China recorded a trade surplus of 90.07 USD Billion in October of 2025. This dataset provides - China Balance of Trade - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Context

This Dataset presents New Zealand’s daily export trade with China from 27 January 2020. It compares 2020 values with those from previous years, to show the potential impacts of COVID-19 since its outbreak in late 2019.

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https://www.stats.govt.nz/experimental/provisional-indications-effects-of-coronavirus-outbreak-on-new-zealand-trade-with-china

Content

Imports from China The cumulative total value of imports from China alone in the past four weeks and one day to 29 February 2020 was about $775 million . This is about $169 million less than for the same period in 2019 .

Daily trade for 1 February–29 February 2020 (published 10 March 2020) Imports from China (experimental, published 10 March 2020) CSV files include imports from China, including key exports of meat, seafood, dairy, and forestry products. The data is provisional and should be regarded as an early, indicative estimate of intentions to export only, subject to revision. These are not official statistics, but an effort to provide the latest available trade data at a time of heightened interest in trade with China. The data compares the four weeks and a day up to 29 February 2020 against previous years. This allows for an estimate to be made of what may have happened to exports, if they had followed typical patterns in the past four weeks.

Acknowledgements

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Inspiration

The Global trade impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Epidemic . “The spread of the new coronavirus is a public health crisis that could pose a serious risk to the macro economy through the halt in production activities, interruptions of people's movement and cut-off of supply chains” - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso. G20 gathering in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 24, 2020. " Besides its worrying effects on human life, the novel strain of coronavirus (COVID-19) has the potential to significantly slowdown not only the Chinese economy but also the global economy. China has become the central manufacturing hub of many global business operations. Any disruption of China’s output is expected to have repercussions elsewhere through regional and global value chains. https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/ditcinf2020d1.pdf

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