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China’s exports rose 14.1% year over year in April, beating forecasts and signaling robust manufacturing ahead of the Xi–Trump summit; imports climbed 25.3%, pushing the trade surplus to about $84.8 billion, as high‑end electronics and machinery lead export growth and tariffs appear not to have slowed China’s export engine.
A trade dispute involving Dutch chipmaker Nexperia, critical for auto manufacturing, could lead to auto plant shutdowns and higher car prices, as tensions between the US, China, and the Netherlands threaten the supply of essential automotive chips, exacerbating existing supply chain issues and increasing vehicle costs.
The chair of the US House of Representatives' committee on China has called for trade curbs on Chinese memory chip maker Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT) after Beijing banned the sale of some chips by US-based Micron Technology. Representative Mike Gallagher has urged the US Commerce Department to add CXMT to the entity list and ensure no US technology goes to CXMT, YMTC or other PRC firms operating in this industry. CXMT is China's leading maker of DRAM memory chips and the domestic competitor most likely to benefit if Micron is barred from China's massive chip market.