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China's retail sales of consumer goods went up 4.3 percent year on year in the first 10 months of 2025, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Friday.

According to customs statistics, China’s goods trade continued its steady expansion in the first ten months of 2025, with total imports and exports reaching RMB 37.31 trillion, up 3.6 % year on year. Exports rose 6.2 % to RMB 22.12 trillion, while imports were broadly flat at RMB 15.19 trillion. In October alone, total trade stood at RMB 3.7 trillion (+0.1 %), with exports of RMB 2.17 trillion (–0.8 %) and imports of RMB 1.53 trillion (+1.4 %), marking the fifth consecutive monthly increase in imports.

On the 5th, the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council released two key notices adjusting the additional tariffs imposed on certain U.S.-origin imports.

“These ‘food-access passports’ are the brand-new protocols we have just signed with partner countries under the cooperation mechanism—giving 15 more agri-food products the green light to enter China,” Vice Minister of Customs Zhao Zenglian told reporters at the 2025 Belt and Road Customs Food-Safety Partnership Conference.

The China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) 3.0 upgrade shows China's and ASEAN's resolve to jointly build an open, inclusive, and rules-based regional integrated market and a resilient regional industrial and supply chain system that delivers mutual benefits, and will inject more confidence and momentum into regional and global economic growth.

Ottawa blinked first in its trade fight with Washington and Beijing, quietly rolling back duties on selected steel and aluminium imports from both countries to ease pressure on domestic industry.

At the State Council Information Office press conference on 13 October, Vice Minister of Customs Wang Jun said that despite multiple headwinds, China’s exports have maintained robust growth this year, rising more than 7% in the first three quarters and expanding for eight consecutive quarters.

n a recent address to the foreign-affairs committee, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sent an unusually upbeat signal toward Beijing—a stark contrast to his declaration during April’s election campaign that China is Canada’s “greatest threat.” Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly has also announced an imminent visit to China, saying she wants to improve bilateral ties and explore potential cooperation on trade and other issues.

Russia’s central bank has announced that restrictions on foreign-currency cash withdrawals will remain in force until 9 March 2026. First introduced in March 2022 and rolled over every six months since, the curbs are being kept in place, the bank said, in direct response to continuing Western sanctions against Russia.