Trade
China Is Days Late in Releasing Trade Data as US Shipping Slumps
Container ships and gantry cranes at the Yangshan Deepwater Port in Shanghai in 2024.
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China is yet to announce regular statistics on trade flows for last week, delaying a closely watched data set as firms cut back on exports to the US.
The weekly Ministry of Transport report on the volume of trade is usually released each Monday but remained absent from its website as of 11 a.m. local time on Wednesday. The data published last week showed that China’s ports processed a total of 6.3 million standard 20-foot containers, 10% more than in the same period last year, according to Bloomberg calculations.