The global airfreight industry wrapped up 2025 on a historic high, setting record volumes even amid persistent geopolitical uncertainty, tariff disruptions,

Global financial markets have opened 2026 with contrasting trade patterns that reflect deeper structural changes reshaping international trade relationships. Investors are grappling with unprecedented challenges as traditional economic patterns give way to ...

This paper introduces the Bilateral Trade in Services (BiTS) research dataset. BiTS draws primarily on the non-estimated trade values from the OECD-WTO Balanced Trade in Services (BaTIS) database, which serves as the cornerstone of this work. By ...

The rewiring of global trade is not a temporary disruption, but a structural shift with enduring implications. Rising tariffs, export controls, and investment restrictions are reconfiguring established trade and investment patterns. Regional manufacturing ...

Concerns about a trade war between China and the US have shaken the global air cargo industry, with high-value transpacific shipping slowing through the Northern Hemisphere spring. Future demand is difficult to predict as the world’s two largest ...

Jeff Bartel is chairman and managing director of Hamptons Group, a private investment and strategic advisory firm headquartered in Miami. New tariffs are influencing global real estate investment strategies as investors reevaluate their capital deployment ...

Bilateral trade balances may not matter economically. For example, skeptics of the $100 billion drop in imports from China last year may say goods were routed to the US via Mexico or Vietnam. But that doesn’t seem to be the case. Skeptics may say China ...

The US is reliant on a complex network of intertwined global supply chains for its substantial imports of arms and ammunition - supply chains that include China, for now. As the US de-risks its trading relationship with China, the door will open for other ...