On June 2, 2026, the Office of the United States Trade Representative made a determination that quietly touches nearly every major global trading relationship at once: all 60 economies investigated for failing to adequately prohibit or enforce bans on forced-labor-produced imports were found to be acting unreasonably and burdening US commerce — with proposed tariffs…
The phone calls from American buyers haven’t stopped. Neither have the shipments. For many Singapore-based companies with exposure to the United States, the Trump administration’s 10% baseline tariff — widely feared when it landed in April 2025 — has turned out to be, as more than one founder has privately put it, something they can…
On a frigid January morning in Cincinnati, Sarah Chen stands in the aisles of her family’s small electronics shop, calculator in hand, recalculating profit margins for the third time this quarter. The wholesale price of the Chinese-made tablets that once flew off her shelves has jumped 34% since spring 2025. “I either absorb the hit…
One year into his second term, President Donald Trump faces a paradox that threatens to upend Republican midterm prospects: his signature economic policy has become his most significant political liability. Despite an unemployment rate hovering near historic lows, Trump’s overall approval rating has plummeted to 39% according to recent polling, with 69% of Americans reporting…
A year after the tariff shockwave, the world’s reserve currency is bleeding credibility—and investors are voting with their feet. The dollar is dying, not with a bang, but with a slow, bureaucratic whimper punctuated by presidential Twitter tirades and bond market mutinies. As of late January 2026, the U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) has collapsed more…
Facing US tariffs, tech disruption & shifting alliances, APAC CEOs’ 2026 mandate is resilient adaptation. Discover the data-driven Triple-A framework for strategic coherence and decisive action.The call from the logistics center arrived at 3 a.m. Singapore time. A container ship, mid-voyage from Ho Chi Minh City to Long Beach, now faced a labyrinth of newly…
The lights flickered in Rashid Ahmed’s textile factory in Karachi’s SITE industrial area on a sweltering October afternoon. Not from another power cut—those he’d grudgingly accepted as the cost of doing business in Pakistan—but from uncertainty. News had just broken that the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) had slashed K-Electric’s tariff by Rs7.6 per…
The alpine air in Davos was brisk on January 23, 2026, but the atmosphere inside the Congress Centre was even icier. President Donald Trump, addressing the World Economic Forum via video link for the second time in his current term, delivered a characteristically bold assessment of the American economy—one that painted a portrait of roaring…
The Arctic chill descending on Nuuk this January is nothing compared to the deep freeze threatening transatlantic relations. As Greenlandic citizens march through their capital’s snowy streets protesting President Trump’s demands to purchase their homeland, a far more potent economic weapon is being primed in Brussels. The European Union stands poised to deploy what French…
On a cold January morning in 2026, a container ship idled outside Rotterdam’s harbour, its cargo of semiconductors and rare earth minerals caught in the crossfire of the latest transatlantic trade dispute. Inside those steel boxes lay the raw materials for everything from smartphones to solar panels—products now subject to a bewildering array of tariffs,…
