Africa: China-Africa Trade Drops By 14% in the First Quarter of 2020

Trade between China and Africa plummeted by around 14 per cent estimated at $41 billion in the first three months of 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, according to official figures released by China's General Administration of Customs.

The Chinese economy shrunk by 6.8 per cent in the first quarter of the year as the country was on lockdown.

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