China released eye-popping June trade numbers on Tuesday. “A bit insane,” said Brad Setser of the Council of Foreign Relations, on X. Overall, Chinese exports increased 27% year-on-year to $412.4 billion. Imports…
AI is Still Driving Trade
Despite an increase in protectionism and tariffs, global…
U.S.-China Summit This Week
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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…
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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…
The Trillion-Dollar Surplus
In 2024, China recorded the biggest global trade surplus in…
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…
September Rain
China posted lackluster trade figures in September, highlighting how it might…
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…
After a tepid recovery in 2023, Vietnam’s trade machine appears to be firing…
It’s not been an easy time for international trade, as a recent report…
In the somewhat gloomy December and annual China trade statistics released in the…
As European Union leaders gathered in Beijing Thursday, one of their demands for…
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…