China Exports Rise 16.4 Percent Imports up 20.3 Percent in March

  • 13-Apr-2017
  • China Exports Rise 16.4 Percent Imports up 20.3 Percent in March

BEIJING: China's March exports rose 16.4 percent from a year earlier, while imports increased 20.3 percent, both exceeding market expectations, official data showed on Thursday.

Customs data on Thursday showed exports rose 16.4 percent from a year earlier to $180.6 billion, up from 4 percent growth in the first two months of the year. Imports rose 20.3 percent to $156.6 billion, down from the January-February rate of 26.4 percent.

That left the country with a trade surplus of $23.93 billion for the month, the General Administration of Customs said, reversing a rare deficit in February.

Exports in the first quarter of the year rose 8.2 percent from the same period last year, while imports surged 24.0 percent.

China's first-quarter trade surplus was $65.61 billion.

Analysts polled by Reuters had expected March exports rose 3.2 percent on-year, after a surprise drop of 1.3 percent in February.

Imports had been expected to grow 18.0 percent, after a blowout 38.1 percent expansion the previous month.

Analysts had expected China to return to a surplus of $10.0 billion in March, versus February's $9.15 billion deficit.

China's economic data in January and February can be highly skewed by the timing of the long Lunar New Year holidays, when offices and factories shut for a week or more.

Source: Timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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