TREE NEWS update: China’s foreign trade reached 34.8 trillion yuan in the first eight months of 2025, up 17.6% year on year, the Ministry of Commerce said at a Sept. 18 briefing on the 140th Canton Fair. Exports rose 14.6% while imports climbed 22%, with import growth clearly outpacing exports. Yang Tao, head of the ministry’s foreign trade department, said the next step is to actively expand imports of high-quality products and promote balanced import-export development.
China’s Jan-Aug Trade Hits 34.8 Trillion Yuan, Imports Up 22%
AI take
The notable signal is the reversal in composition: import growth running well ahead of exports points to firmer domestic demand rather than the export-led pattern markets have grown used to. That matters for anyone positioned around Chinese consumption and for commodity and RWA flows tied to real-economy activity. Whether the import momentum persists, and how far the stated push to expand high-quality imports translates into policy, is the open question.
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