Chinese trade data misses big

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China has released its November trade data and the muted recovery continues. Year on year imports were unchanged, expected was 2%, prior 2.4%.

Year on year exports were up 2.9%, expected was 9%, previous was 11.6%.

The trade surplus in November was $19.62 billion, down a measly 40%. Neither external nor internal demand is tearing away.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.