Brendan Murray

I’m Brendan Murray, an economics editor in London. Today we’re looking at the year ahead for global trade. Send us feedback and tips to [email protected] or get in touch on X via @economics. And if you aren’t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here.

The busiest port in the US is heading until 2025 handling a flurry of imports as companies try to beat President-elect Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods and a strike that threatens to shut trade gateways on the eastern half of the country.

Las empresas de todo el mundo se apresuran a adelantarse a la amenaza del presidente electo Donald Trump de imponer aranceles a los principales socios comerciales de Estados Unidos en 2025.

Tariff uncertainty is creeping into an otherwise optimistic outlook for Texas manufacturers in 2025, according to the latest survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

The world’s No. 2 container carrier urged customers to remove cargo from East and Gulf Coast ports in the US before a Jan. 15 deadline for dockworkers and their employers to avoid a possible strike just days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Ever since metal boxes big enough to hold 50 refrigerators revolutionized shipping nearly 70 years ago, dockworkers have fought to defend the importance of skilled labor in global commerce.

US port operators along the East and Gulf coasts and the longshoremen they employ to keep cargo flowing look set to return to the negotiating table after a seven-week-long stalemate.

President Joe Biden’s decision to block Japanese-owned Nippon Steel’s $14.1 billion bid to acquire US Steel underscores the shift away from globalization and embrace of a broader definition of national security.

Spot container rates for shipping goods to the US from Asia have spiked over the past month as companies look to avoid higher tariffs and pad their inventories ahead of a strike threatening to close ports responsible for roughly half of the nation’s seaborne trade volumes.

Spot container rates for shipping goods to the U.S. from Asia have spiked over the past month as companies look to avoid higher tariffs and pad their inventories ahead of a threatened port strike.