US EditionChina's trade ends 2025 with record trillion-dollar surplus despite Trump tariffs
China's $1.2 trillion surplus in 2025 reflects strong global demand and shifting export markets despite U.S. tariffs, with December exports up 6.6%, customs data showed.
- Dateline Qingdao: trade figures released JANUARY 13, 2026 show China's exports surged 5.9% in December, beating analysts' 3% estimate, and the annual trade surplus reached a record high.
- Exporters shifted shipments to non‑U.S. markets, prompting concern from the European Union, while an October rollback of export controls and tariffs after a Xi–Trump meeting eased trade frictions.
- The IMF's Kristalina Georgieva urged Beijing to reduce export dependence and boost domestic consumption, while Zhiwei Zhang expects macro policy to remain unchanged into Q1 amid strong exports.
- Next Monday China will release its annual and fourth-quarter GDP data, with economists polled by Reuters expecting a 4.50% expansion while Beijing targets around 5% growth for 2025.
- The nearly $19 trillion economy faces deflationary pressure and a real estate collapse that weigh on household demand, while consumer prices in 2025 stayed flat, missing the official target of around 2%.
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Despite the tariff dispute with the US and global trade conflicts, China reached a record surplus in foreign trade in 2025. Exports increased significantly, while imports stagnated.[more]]>
Reuters China recorded the largest trade surplus in its history in 2025, a 20 percent jump from 2024, culminating in a year when the world’s largest factory challenged US trade pressure and increased exports to other world markets. Overall, China’s foreign trade in goods reached $6.48 billion, as announced by the General Customs Administration on Wednesday, with trade growth for the ninth consecutive year. China’s trade surplus — a measure of ho…
China's foreign trade peaked last year.
China reported on Wednesday a record trade surplus of nearly $1.2 trillion in 2025, led by the boom in exports to non-U.S. markets, as producers seek to build a global scale to defend themselves against sustained pressure from the Trump administration.
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