BEIJING (Reuters) – Downward pressure on China’s foreign trade and the global economy is rising due to the coronavirus epidemic, Chinese customs said in a statement on Wednesday.
Customs said stabilising trade growth would be more difficult under the current circumstances and that dealing with coronavirus-related risks at China’s ports would pose a major challenge.
(Reporting by Roxanne Liu, Huizhong Wu and Lusha Zhang; writing by Se Young Lee; editing by John Stonestreet)
