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What does shipping data say about US-China trade disruption?
Official data will come in time, but everyone is impatient and wants information faster. The FT report noted that “scheduled ...
Trump Is Paving the Way for Another ‘China Shock’
The MIT economist David Autor helped fracture the old free-trade consensus. But he thinks that what’s replacing it is even ...
Port of LA executive director says retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left amid U.S.-China trade war
The U.S.-China trade war fallout has begun. The Port of Los Angeles anticipates plummeting cargo traffic until a deal on ...
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How China Armed Itself for the Trade War
The view that the Chinese leadership was desperate to negotiate a trade deal, to avoid economic pain that could destabilize ...
US Senate confirms Trump's new ambassador to China, David Perdue, amid trade war
President Trump had selected David Perdue as the new ambassador for China in December, and since then trade relations between ...
The Latest: Nations must choose sides as Trump's trade war pits US against China
Nations are being forced to choose between siding with China or the U.S. as President Donald Trump’s trade war locks the ...
Trump’s trade war has already sparked a massive cancellation of shipments from China to the U.S.
The Port of Los Angeles, the largest port in the U.S., predicts a 35% drop in shipments, nearly all from China, in a matter ...
Dollar limps along on U.S.-China trade standoff
The dollar barely recouped its heavy losses on Tuesday as investors were no clearer on whether a de-escalation of the ...
China sends a stern video message to Trump: We won’t ‘kneel down’
In a sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump’s trade war, China’s Foreign Ministry posted to social media a striking video that calls on the international community to stand up to America’s “bully” ...