This week’s election of Donald Trump as the U.S.’s 47th president is almost certainly likely to lead to another trade war with China, and further tariffs on American imports. During…
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There seems to be no end to the…
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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…
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Trade scholars in a recent paper used Trade Data Monitor data on steel…
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