Foreign trade poised for steady growth amid headwinds
China DailyBy Zhong Nan and Ouyang Shijia in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2024-11-08 07:09 China's foreign trade in goods 2024. CHINA DAILY China's foreign trade will sustain steady growth for the remainder of 2024 and exporters should prepare for potential challenges, including higher tariffs, by enhancing product competitiveness and expanding sales in emerging markets, government officials and market observers said on Thursday. China's foreign trade increased 5.2 percent year-on-year to 36.02 trillion yuan in the January-October period, while its exports rose 6.7 percent on a yearly basis to 20.8 trillion yuan, statistics released on Thursday by the General Administration of Customs showed. Customs data show that the value of China's electromechanical product exports, including electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries and integrated circuits, reached 12.36 trillion yuan in the first 10 months, up 8.5 percent year-on-year. "While the demand from traditional markets such as Europe and the United States is slowing and protectionist policies have caused some disruptions to China's foreign trade, global demand — driven by many countries' ongoing urbanization, industrialization and consumption upgrade — is still expanding," Zhou said.