us-tariff","31":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}