China’s more than 19% from a year earlier as booming demand for artificial intelligence hardware offsets disruptions from the . Imports soared more than 27% in May, leaving a trade surplus of $105.4 billion, the biggest since January, with companies loading up on foreign chips and equipment. Eric Zhu of Bloomberg Economics said the gains partly reflected higher prices and a low base of comparison tied to last year’s drop in China-US trade ahead of a tariff truce.