China’s exports jump 15.3 percent in May

2:01 pm | Sunday, June 10th, 2012

A Chinese worker operates a machine at a factory in Binzhou, northeast China's Shandong province. China's exports and imports shot up in May year-on-year, the customs agency said Sunday defying expectations amid a slowdown in the world's second largest economy. AFP

BEIJING – China’s exports jumped in May from a year earlier, the government said Sunday, although the increase was unlikely to be enough to ease pressure on the country’s leaders to reverse a sharp economic slump.

Export growth climbed a robust 15.3 percent compared to May 2011, up from April’s 4.9 percent, while imports climbed 12.1 percent year on year compared with the previous month’s increase of 0.3 percent, according to customs data.

China’s global trade surplus widened to $18.7 billion.

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http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W6BSQWWPOC6TYK4QLMVYJHPFMA sov

Investors Beware!, do your DD (due diligence) first before wasting your money with them. Just don’t let me say, “I told you so”!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VDMUJ6NKKCLWRMVMJRLJFI633I Rene V

this shows we have a very free web within a very free society. i wonder if we can access weibo to talk to Chinese citizens about freedom of speech? it has always been a one way traffic with these political publicists. they write to destroy us, to degrade our regard for our country but at the same time hiding behind some “legal arguments” but never giving in to logical reasoning. i wish we could take out these locusts including the wannabe US taxpayer.
renato_dangal

what is the relevance of this report to the Philippine society?

http://profile.yahoo.com/7HUOPYIQADP6CURIMASGA67VW4 W.E.

whoa you must have been born yesterday. We are now living in an age of internationalism, globalism. Bariers have effectively been broken down already. Im sure you are not a businessman because you dont have a grasp of this. China is now a very big trading partner and a world power in economy whether we like it or not. When they fall, the world will have to bear its impact. Thats why their growth is being monitored, together with the developments in europe particularly Greece and Spain, and our economy is tied up with global developments, again whether we like it or not. so unless we can harness our minds into thinking globally, we can never move forward as a nation.

renato_dangal

globalism and internationalism when all you spoke about is china? eat your report.

China’s exports jump 15.3 percent in May

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