Shake-up in Global Steel
The world of steel trade is in for a shake-up. New climate rules in Europe, the prospect of ramped-up U.S. tariffs on steel and an excess…
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,…
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…
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.…
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,…
The Covid-19 pandemic has cast a pall over clothing retail markets in the…