Chinese exports increased by 4.3 per cent in December compared to the same month last year, while imports rose by 8.3 per cent. That gave China a total of $4.16tn in combined exports and imports in 2013, a figure that the US will find difficult to match. This leaves no doubt that China, the world’s second-biggest economy, is now the world’s biggest trading nation on an annual basis. (Read more… http://blogs.ft.com/ftdata/2014/01/10/china-and-us-battle-for-trade-leadership/)

(English, Article, 2014)

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