In September, a container ship set sail from China to the United Kingdom via the Northern Sea Route, marking a change in decades of shipping industry practice. The route has been used before, if ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with former US trade representative and Council on Foreign Relations President Michael Froman about how global trade moves forward in the midst of President Trump's tariffs.

In January 2025, 17 international business students from Saint Louis University traveled abroad for the second annual undergraduate Global Immersion course in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Two of these ...

Along with a sharply downgraded projection for global output this year, it urged a “course correction” on trade to help preserve living standards. By Alan Rappeport Reporting from Washington The ...

President Trump has long wanted to rework world trade. The tariffs set to go into effect next week will carry out that plan. By Ana Swanson Ana Swanson has written about international trade for over a ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The U.S. trade data for 2024 makes clear that the U.S. trade deficit was expanding ...

Serkan Arslanalp, Seung Mo Choi, Parisa Kamali, Robin Koepke, Matthew McKetty, Michele Ruta, Mario Saraiva, Alessandra Sozzi, and Jasper Verschuur. "Nowcasting Global Trade from Space", IMF Working ...

Global economic growth is on track for its weakest decade since the 1960s, according to a new analysis by the World Bank, which cites President Donald Trump’s trade war as a major factor weighing on ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -The share of global trade done on WTO terms has fallen to 72% and could fall further, amid the biggest disruption to the international trading system in the past 80 years, the ...

Growth in outlook based on non-US trade growth India, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines are forecast to lead in trade growth from 2024 to 2029 Tariffs could reset global trade alliances, put key ...