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Allied governments, embassies and foreign investors building in the United States.
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- ВыводTrade & Investment
Goods imports from China fell 11 billion dollars a month in 2025, taking the series below its 2020 level
The monthly average rose from 36 billion dollars in 2020 to 45 in 2022, then fell to 26 in 2025, the lowest of the six readings. Exports in the other direction also ended at their lowest reading, so the narrower bilateral difference comes from buying less rather than selling more.
- РазъяснениеDevelopment Finance
What makes a loan concessional
Concessional finance is lending on terms better than the market would offer, measured by a calculation called the grant element. By the end you should know which four terms make a loan concessional, who absorbs the cost, and why the same loan can be scored two different ways.
- РазъяснениеGeoeconomics
What a central bank currency swap line does
A swap line is a reciprocal credit between two central banks with a reversal date built into it. By the end of this you will know how the chain of exposure runs, why the facility is priced to be unattractive, and why the announced size is rarely the number that matters.
- РазъяснениеDevelopment Finance
What a development finance institution does with public money
Development finance institutions lend, insure and buy stakes in private businesses abroad using capital they are expected to get back. By the end you should be able to tell which instrument an announcement is describing, and what the private market would have done without it.
- КомментарийTrade & Investment
A trade agreement is worth the terms it fixes and not the exports it is credited with
Exports of goods and services rose at every step from 2021 to 2025, from 2.57 trillion dollars to 3.32, and any instrument in force across those years can be credited with a line that was rising regardless. The same window also prices what an agreement actually sells: the broad dollar index moved 8.7 percent between the low and high of six annual averages, and nobody negotiated that.
- КомментарийMultilateral Institutions
Sovereign restructuring was built for a world where delay cost the creditor nothing
Reprofiling worked because a payment pushed out ten years cost the creditor nothing in real terms, and in 2020 the implied real ten-year yield was minus 0.60 percent. In 2025 it was plus 1.96 percent, so the same extension now costs a real 17.6 percent, and a process whose only enforcement is peer pressure has to arrange that loss.
- КомментарийCapital Markets
A country should build its export credit agency for speed, because it does not set the terms
The base an export credit is priced against moved 3.40 points on the ten-year Treasury between 2020 and 2025, and the policy rate moved 3.34 points from one year to the next. Those are larger than any margin an agency concedes, which leaves the signing date as the one term it owns, and a fast agency is worth having only if it can also refuse quickly.
- РазъяснениеTrade & Investment
What counts as foreign direct investment
Foreign direct investment is a category of financing, not a category of building. By the end of this you will know what the statistic records, why an announced project is not a flow, and why the money's origin is invisible in the activity it pays for.
- РазъяснениеTrade & Investment
What an export credit agency does for a sale abroad
An export credit agency is a public body that takes on the risk a commercial bank will not, so that a domestic exporter can sell to a foreign buyer on credit. By the end you should be able to follow the transaction and see where the public exposure actually sits.
- РазъяснениеTrade & Investment
What a tariff schedule actually is
A tariff is not a rate applied to an industry. It is a rate attached to a line in a legal taxonomy of goods. By the end of this you will know how a good gets its line, and why a duty on a component often never touches the component.