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China pledged to buy an additional $ 200 billion in US goods over two years, and achieved a real record of overseas purchases (its trade surplus slumped to $ 37 billion from 58.9 billion dollars). the previous month), but all this was not enough. In September, the Asian giant's surplus with Uncle Sam increased further by $ 30.75 billion, according to figures released Tuesday by Chinese Customs, the last before the November 3 presidential election. That is an increase of 18.8% over one year!