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Singing the import/export blues

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Another day, another discouraging economic indicator.
On Saturday, Chinese customs released import and export data for January and February.
Surprise! They were bad (Bloomberg):

“The drop in exports was a bigger-than-expected 17.2% in dollar terms, while imports declined 4%.”

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