The shipping data points to weakening US import demand and GDP. China appears to be replacing lost exports to the US with those to other Asian countries. Trump’s tariff letters are likely to be taken as more Guff to be followed by TACO. The EU will dodge the bullet. So markets will wait and see. A lot of damage has been done by US tariffs at 16.5% (after substitution).
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