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…
Vietnam’s Moment in (Trade) Time
The wars in Iran and Ukraine, and trade…
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…
The Trillion-Dollar Surplus
After falling year-on-year in October, China’s exports rebounded in November…
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…
First Impact of U.S. Tariffs
Chinese shipments to the U.S. plummeted 21% year-on-year…
Rocky Waters
It’s a perilous time for the global trading system. President Trump…
The Trillion-Dollar Surplus
In 2024, China recorded the biggest global trade surplus in…
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,…
Age of the EV
We’re entering the age of the electric vehicle, and…
The Beijing trade engine has been slumping this year amid a tepid global…
China’s electric car export boom has fueled demand in the country for automobile…
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…
As European Union leaders gathered in Beijing Thursday, one of their demands for…
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,…
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…