U.S.-China Summit This Week
When Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet in Beijing, trade, for once, won’t be the primary topic. Among more severe crises in play are the…
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…
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…
Made in Vietnam (or China)
At a time when trade officials around the…
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…
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…
Trade scholars in a recent paper used Trade Data Monitor data on steel…
China in October dramatically increased imports of fossil fuels, industrial metals and agricultural…
The world’s biggest exporter reported another month of dismal trade figures for June.…
Higher prices for rare-earth minerals and strategic support from the U.S. and other…
Correlations between urea and natural gas pricing can exist during periods when supply…
The world was rocked in 2022 by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, punishing inflation,…