Currently, Sino-U.S. trade frictions have limited impact on China’s foreign trade sector, the ministry said in a statement on its website, while noting that the relatively high base for trade data in the last quarter in 2017 is expected to have an adverse impact on China’s export and import growth in the same period this year.

In another report on China’s services import situation in 2018, the commerce ministry reiterated its pledge to further ease market access restrictions for the services sector.