STEVE INSKEEP, host: NPR's business news starts with China exporting more and more.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: China's trade surplus surged last month to its second-highest level of the year. Beijing says that in October, it exported $27 billion more than it bought from other countries. That's in one month. The imbalance is on the minds of world leaders gathering in Seoul for the G-20 summit. That's the gathering of major world economic leaders.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: The early debate there over global trade was so fiery, or so we're told, that negotiators had to leave the door open to keep the meeting room from overheating.
China's trade surplus surged last month to its second highest level of the year. Beijing says that in October, it exported $27 billion more than it bought from other countries — an imbalance that is on the minds of world leaders gathering in Seoul for the G-20 summit.