U.S.-China Summit This Week
When Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet in Beijing, trade, for once, won’t be the primary topic. Among more severe crises in play are the…
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…
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…
In the new age of trade geopolitics, the only certainty is uncertainty. What…
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…
Age of the EV
We’re entering the age of the electric vehicle, and…
After a tepid recovery in 2023, Vietnam’s trade machine appears to be firing…
Don’t let anybody tell you that globalization is dying—at least, not yet.
Global…
In a tricky global economy, Vietnamese exports shrank in 2023, but the rising…
As we enter the third year after the invasion of Ukraine, the landscape…
It’s not been an easy time for international trade, as a recent report…
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…
As global trade putters in 2023, because of weak consumer demand, lingering Covid…
There’s so much focus on the U.S.-China trade relationship and its frequent fireworks…
The steep drop in Vietnam’s exports and imports during the first quarter of…
Vietnam, which has become a global trade powerhouse and one of the global…