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China Posts A Record-Shattering Trade Deficit For February
Joe Weisenthal | Mar. 11, 2012, 2:43 PM | 1,169 | 12
The big economic news over the weekend: China has posted a massive trade deficit for February.
Via Nomura's Zhiwei Zhang and Wendy Chen, here are some key numbers:
February's trade deficit was $31.5 billion. That's far bigger than the previous record $7.9 billion.
The cause was very weak exports, which fell 23.6% month-over-month. The Lunar New obviously had a lot to do with that.
For the combined January-February period -- which attempts to blend out the impact of the Lunar New Year crossing two weeks and coming at different times each year -- export growth of 6.8% since the year 2000 (excluding 2009, of course).
On the bright side, import growth of 39.6% year over year was far better than the decline of 15.3% in January... this may be a harbinger of a new pickup in exports.
In light of the Chinese trade deficit, the Aussie trade deficit, and the Japanese trade deficit, you might be asking as some are: Who has the trade surplus? The answer, we're guessing, is: The oil states.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/china-trade-deficit-february-2012-3#ixzz1oqmzsabk
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