The current geopolitical environment hardly appears to favour new trade initiatives between the US and the rest of the world.

Almost every day there’s news of the announcement by the White House of some new tariff, followed by a comparable retaliatory impost. Markets are closing at an alarming rate, many between long-established trading partners, and almost all of them meaningful in terms of sales volumes...

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