it's a discount for now, but ben deja blackman hopes it will encourage other companies to rethink their own practices to china, where weakening demands from the us. and europe caused a big slum in trade in the 1st 2 months of the year. there. 4 were a notable exception, though exports to rush us 1st almost 20 percent in january and february, reaching a total of $15000000000.00. china has become rush as main economic partner of trade with the european union contracted sharply following functions imposed in response, the war crane. now to break this down for us, let's bring in so tongue hung in taipei. so what's causing the slump in china's trait? o, kate, the numbers confirms china's concern, the slower global growth hinders. the recovery of china's commie. foreign demand is still weak. as china imports a large number of components and materials on for the assembly and production of x 4 products. in particular, chinese imports of semiconductor parts plus 26.5 percent, indicating a contraction in market demand on for our consumer electronics exports, but not just china. other major asian