China’s trade faces more severe, complicated situation in 2019

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s foreign trade will face a more severe and complicated situation in 2019 and government will push the implementation of policies to ease burdens on exporters and importers, the commerce ministry said on Monday. Currently, Sino-U.S. trade frictions have limited impact on China’s foreign trade sector, the ministry said in a statement on its website, while noting that the relatively high base for trade data in the last quarter in 2017 is expected to have an adverse impact on China’s export and import growth in the same period this year. Read more here