U.S.-China Summit This Week
When Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet in Beijing, trade, for once, won’t be the primary topic. Among more severe crises in play are the…
Lower Growth in China
In early March, Chinese leadership set their lowest gross…
One way of looking at China’s trade economy in December and for the…
Happy New Year. While we wait on the Supreme Court to rule whether the Trump…
The Trillion-Dollar Surplus
After falling year-on-year in October, China’s exports rebounded in November…
The Chinese export juggernaut finally started to show the impact of protectionism and…
China Cuts Coal Imports
For years, as governments around the world embraced clean…
Trade in a Time of Geopolitical Adjustment
The focus of the global trade…
Shake-up in Global Steel
The world of steel trade is in for a…
This week’s election of Donald Trump as the U.S.’s 47th president is almost…
The politics of trade in the U.S. have gotten complicated during this century,…
The conversation about global trade often leaves out the world’s fourth biggest economy…
During a summer that’s been a boon for free trade despite a looming…
As the business world girds for a fresh wave of trade protectionism and…
More Tariffs on the Horizon
There seems to be no end to the…
After a tepid recovery in 2023, Vietnam’s trade machine appears to be firing…
China’s electric car export boom has fueled demand in the country for automobile…
Don’t let anybody tell you that globalization is dying—at least, not yet.
Global…
In a tricky global economy, Vietnamese exports shrank in 2023, but the rising…
As we enter the third year after the invasion of Ukraine, the landscape…
In the somewhat gloomy December and annual China trade statistics released in the…
It’s not an easy time for global trade--the roughly $25 trillion piece of…
Trade scholars in a recent paper used Trade Data Monitor data on steel…
As expected, China reported lackluster trade numbers this week, signaling a possible recession…