China Exports

Exports from China rose by 14.2 percent year-on-year to USD 198.7 billion in March 2019,marking the strongest growth in five months, rebounding sharply from a marginally revised 20.8 percent fall in February, which was the steepest drop in three years, and easily beating market expectations of a 7.3 percent growth. The upturn came in amid improving global demand, trade talk optimism and after Lunar New Year holiday. China's unwrought aluminium and aluminium product exports went up 21.3 percent from a year earlier to 546,000 tonnes and sales of steel products increased 12 percent to 6.33 million tonnes. Additionally, exports of coal jumped 169 percent to 0.57 million tonnes and sales of rice surged 90 percent to 190,000 tonnes. Exports in China averaged 627.13 USD HML from 1981 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 2315.23 USD HML in December of 2017 and a record low of 12.50 USD HML in February of 1983.

Exports in China is expected to be 1840.00 USD HML by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Exports in China to stand at 1750.00 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the China Exports is projected to trend around 2210.00 USD HML in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus
2018-09-08	04:00 AM	Exports YoY	9.8%	12.2%	10.1%
2018-10-12	02:30 AM	Exports YoY	14.5%	9.8%	8.9%
2018-11-08	03:00 AM	Exports YoY	15.6%	14.5%	11%
2018-12-08	03:00 AM	Exports YoY	5.4%	15.6%	10.0%

China Trade	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Balance of Trade	326.47	40.10	612.86	-320.02	USD HML	[+]
Current Account	545.99	232.63	1330.85	-341.00	USD HML	[+]
Current Account to GDP	0.40	1.30	10.10	-3.70	percent	[+]
Imports	1660.25	1311.50	1951.23	13.88	USD HML	[+]
Exports	1986.72	1351.70	2315.23	12.50	USD HML	[+]
External Debt	19652.14	17106.00	19652.14	158.28	USD HML	[+]
Terms of Trade	104.38	99.42	118.33	81.75	Index Points	[+]
Capital Flows	-546.00	168.00	725.40	-1305.58	USD HML	[+]
Foreign Direct Investment	36.19	216.90	1349.70	18.32	USD HML	[+]
Tourist Arrivals	3054.00	2917.00	3054.00	22.96	Tens of Thousands	[+]
Gold Reserves	1864.30	1852.50	1864.30	395.01	Tonnes	[+]
Crude Oil Production	3845.00	3779.00	4408.00	1012.00	BBL/D/1K	[+]
Tourism Revenues	5.97	5.40	5.97	4.13	CNY Trillion	[+]
Terrorism Index	5.11	5.54	6.29	1.47		[+]
Weapons Sales	1131.00	2192.00	2606.00	3.00	USD Million	[+]

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China Exports

Export growth has been a major component supporting China's rapid economic expansion. China major exports are: mechanical and electrical products, high tech products, clothing, textiles, footwear, furniture, plastic products and ceramic, motors and generators and integrated circuits. China’s main export partners are the United States, Hong Kong, the European Union of which Germany, the UK and the Netherlands, ASEAN countries of which Vietnam, Japan, South Korea and India. This page provides - China Exports - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. China Exports - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on April of 2019.