Pain Spreads From China’s Excess Production

China’s problem with bloated production is ricocheting around the world.

China is producing too much steel, plate glass, chemicals, solar panels and other goods for the domestic market, and usually exports the excess at cut-rate prices. That creates big problems for China’s competitors, who have to cut their prices to compete, slashing profits for everyone. Back in China, producers find cheap loans to keep producing and exporting. That risks inflating China’s credit bubble further – making China’s economy ever-more vulnerable to downturns – and adds even more manufacturing capacity.

There are winners here, of course: consumers, like car and appliance buyers, who may benefit from the lower costs of steel, glass and chemicals used to build consumer goods. But for producers and policymakers, it means tough decisions about how to keep the pain from spreading and putting more companies – and free trade – at risk.

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