Imports to China plummeted a dramatic 43.1 per cent in a further indication of sharply lower demand in the Chinese economy over the last few months which has caused unemployment to soar. Both figures were worse than expected.
January was the third month in a row in which Chinese exports fell. But the pace of decline accelerated from the 2.8 per cent drop in December and the decline in imports was also much sharper than the 21.3 per cent contraction in December.
Economists cautioned that the January trade figures partly reflected the earlier lunar new year holiday this year, which meant there were fewer working days than in the same month the year before. The full picture will become clear only when February's data become available.
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