Lower Growth in China
In early March, Chinese leadership set their lowest gross domestic product growth target since 1991, forecasting a 4.5% to 5% expansion for its economy in 2026. …
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…
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…
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…
This week’s election of Donald Trump as the U.S.’s 47th president is almost…
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…
More Tariffs on the Horizon
There seems to be no end to the…
After a tepid recovery in 2023, Vietnam’s trade machine appears to be firing…
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.…
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…