| China's monthly trade surplus hit $60.6 billion in February, the government said Sunday, a new record for the world's second-largest economy. Exports leapt 48.3 percent year-on-year to $169.2 billion while imports fell 20.5 percent to $108.6 billion, Customs said on its website.
The country's trade surplus, long a source of tensions with its trading partners, rose above a previous all-time monthly high of $60.0 billion recorded in January. The growth in exports last month was well ahead of the median estimate for a 14 percent jump in a Bloomberg survey of economists...............................................Full Article: Source
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