AI is Still Driving Trade
Despite an increase in protectionism and tariffs, global trade has persisted at a steady pace thanks to a boom in sales of new technologies related…
U.S.-China Summit This Week
When Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet in…
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…
The Chinese export juggernaut finally started to show the impact of protectionism and…
The Trillion-Dollar Surplus
In 2024, China recorded the biggest global trade surplus in…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Trade scholars in a recent paper used Trade Data Monitor data on steel…