Export ordErS to US At CAnton FAIr down

BEIJING — Export orders to the United States at China’s latest Canton fair dropped 30.3 per cent from a year earlier by value, the fair’s organiser China Foreign Trade Center said, as China’s trade row with its biggest trading partnet escalated. Export orders to Australia and Canada fell 8.9 per cent and 7.3 per cent, respectively, at the autumn session of the Canton fair, which is held twice a year in Guangzhou in southern Guangdong province.

However, outbound orders to Japan, ASEAN countries, BRICS and South Korea showed a yearon-year rise, China Foreign Trade Center said in a statement on its website on Sunday. —