Vietnam’s Moment in (Trade) Time
The wars in Iran and Ukraine, and trade turmoil around the world, especially involving the U.S. and China, have obscured what continues to be one…
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…
Why China is Still Buying
If you’re pessimistic about global trade, you’ve likely…
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…
China’s Economy
When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, the move…
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…
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,…
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…
Middle East: The Big Picture
In 2024, the Middle East has been hit…
China’s electric car export boom has fueled demand in the country for automobile…
In a tricky global economy, Vietnamese exports shrank in 2023, but the rising…
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…
The world’s biggest exporter reported another month of dismal trade figures for June.…
Correlations between urea and natural gas pricing can exist during periods when supply…