China's foreign trade maintains strong growth in first 10 months

China's foreign trade maintains strong growth in first 10 months

China's goods trade totaled 44.81 trillion yuan (about $6.7 trillion) in the first 10 months of 2026, up 20% from a year earlier, the General Administration of Customs said Tuesday.

Update: China's foreign trade growth picks up pace on stellar imports, booming AI demand

BEIJING, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- China's foreign trade in goods maintained strong growth momentum in the first 10 months of 2026, with imports posting especially robust gains and booming artificial intelligence (AI) demand lifting exports of electronic components, official data showed Tuesday.Total imports and exports grew 20 percent year on year to 44.81 trillion yuan (about 6.67 trillion U.S. dollars) over the per