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Manufacturers outperforming

Export growth was more or less flat at an EM-wide level in January, but there’s a growing divergence at a country level, with highly-open manufacturing economies in Central Europe and East Asia outperforming. By contrast, commodity producers are faring poorly. Meanwhile, we think it’s unlikely that the collapse in Chinese exports last month heralds a broader slowdown in EM exports.

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