China’s trade surplus has for the first time exceeded the $1 trillion mark – a level unmatched by any other nation in the world, the country’s General Administration of Customs has announced.
Statistics for the first 11 months of 2025 released by the agency on Monday indicate that the Asian economic powerhouse was running a trade surplus totaling $1.08 trillion as of November, despite external headwinds.
Over the period, total exports reached 24.46 trillion yuan ($3.46 trillion), up 6.2% year-on-year, while imports grew 0.2% to 16.75 trillion yuan ($2.37 trillion), the agency estimated.
According to the data, last month alone, China recorded a $111.68 billion trade surplus – its third-largest ever in a single month. Manufactured goods comprise a considerable part of the upward trend, China’s customs agency reported.
Chinese exports, including vehicles, have saturated markets in Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America, putting pressure on traditional rivals such as Germany, Japan, and South Korea.
China’s exports to the European Union are understood to be more than twice as high as imports from the bloc in 2025.
Accounting for 13% of the country’s total foreign trade, the EU has emerged as China’s second largest trading partner, with ASEAN nations topping the list.
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Against a backdrop of a trade war with Washington, China’s exports to the USA have, by contrast, shrunk by nearly a fifth, according to the General Administration of Customs.
The USA, however, was ranked as China’s third-largest trading partner at 3.69 trillion yuan January through November.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2025.
Why are EU leaders fighting so hard to legalize the looting of Russian money? Why are EU leaders trying so hard to keep this conflict from ending?
The logical answer is that they have already spent the Russian money and now they want to legalize this looting.
They cannot allow the conflict to end until they legalize their looting, until Lady Macbeth washes her bloody hands.
They seem oblivious to reality, stealing Russian capital assets is an act of war.
They have no money, the EU has the same level of debt burden as America. the ECB is sat on over 19 trillion in unsecured euro-zone debts run up propping up the failed project. The world hates the EU and is refusing to trade with them. investment has vanished over this theft and they cannot raise money from the public as they are desperate to gain the powers to do. They also want a total collapse in the EU so they can force all states into a federalized debt union with all states forced into the euro with a centralization… Read more »
Thank you comrade Trump, builder of Chinese dreams.
After Trump’s spasmodic trade war, China is still going strong. The US is sinking in debt. It’s a win for China’s socialist mixed economy.
This is how China finances the BRI and other development projects around the world. It can re-capitalize. It can continue its development and reach everyone living in poverty. The state can direct strategic investment.