08 January 2010 - 08H20  

China is top world exporter ahead of Germany
Containers wait to be loaded at a port in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. China is now the world's leading exporter ahead of Germany, trade figures released on Friday by the German national statistics office showed.
Containers wait to be loaded at a port in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. China is now the world's leading exporter ahead of Germany, trade figures released on Friday by the German national statistics office showed.

AFP - China is now the world's leading exporter ahead of Germany, trade figures released on Friday by the German national statistics office showed.

In the 11 months from January to November, Chinese exports reached a total value of 1.07 trillion dollars, while German exports amounted to 734.6 billion euros, or 1.05 trillion dollars, the data showed.

In November, the German trade surplus nonetheless climbed to 17.2 billion euros, according to seasonally corrected figures from the Destatis service, from 13.6 billion in October amid a pick up in global trade.

Germany is slowly recovering from its worst recession since World War II, but its economy, the biggest in Europe, is nonetheless expected to have contracted by around five percent in 2009.

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