Chart: China’s growing global trade and current account surpluses, 2001 – 2015 | Economic Policy Institute

Figure F

China’s growing global trade and current account surpluses, 2001 – 2015

2000	Goods trade balance	Current account balance	Manufacturing trade balance
2001	22.55	17.40	45.90
2002	30.43	35.42	55.75
2003	25.47	43.05	68.42
2004	32.10	68.94	114.10
2005	101.75	132.38	207.20
2006	177.58	231.84	315.89
2007	261.56	353.18	458.63
2008	297.04	420.57	597.91
2009	197.62	243.26	449.57
2010	182.07	237.81	582.24
2011	156.33	136.10	738.93
2012	230.77	215.39	866.05
2013	260.95	148.20	941.49
2014	380.08	277.43	1023.42
2015	603.69	330.60

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Note: No manufacturing data for 2015 (update Oct.)

Source: Author's analysis of IMF (2016a) and WTO (2016).

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