Global Slowdown – 70% Of China’s Export Partners Saw Orders Plunge
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
05/03/2013
We discussed previously the slowing of the global economy and the drag on global trade and it appears that despite some hope-ridden headline data from China, things are definitely troubling under the surface. As Bloomberg Brief’s Michael McDonough notes, while superficially, export growth was a rare bright spot in the first quarter, it may have been exaggerated by exporters inflating invoices. Excluding exports to Hong Kong, March’s export growth would have fallen 4.8 percent year-on-year compared with the reported 10 percent. China’s exports to 14 of its top 20 trading partners declined in March year-on-year. Tepid global demand may continue to weigh on China’s exports and domestic economy – and in its vicious cycle manner, feed back into global growth (and stain the US ‘clean’ shirt).
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