China 'overtakes' US as world’s largest goods trader

[dipsydoodle]

China has claimed that it is "very likely" that it overtook the US as the world's top trading nation, a title the US has held for decades.

According to the latest data, China's total trade grew at an annual rate of 7.6% to $4.16tn (£2.5tn) last year.

The US is yet to release it full-year figures, but its trade for the first 11 months of 2013 totalled $3.5tn.

China became the world's biggest goods exporter in 2009. Its imports have also risen amid an expansion in its economy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25678415

[MADem]

1. Wouldn't surprise me at all--they have a nation of people who have gone from

all wearing the same "Mao costume" to a swarm of inveterate consumers....so they're buying, and they're selling!

I don't trust their shit, though--they sell pet food that kills pets. A plastic gee-gaw, sure, but they have a confidence gap in the food/medicines sector...