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Trump debuts new thinking on transshipment tariffs in posts on Indonesia trade deal
US President Donald Trump has unveiled a new approach for penalizing transshipment. On Tuesday, Trump took to social media to tout a new trade deal with Indonesia. Trump said Indonesian imports to the US will be subject to a new… Read More »

Bessent says “don’t worry” about US-China trade truce deadline
On Tuesday, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told global business not to worry about the impending end of the US-China trade truce on August 12. Some context: During their breakthrough meeting in Geneva in May, US and Chinese negotiators agreed… Read More »

Regulators approve plan to better integrate national grid
On Friday, the macro planner (NDRC) and energy regulator (NEA) approved a plan from China’s leading grid operators – the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) and China Southern Power Grid (CSG) – to regularize inter-jurisdictional power trading between their… Read More »