At the giant China import-export fair in Guangzhou this week almost everyone I spoke to said orders from Europe are falling and that's hurting China's exporters.
As the Chinese middle class continues to grow, China will import more goods and services from abroad.
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The U.S. and China each import one-half of their oil requirements, and together account for 35 percent of global petroleum consumption.
China will import cheap U.S. gas into Asia, basing prices on spot market fundamentals rather than expensive oil indexed gas contracts.
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At this pace, the U.S. Energy Information Administration has estimated that China will import almost 75% of its crude oil by 2035.
Citigroup reckons China will import 233m tonnes in 2011.
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The raising of the value of the Yuan can make it less expensive for China to import oil and other commodities but can also increase the price of oil to the U.S. consumers as the value of the dollar continues to decline.
One more doubling of import demand and China will be wanting to import 600 million tons per year, about the total amount of coal exported by all exporting nations last year.
The big example of all these trends is China, whose import thirst lights up the charts.
China's import growth is a reminder of the country's huge but nascent purchasing power.
At the same time there will be a rise in prices of capital- and skill-intensive goods and services which China needs to import.
It is currently cheaper, an Indian businessman says ruefully, to export plastic granules to China and then import them again in bucket-form, than it is to make buckets in India.
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The two Asian giants are demanding more food (and more types of food), but so far their own farmers have largely satisfied that, so they have not needed to trade much (though that would change dramatically if China were to import wheat this year).
Large, state-controlled lenders China Development Bank Corp. and Export-Import Bank of China are planning to pitch dim-sum bonds in London to investors, said people familiar with the matter.
China recently began to import some African-manufactured value-added goods, such as processed foods and household consumer goods.
Oil -- which China has had to import since 1993, and which the area may contain -- seems only a small part of the reason.
Admittedly these gains for developed economies are being partly offset by higher prices for oil and other raw materials, which China also needs to import (of which more in the next article).
Given the uncertainty of future demand for these vehicles in China, it is not surprising that few foreign manufacturers are willing to import these vehicles or their parts (which are still subject to WTO-allowed import tariffs) for sale in China.
Moreover, the U.S. is in fifth place in terms of import markets for China.
They are likely to soften prices to clear up their stocks, which may slow import activities in China.
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The import surge from China did not begin until years after U.S. producers began to cultivate the Chinese industry.
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For example, production of an iPhone is spread across several countries yet in U.S. trade statistics it counts as an import only from China.
Thus far Hilong has been able to fulfill its staffing needs from within the UAE, and has not had to import workers from China.
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Due for completion in 2013, it will take gas from Myanmar's offshore Shwe field and will have the capacity to satisfy 10% of China's oil-import needs.
Lower commodity prices means lower costs for important resources like oil and sugar, and therefore lower import costs for China and India, both battling with high inflation.
Unable to secure all the iron ore they need from Australia, a traditional source, traders in China have recently started to import from such places as Brazil.
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