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…
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…
Shake-up in Global Steel
The world of steel trade is in for a…
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…
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…
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…
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,…