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China's latest trade data, released ahead of a planned meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping on extending the tariff truce, shows an export surge that positions the country for a record annual trade surplus.
The timing places those figures at the center of negotiations over whether the bilateral framework that has governed trade conditions continues to hold.
The constraint in any active tariff truce is the expiration structure embedded in it. Agreed-upon rates lower the effective cost of market access for exporters operating within the window.
Exporters calibrate production and logistics against the assumption those rates hold for the window's duration.
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