[The second of a  three-part article titled Global Trade Turmoil]    Although both the world gross domestic product (GDP) and exports suffered from the 2008 global financial crisis, followed by some recovery during 2009-2012, the export-GDP ratio seems to have stalled and has actua

[The first of a  three-part article titled Global Trade Turmoil] Very recently, the world economy has witnessed escalated trade tensions between the world's two largest trading nations, China and the USA, amid an already prolonged and severe crisis in trade multilateralism, and the protecti