Trade practitioners in government, academia, research institutes and businesses will be pleased to know that the Statistics Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs has developed a ...

Explore wholesale trade, its role as an economic indicator, and how sales and inventory data can predict future business trends and impact the economy.

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The United States, like the U.K., is a services driven economy. So it follows, at ...

The world trade flows data were compiled by Robert Feenstra of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Two versions of the data are available. The most recent version of the data covers the ...

MIGHT Donald Trump’s promise to shake up America’s trade policy extend to its statistics? According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, discussions are afoot on changing the way trade figures are ...

The United States set records for total merchandise trade, total imports and its trade deficit in 2024, but fell 0.09% short of the export record, according to my analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data ...

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“Undoubtedly, the most critical aspect of protecting trade secrets and managing private data is being proactive.” Innovation continues across industries at a rapid pace. Many companies maintain highly ...

India's merchandise trade deficit declined to a five-month low of $24.53 billion in November, driven by a fall in gold, oil ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The most important part of the IMF’s latest assessment of China is—alas—the ...

Endcap displays, temporary price reductions, circular ads… Trade promotions aren’t sexy, but they still get the lion’s share of marketing dollars, accounting for nearly 44% of packaged goods companies ...

After its biggest earnings miss in two years and stock plunge, Target laid some of the blame on the recent U.S. ports strike, citing higher freight costs it absorbed as a result of preemptive action ...