BEIJING, April 10 (Reuters) - China's consumer prices

fell for the second straight month in March while producer

deflation persisted, as caution grows over the economic outlook

amid mounting tariff risks.

The consumer price index dropped 0.1% last month from a year

earlier, a slower pace than February's 0.7% decline, National

Bureau of Statistics data showed on Thursday. That was below a

Reuters poll forecast for prices to remain flat.

CPI fell 0.4% month-on-month, against a 0.2% fall in

February and missing an estimated 0.3% decline.

The producer price index declined 2.5% in March from a year

earlier, deepening the 2.2% fall in February, and below the

expected 2.3% drop.