Report: China Overtakes U.S. as World's Largest IT Supplier

Brussels -- China has overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest exporter of
IT products like computers, laptops, mobile phones and digital cameras,
according to a new report from the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD). The organization said that
China's IT-export market grew by 46% to more than $180 billion last year
-- about $26 billion more than the U.S. (China's figures would have been
even larger had the report included data on goods shipped through Hong
Kong). The OECD also found that IT imports into Asia from Europe and
the U.S. were on the decline. "To manufacture laptops and advanced
mobile phones, China previously relied on electronic components such as
computer chips imported from the EU and U.S.," the OECD said. "These
are now also being increasingly sourced from other Asian countries."
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