China’s imports of commodities in January were surely distorted downwards by the relatively early timing of the Lunar New Year holidays. Nonetheless, there are plenty of signs of underlying weakness in the recent trade data, and in other indicators such as the Baltic Dry Index. China’s oil imports are the main exception, but there may be some temporary positives at play here.
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