China Import Expo 2025 Shatters Records: $40B Deals, US Firms Return After Xi–Trump Summit – Experts Sound Off
The CIIE is China’s flagship trade fair to demonstrate “free trade credentials” and attract importsreuters.comscmp.com. Premier Li stressed high-level opening-up, promising to keep China’s economy “fairer and more transparent”reuters.com. Reuters notes Li said rising tariffs “are seriously undermining international economic and trade rules”reuters.com. He repeated China’s commitment to increase imports of “high quality products” and let global companies expand with confidencereuters.com. This year’s expo will coincide with dozens of Hongqiao Economic Forum conferences on global economic governance. Shanghai’s Liu Liang calls the expo a chance to see “innovative technologies” that will “boost the new productive forces” in Shanghaiscmp.com. With Sino–US tensions easing, American businesses have been encouraged back. The South China Morning Post reports “more than a dozen agricultural producers from US breadbasket regions” and several US multinationals set up boothsscmp.com. State delegations and trade officials are attending. Participants told SCMP they expect a bidding war of orders, leveraging the “renewed rapport” after the Xi–Trump meetingscmp.com. Li’s visible interest in US exhibits – he visited American company pavilions – is meant to “send a clear signal to US and global businesses that China’s vast consumer market remains an investment magnet”scmp.com. In sum, observers say the expo will be an early
