One way of looking at China’s trade economy in December and for the full 2025 year is its export surge, amplified by a weak currency, deflation at home, and inflation…
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The Chinese export juggernaut finally started to show the impact of protectionism and…
Global Trade Can Take a Punch
This month, markets have swerved to adjust…
Please Dial a New Number
As U.S. and Chinese negotiators try to find…
Made in Vietnam (or China)
At a time when trade officials around the…
U.S. Market Collapsing For China
As Americans and Chinese officials scrambled to forge…
Trade in a Time of Geopolitical Adjustment
The focus of the global trade…
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…
Age of the EV
We’re entering the age of the electric vehicle, and…
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…
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…
It’s not an easy time for global trade--the roughly $25 trillion piece of…
A recent Financial Times article, based on data supplied by Trade Data Monitor,…
Trade scholars in a recent paper used Trade Data Monitor data on steel…