And in 2025, China grew its trade surplus by a fifth to a record $1.2 trillion - equivalent to the GDP of the Netherlands. In 2024, as Trump was rising in election polls, Agilian's clients wanted to get ahead of tariffs and asked the firm to ship products to North American warehouses. Pre-production runs in Penang also started in the middle of the year, with the team learning that "everything takes way, way, longer" than in China.
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