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…
The Chinese export juggernaut finally started to show the impact of protectionism and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
After a tepid recovery in 2023, Vietnam’s trade machine appears to be firing…
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…
Don’t let anybody tell you that globalization is dying—at least, not yet.
Global…
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…
A recent Financial Times article, based on data supplied by Trade Data Monitor,…
Trade scholars in a recent paper used Trade Data Monitor data on steel…