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publications The WTOs Global Trade Outlook and Stats provides the WTO Secretariat's forecasts for world trade in 2026 and 2027. Breakdowns of product and commercial services trade by sector and area are supplied, together with information on leading traders.

economic research The WTOs Global Trade Outlook and Statistics analyses recent global trade advancements and provides the organization's forecasts for product trade volume. Breakdowns of merchandise and business services trade by sector and area are provided, together with information on leading traders. The report is issued twice a year. The primary forecast is released in April while the upgrade is released in October.

We at Trade Data Screen are paying attention to what's taking place via the prism of official trade data. It's a drastically different world than when I started covering trade for the Wall Street Journal 20 years ago.

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Shut out of the U.S., numerous Chinese exporters are finding brand-new markets in Europe. Beijing is not quiting its export-dependent development design, which in 2025 moved the world's first-ever trillion-dollar trade surplus. Via our system for reverse engineering trade data, we can determine that Russia's import demand is diminishing.

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Many of the world has not offered up on trade. In October, international container volumes increased 2.1%. Nevertheless, the U.S. is an outlier. According to Bloomberg, the U.S. saw an 8% contraction in incoming shipments. Although President Trump threatened much higher levies, the U.S. reliable tariff rate is "only" around 15%.

Here are our leading trade patterns to see in 2026. The chip market is expected to reach around $750 billion in 2026 and hit $2 trillion by the early 2030s. In its latest version that pattern is being led by Asia. 8 of the world's top 10 exporters of chips, classified under HS8541 and HS8542 are Asian.

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and Germany split the leading 10. Thanks in part to the chip market, and parallel industries in batteries, engines and electronics, the electrical automobile industry is thriving. Slowly, the world's road and filling stations are being rewired. In nation after nation, electric automobile imports have actually been increasing. One repercussion is flourishing trade in the crucial minerals, like cobalt, manganese and nickel, needed to develop electrical cars and batteries.

The future of the U.S.-China trade relationship appears uncertain at finest. When we added up total trade in between the two behemoths, the only sector has grew in 2025 was airplane.

delivered $12.5 billion of airplane and airplane parts to China in the first nine months of 2025, up 45% from the same period in 2024. At TDM, we've been speaking about Vietnam's promise for a years, so we're not shocked to see its strong export numbers. The exceptional feature of Vietnam isn't that it has become an export machine, it's that its manufacturing capacity has increased across so broad a base.

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Those exports to Russia are primarily diminishing, an indication of the damaging Russia has been taking from the war. The IMF and other organizations predict Russian GDP growth of just around 1% in 2026. The most significant beneficiary of the U.S.'s trade war with China has been Mexico. Although the 2 countries, and Canada, are now renegotiating the USMCA, companies have actually had confidence they can make in Mexico and ship north.

Now with the world's greatest population, India has now surpassed Japan as the world's 4th greatest economy, behind the U.S., China and Germany. Trade protection focuses on the huge nations, but we have actually been studying smaller sized players, and one interesting case study is Egypt.

In 2025, Egypt clocked the most significant boost in apparel exports, shipping $2.6 billion in the very first nine months of 2025, 30.7% more than the year before. The second highest boost was signed up by Cambodia at 16.9%, and no other nation enhanced by double digits. America is a substantial continental economy with lots of unique financial regions and sea- and airports.

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Texas and California are still the most significant exporters in general, however New York leads the race in year-on, since of its trade in physical gold. Arizona ranks 2nd since of its electronic devices trade with Mexico. A vindictive tariff and a "Buy Canadian" motion have actually dented U.S.