Ministry Warns China’s Export Growth Faces ‘Unprecedented Difficulties’

What’s new: Growth in China’s foreign trade this year is facing “unprecedented difficulties” stemming from both supply and demand uncertainties, an official at the Ministry of Commerce warned.

Global demand could be affected by a delay in the global economic recovery amid Covid-19 outbreaks, Li Xingqian, head of the ministry’s Department of Foreign Trade, said at a press briefing on Tuesday.