China’s manufacturing sector contracted for the sixth straight month in September, the latest sign of pressure from a trade war with the US as tariffs weighed on the wider Asian growth outlook.
The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index was 49.8 in September, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Tuesday, below the 50 mark that separates expansion from decline.
The gauge has been in contraction territory since April, when US President Donald Trump unveiled his “liberation day” tariffs, marking the longest continuous decline since 2019.
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