China exports jump 60.6% y/y in Jan-Feb, imports up 22.2%

A woman wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus collects aluminum foil mess tins for export at a factory in Suixi in central China's Anhui province on Feb. 22, 2021. China's exports jumped 60.6% in January-February from a year earlier and imports increased 22.2%, faster than expected from depressed 2020 levels, customs data showed on Sunday. - AP

BEIJING, March 7 (Reuters): China's exports jumped 60.6% in January-February from a year earlier and imports increased 22.2%, faster than expected from depressed 2020 levels, customs data showed on Sunday.

Analysts in a Reuters poll had expected exports to surge 38.9% from a year earlier after 18.1% growth in December. They had forecast a 15% jump in imports after a 6.5% increase in December.