KommentareBefundePerspektivenErklärstücke
Thema
Sanctions & Export Controls
3 Beiträge
Beiträge
- PerspektiveEconomic Security
Openness and security are being reconciled by narrowing one channel at both ends rather than by closing the economy
Two-way U.S. goods trade with mainland China ran at 58 billion dollars a month in 2022 and 35 billion in 2025, a fall of 39.7 percent, while total imports and exports of goods and services both rose across the same three years. The channel narrowed at both ends, and no series cited here records whether a screen decided any of it.
- KommentarStrategic Technology
An export control can close a sale and it cannot close a dependency
Goods imports from China averaged 45 billion dollars a month in 2022 and 26 billion a month in 2025, and goods exports to mainland China fell to 9 billion a month, the lowest of six readings. Over the same years the balance in goods and services widened from minus 75 billion a month to minus 78, the widest of its own six.
- ErklärstückEconomic Security
What export controls reach and what they leave alone
An export control is a licensing rule keyed to a specific item, destination and end user. By the end you will know what triggers a licence, how the rules reach goods made abroad, and where their reach stops.