The value of EM exports continued to fall in annual terms in December, with oil producers faring especially poorly. The early signs are that Asia's manufacturing-oriented economies will report weak trade figures for January, but this will be due in large part to the timing of Chinese New Year. This should prove temporary and once the dust settles we expect the outperformance of EM manufacturing exporters over EM commodity exporters to continue.
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