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China Overtakes Germany as World's Biggest Exporter

   Meantime,  China's total foreign trade, both exports and imports, fell
   13.9 percent in 2009

   VOA News 10 January 2010

   Chinese officials say the country's exports surged in December to edge
   out Germany as the world's biggest exporter.
   The  official Xinhua news agency reported Sunday that figures from the
   General  Administration  for  Customs  showed that exports jumped 17.7
   percent in December from a year earlier.
   Huang  Guohua,  a statistics official with the customs administration,
   said  the  December exports rebound was an important turning point for
   China's export sector.
   Huang  added  that  the  jump  was  an  indication that exporters have
   emerged from their downslide.
   However,  although  China  overtook  Germany in exports, China's total
   foreign  trade  --  both  exports  and imports -- fell 13.9 percent in
   2009.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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