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 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…
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…
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…
September Rain
China posted lackluster trade figures in September, highlighting how it might…
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…
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…
Trade scholars in a recent paper used Trade Data Monitor data on steel…