Citibank: China’s trade performance to be impacted by headwinds
|Citibank’s analysis team suggests that China’s trade performance in 2019 will be weighed down by strong headwinds, in spite of the robust trade data in January.
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“The outcome of US & China trade talks on 1 Mar will swing significantly on our outlook.”
“If the two countries were to reach a minimal agreement with no additional 15% tariffs being levied on the US$200bn Chinese exports to the US, the sentiment on China economy would likely improve.”
“Foreign manufacturing MNCs may slow their pace to move out of China; RMB could continue its current appreciation path on the expected April bond index inclusion by Bloomberg-Barclays & reweighting of MSCI.”
“If both countries were unable to reach an agreement, growth slowdown would intensify & USDCNY could depreciate towards 7 again. In response, the Chinese government would announce more aggressive policy stimuli to mitigate the negative impact from tariffs.”
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