{"id":428232,"date":"2026-03-10T10:26:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/chinas-trade-data-for-january-february-came-in-much-stronger-than-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:26:55","slug":"chinas-trade-data-for-january-february-came-in-much-stronger-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/chinas-trade-data-for-january-february-came-in-much-stronger-than-expected-428232\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s trade data for January\u2013February came in much stronger than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"76\">China\u2019s trade data for January\u2013February came in much stronger than expected.<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"78\" data-end=\"362\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n<li data-section-id=\"1tmigvz\" data-start=\"78\" data-end=\"164\">\n<p data-start=\"80\" data-end=\"164\">Exports (USD terms) rose 21.8% y\/y (expected 7.1%, previous 6.6%).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"1qrep5z\" data-start=\"165\" data-end=\"256\">\n<p data-start=\"167\" data-end=\"256\">Imports (USD terms) increased 19.8% y\/y (expected 6.3%, previous 5.7%).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"1ujxii8\" data-start=\"257\" data-end=\"362\" data-is-last-node=\"\">\n<p data-start=\"259\" data-end=\"362\" data-is-last-node=\"\">Trade balance printed at $213.62B, well above the $179.6B forecast (previous $114.10B).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>                            This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s trade data for January\u2013February came in much stronger than expected. Exports (USD terms) rose 21.8% y\/y (expected 7.1%, previous 6.6%). Imports (USD terms) increased 19.8% y\/y (expected 6.3%, previous 5.7%). Trade&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}