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(Chinhphu.vn) – Thay mặt Bộ Chính trị, Tổng Bí thư Tô Lâm vừa ký Nghị quyết số 68-NQ/TW ngày 4/5/2025 của Bộ Chính trị về phát triển kinh tế tư nhân. Cổng Thông tin điện tử Chính phủ trân trọng giới thiệu toàn văn Nghị quyết này.
Tiếp tục đọc “TOÀN VĂN: Nghị quyết số 68-NQ/TW về phát triển kinh tế tư nhân”
UNCTAD.org 23 April 2025
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) released on 15 April new seaborne trade data. For the first time, the dataset includes country-level statistics.
Maritime transport is the backbone of global trade, moving over 80% of goods traded worldwide by volume. It connects global value chains, carrying raw materials and semi-processed goods to production hubs and delivering finished products to consumers. These flows are vital for industrialization, economic growth and job creation.
Seaborne trade has evolved over the decades, shaped by containerization, the rise of developing economies and shifting production and consumption patterns. Today, digitalization, geopolitics and the push for sustainability and climate resilience are redefining the sector.
Reliable, up-to-date country-level data is key to understanding trade flows and guiding better transport and trade policies and investment decisions.
Built from official trade data reported by governments to UN Comtrade, the new dataset offers a more accurate and comparable view of global maritime cargo movements, helping countries to:
Historically, developing countries served mainly as loading hubs – major exporters of raw materials but marginal importers of manufactured goods. But this has evolved since the 1970s, driven by structural changes such as the oil crises, trade liberalization, increased private sector participation in port operations, the rise of container shipping and reforms to liner shipping alliances.
The shift accelerated in the early 2000s as developing countries increased trade among themselves – including in raw materials, oil and manufactured goods. Their share of global maritime freight rose from 38% in 2000 to 54% in 2023. The surge was led by Asia, with China driving much of the growth.
Read full article here https://unctad.org/news/shipping-data-unctad-releases-new-seaborne-trade-statistics
This article is on the page FiscalData of Treasury.gov, the website of the US Treasury.
It explains every thing you need to know about the National Debt (or National Deficit). Very good economic lesson. Though it talks about the US Federal government, it is very much true to all governments of the world as far as economic principles and fiscal policies are concern.
Peter Draper receives funding from the European External Action Service and Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, for project-specific work connected to trade policies. He is affiliated with the Australian Services Roundtable (Board Member); the International Chamber of Commerce (Research Foundation Director); European Centre for International Political Economy (non-resident Fellow); German Institute for Development and Sustainability (non-resident Research Fellow); and Friends of Multilateralism Group (member).
Vutha Hing receives funding from Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia. He is affiliated with Trade Policy Advisory Board, Royal Government of Cambodia.
Tiếp tục đọc “No, that’s not what a trade deficit means – and that’s not how you calculate other nations’ tariffs”
Published: April 7, 2025 1.46pm BST
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When U.S. President Donald Trump imposed sweeping new tariffs on imported goods on April 2, 2025 – upending global trade and sending markets into a tailspin – he presented the move as a response to a crisis. In an executive order released the same day, the White House said the move was necessary to address “the national emergency posed by the large and persistent trade deficit.”
A trade deficit – when a country imports more than it exports – is often viewed as a problem. And yes, the U.S. trade deficit is both large and persistent. Yet, as an economist who has taught international finance at Boston University, the University of Chicago and Harvard, I maintain that far from a national emergency, this persistent deficit is actually a sign of America’s financial and technological dominance.
Tiếp tục đọc “The trade deficit isn’t an emergency – it’s a sign of America’s strength”
Global Edition | 8 April 202
The reaction of the markets came amid mounting criticism against the tariff hikes, with increasing numbers of economists and analysts offering insights into why Trump’s obsession with trade deficits is wrong.
The purported logic of the tariffs is that they’re designed to reduce the trade deficits America has with its trading partners. But, as Professor of Economics at Boston University Tarek Alexander Hassan explains,Trump’s frenzied attacks on the trade deficit show he’s misreading a sign of American economic strength as a weakness. If he really wants to eliminate the trade deficit, he should turn his attention to reining in the federal budget deficit.
What about the formula the Trump administration used to calculate what tariffs to impose? Peter Draper and Vutha Hing at Adelaide University argue that it’s detached from the rigours of trade economics. The formula assumes every trade deficit is a result of other countries’ unfair trade practices. And that’s simply not the case.
 | Caroline Southey Founding Editor |
Ngày 2/4, Tổng thống Mỹ Donald Trump công bố mức thuế nhập khẩu với hàng chục nền kinh tế, trong đó Việt Nam chịu mức 46%.
Tại sự kiện, Tổng thống Mỹ cũng mang theo tấm bảng ghi mức thuế áp dụng với từng nền kinh tế. Trong đó, Anh, Brazil, Singapore sẽ chịu 10% thuế. Liên minh châu Âu, Malaysia, Nhật Bản, Hàn Quốc, Ấn Độ chịu 20-26%. Trung Quốc và Việt Nam nằm trong nhóm các nước bị áp mức thuế cao nhất, lần lượt là 34% và 46%.
Khoảng nửa giờ sau khi cầm chiếc bảng công bố mức thuế đối ứng với từng đối tác thương mại, Tổng thống Trump ký sắc lệnh áp thuế.
Tiếp tục đọc “Ông Trump ký sắc lệnh áp thuế đối ứng với hàng chục nền kinh tế”briliantmap.com Last Updated: March 24, 2025
The map above shows the huge difference in the size of the UK vs Japan’s highspeed rail networks in 1963 compared to 2025.
The UK’s Stockton and Darlington Railway (25 miles; 40km long) opened in 1825 as the first passenger railway anywhere in the world.
And according to the Institution of Civil Engineers
“Allowing for stops, the first train to run on the S&DR averaged a speed of 8mph (13km/h) on its inaugural journey.”
It also cost £5.1m (in today’s money) and took only 3 years to complete.
Thus 2025, is the 200th anniversary of the existence of passenger rail.
At that time, the Tokugawa shogunate (Edo period) still ruled Japan, which remained more or less closed off to the rest of the world. And wouldn’t start opening up until it was forced to do so by the Americans from 1853.
Japan wouldn’t open it’s first railway line from Tokyo to Yokohama until 1872 almost 50 years after the UK.
Read more at https://brilliantmaps.com
| March 31, 2025 |
| Are you ready to be liberated?Donald Trump’s ingenious plan to escalate his global trade war is set to start tomorrow, which the president vows will lay the groundwork for a golden era for the US economy. What the hell does that mean? In the simplest terms, “Liberation Day” will impose significant tariff increases on all imports, while forcing companies to relocate supply chains to the US. That’s because, in Trump’s mind, foreign countries have “really abused us” for decades. That, of course, is false; even the Wall Street Journal labeled Trump’s punitive tariffs as “the dumbest trade war in history.” Tiếp tục đọc “Mother Jones Daily: Tomorrow, the “liberating” finally begins” |
| March 31, 2025 |
| Are you ready to be liberated?Donald Trump’s ingenious plan to escalate his global trade war is set to start tomorrow, which the president vows will lay the groundwork for a golden era for the US economy. What the hell does that mean? In the simplest terms, “Liberation Day” will impose significant tariff increases on all imports, while forcing companies to relocate supply chains to the US. That’s because, in Trump’s mind, foreign countries have “really abused us” for decades. That, of course, is false; even the Wall Street Journal labeled Trump’s punitive tariffs as “the dumbest trade war in history.” Tiếp tục đọc “Mother Jones Daily: Tomorrow, the “liberating” finally begins” |
AJ+ – 14-3-2025
Tens of thousands of former farmworkers claim they’ve been rendered sterile by a highly toxic pesticide known as DBCP, unable to ever have children.
Though DBCP was banned by the U.S. government in the 70s, U.S. fruit companies continued to use it abroad in poorer countries with fewer regulations.
Decades later, these farmworkers are still fighting for justice, filing lawsuits against some of the world’s biggest corporations. Yara travels to Costa Rica to investigate one of the most devastating occupational health disasters in history.
Fulcrum.sg Published 3 Mar 2025 Mirza Sadaqat Huda
Trump’s rent-seeking foreign policy pertaining to energy and critical minerals will force Southeast Asian countries to do what they least desire: making a choice between China and the US.
The Trump administration’s insular and rent-seeking foreign policy will significantly alter the geopolitics of energy transition in Southeast Asia. This will manifest in two ways. First, the potential cessation of US involvement in the region’s energy sector will heighten fears of China’s dominance in energy infrastructure projects — including the ASEAN Power Grid (APG). Second, Trump’s intentions of using critical minerals as a bargaining chip for providing military assistance, if applied to the ASEAN region, will impact the regional vision for sustainable mineral development.
The shutting down of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), an important player in the energy sector, will intensify existing fears of China’s dominance in electricity transmission and generation. As shown in Table 1, China provided approximately US$534 million in aid to the region’s energy sector in 2022, accounting for more than a quarter of the total share. Comparatively, the US provided only US$23.7 million, or 1 per cent of total energy-related aid to Southeast Asia. In addition, the China Southern Power Grid Company and State Grid Corporation of China own and operate significant portions of the national grids in Laos and the Philippines, respectively.
China Leads in Energy Aid
Table 1 Energy-related aid to Southeast Asia 2022 (excerpt) (USD, in %)
| Donor | Amount | Contribution |
| China | 534 million | 26 |
| ADB | 368 million | 18 |
| Germany | 274 million | 13 |
| Canada | 231 million | 11 |
| South Korea | 211 million | 10 |
| Japan | 167 million | 8 |
| World Bank | 90.0 million | 4 |
| EU Institutions | 42.3 million | 2 |
| France | 42.2 million | 2 |
| AIIB | 34.8 million | 2 |
| United States | 23.7 million | 1 |
The table is modified from Lowy Institute’s (2024) Southeast Asia Aid Map.
Tiếp tục đọc “Impact of Trump 2.0 on Southeast Asia’s Energy Geopolitics”
VNE – Chủ nhật, 2/3/2025, 00:00 (GMT+7)
Năm 2025, tuyến cao tốc Bắc Nam phía Đông dài 2.063 km sẽ hoàn thành; sau năm 2030 tuyến Bắc Nam phía Tây dài 1.205 km được xây dựng, nâng tổng số lên 8.400 km cao tốc trên cả nước.
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