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Developing Countries' Debt Payments Hit A 50-Year High

How Countervailing Duty Investigations Actually Work

A joint inquiry by two federal agencies decides whether a foreign subsidy justifies a new U.S. tariff — and the process runs on fixed deadlines, not politics.

How Climate and ESG Disclosure Rules Land in U.S. Markets

The SEC retreated, California marched, Europe reached across the border — and U.S. companies now file climate data under someone's mandate anyway.

What Freight Indexes Signal About the Economy

Trucking is the economy's rawest real-time gauge — no revisions, no surveys, just rates — and the freight recession told the goods slowdown first.

How Supply Chain Disclosure Rules Reach U.S. Importers

From cotton fields to polysilicon, U.S. law now presumes goods from certain regions are tainted — and importers carry the burden of proving otherwise.