the zollstreit with the united states and the slowdown in economic growth, the chinese foreign trade at the end of the heavily taxed. the us dollar exports were measured in december compared to the same month of the previous year by 4.4 percent, as the government said monday in beijing. imports fell even more by 7.6 percent. in addition, the data for november is revised downwards.

the experts had the end of both the - and imports at least slight increases are expected. exports and imports grew in december as bad as for about two years.

the balance sheet for the year 2018 was less cloudy: china's exports rose compared to last year by almost 10 percent, imports increased by nearly 16 percent. however, the surplus was the smallest since five years ago, which also can be regarded as schwächezeichen.

the weak development of foreign trade is both outside and within china, reasons. the slowdown of the global economy in the past few months makes for a lower external demand for chinese goods. on the other hand, the weak imports of china reflects the weakening domestic demand. however, there is also the function of china as the world '„werkbank role: lead china intermediate goods and raw materials from other countries for further processing.
in the financial markets have been existing konjunkturängste, the numbers increased. in asia, most of the stock markets reacted with losses. on the foreign exchange market, the australian and the new zealand dollar, because australia and new zealand have close trade relations with china. in addition, the mood was charged by weak figures on the autoverkäufen in china: figures on monday, the value of sales in the whole year 2018 for the first time in 28 years. the figures were speculation on further policy measures of the chinese government.(徳囯ASK电容器)