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It turns out trade wars are not so easy to win. The Trump administration has had no real success with China, Canada and Mexico, and is in no

A lack of certainty makes life more complex for most people. Unfortunately, uncertainty is to be found everywhere one looks at present.

We have previously highlighted the difficulty of running economic forecasting models that cannot absorb the wild deviations caused by geo-po

The reality of the Trump administration’s concerted attack on trade and its linkage of trade to the U.S. deficit is finally beginning to...

The back-and-forth incremental increases in US import tariffs and retaliations against US exports continued through July and into August....

The risk of new US trade policy having rapid impacts on US container trade volumes this year seems to have dissipated some in April. The...

There is nothing good about a trade war. It is a vicious circle of retaliation where there are no winners, only losers. President Trump...

The first victims of the Administration’s trade war will be ocean carriers, ports, terminals, truckers, and railroads. There are seldom...

Do the new US steel and aluminum import tariffs threaten the baseline forecasts of US import container volumes this year? That question...

Fixation on the negative balance of payments in trade has created a clear and present threat to global trade. What started out as an...