Some of the more recent numbers for the bigger bubble countries
- US June deficit narrowed 16% to 60 billion. deficit with China dropped 30% to 9.5 billion, lowest deficit in 21 years, since February 2004. Now US expects 50 billion per month in tariffs revenue.
- China's trade surplus in June rose to 683 billion, exports to the United States sank nearly 22% year-on-year, exports to Africa and Southeast Asia surged at double-digit rates as Chinese businesses diverted sales to other markets. Chinese industrial profits however, plunged 10% in may 2025.
Dynamics is about how things change in response to other things changing (when people say "it's a dynamic situation" they mean it could change significantly in response to various factors; "thermodynamics" is about how things like temperature, pressure, available energy, etc. change in response to each other. And so on).
This is a busy infographic that fails to show any dynamics, and doesn't provide a lot of static information.
Also, the "makes/takes" framing kind of misses the whole point of how "trade" works.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 29.0 ms ] thread- US June deficit narrowed 16% to 60 billion. deficit with China dropped 30% to 9.5 billion, lowest deficit in 21 years, since February 2004. Now US expects 50 billion per month in tariffs revenue.
- China's trade surplus in June rose to 683 billion, exports to the United States sank nearly 22% year-on-year, exports to Africa and Southeast Asia surged at double-digit rates as Chinese businesses diverted sales to other markets. Chinese industrial profits however, plunged 10% in may 2025.
Dynamics is about how things change in response to other things changing (when people say "it's a dynamic situation" they mean it could change significantly in response to various factors; "thermodynamics" is about how things like temperature, pressure, available energy, etc. change in response to each other. And so on).
This is a busy infographic that fails to show any dynamics, and doesn't provide a lot of static information.
Also, the "makes/takes" framing kind of misses the whole point of how "trade" works.