Chart of the week: trade war light on casualties so far

Global trade volume slipped 1.1% in September, but that followed a record peak the previous month. Meanwhile, Chinese goods exports to all countries grew 15.6% year-on-year in October

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"The gloomsters have been saying for some time that global trade was already suffering from the imminent escalation of the US-China trade war," says Jonathan Allum on The Blah! But the data suggest otherwise.

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