It reflects a massive #imbalance b/w what the US #imported and what it #exported in that quarter (1Q2025).

#FTI pushes for tougher steel checks
"the #Thai #steel #industry faces signif challenges due to China's #production #surplus. #China produces 1.1bil tonnes of steel p.a., w domestic dd at ~900mil tons. This leads to an excess of 200mil tons being #exported, particularly to #Thailand & oth #ASEAN c'tries. This influx, incl'g #substandard steel, remains a major concern.. ~30,000tons of #substandardsteel products hv been imported, w additional shipments continuing to arrive"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2995081/fti-pushes-for-tougher-steel-checks

On a recent Monday, when a generically named Chinese ship called the Explorer No. 1 docked in the German North Sea port of Bremerhaven, it may have inaugurated a new era in the global economy.

The Explorer No. 1 will soon be carrying 7,000 BYD vehicles on every voyage, and where China’s young and technologically innovative car giant is concerned, that’s just for starters.

The company is expected to be operating eight ships like the Explorer No. 1 within the next two years.

BYD’s export push has forced Europe to quickly work its way through the shock that its car makers have experienced recently as they have watched BYD and a plethora of other Chinese auto manufacturers ramp up design and production of the products of the future.

This has helped the Europeans move past denial and begin grappling with a fundamentally altered landscape.

That does not mean they have found a solution for Chinese competition in this sector.

Simply put, no one has.

In terms of immediate tactics, the answer for now in Europe seems to be the pursuit of radical cost savings in the making of automobiles.

Unlike in the United States, small cars dominate the European market. China’s new offerings are attractive
https://qoshe.com/foreign-policy/howard-w-french/china-s-global-ev-domination-is-just-beginning/170914694

#SUV #pickup #CO2 #China #EV #exported

🆘In Western markets, large #SUV and #pickup truck sales have hit new highs.
❌“[I]f SUVs were a country, they would be the world’s fifth-largest emitter of #CO2,” Patrick Schröder wrote this week.
⚠️“By comparison, electric vehicles (EVs) … still only account for roughly one-tenth of total passenger car sales in the United States.”
➡️Meanwhile, in #China, sales have soared—and the country, which boasts the world’s largest #EV market, #exported its vehicles at unprecedented rates last year.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/01/china-us-europe-evs-electric-vehicles-market-energy-transition/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921

@Dragofix I hear that #quinoa's food miles are pretty up there, and that international demand has negatively impacted #Bolivia's food supply as the #grain fetches higher prices if #exported rather than if bought and eaten locally.

I don't know about #Peru, though.

#Africa watching closely #French bid to ban $1bn exports of #second-hand #clothes
#EU #exported 1.4 million metric tons of used #textiles in 2022, more than twice as much as two decades ago, according to #UN #trade data. If approved, the EU member states would not be allowed to export second-hand clothes to Africa and #Asia.

English https://northafricapost.com/75973-africa-watching-closely-french-bid-to-ban-1bn-exports-of-second-hand-clothes.html

French https://northafricapost-com.translate.goog/75973-africa-watching-closely-french-bid-to-ban-1bn-exports-of-second-hand-clothes.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr

#Afrika #afrique #africa #افريقيا

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-uyghurs-forced-to-process-the-worlds-fish

#StoryOfStuff:There are no #moderate #democrats legislatingon the #violent #extinction of #Uyghurs #culture #language and #people because the #demand is for cheap #exported #carbonemissions, 99% of which ends up in the landfill in six months.

Prisoners may be exported?

Rwanda Refugee Policy Part II from the Conservative Government. What could go wrong?

How will families visit? What are the mental health implications for those already incarcerated and separated by land, and then possibly sea?

https://rozenberg.substack.com/p/prisoners-may-be-exported?publication_id=79530&post_id=137644433&isFreemail=true&r=lvl6h&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#Conservatives #Prisoners #Exported #RwandaPartTwo #HumanRights

The president, long a champion of #gunsafety, needs to move quickly to fix this #policyfailure.

The number of semi-automatic #firearms #exported from the US has more than doubled since 2016... generated #bigprofits for the #gunindustry — while causing #mayhem throughout the region, including at the US-Mexico #border.

#StopBusinessAsUsual #degradedspaces #StateSanctionedViolence #ThrowawayPeople #DegradationMakesRefugees

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-22/michael-r-bloomberg-america-s-export-of-gun-violence-is-a-bipartisan-outrage?cmpid=BBD082223_CUS&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230822&utm_campaign=closeamericas

#FirefishSocialNoobQuestions @admin

1. I've #Exported my #Mastodon #Bookmarks, & tried to #Import them here to #Firefish via the All posts - Import - Mastodon - Import option. Alas it seems not to work for my non-standard usage attempt. Is there ANY way to import my Masto Bookmarks into Firefish pls?

2. The special #Markdown language used in Firefish supports bolding one's font, but afaict cannot also italicise it? Is there a workaround? --> whoops, didn't work for me last night, but seems now to work; cool bananas !

The new realpolitik, i.e. hot war in #resource rich areas: What do you think of the list of countries (In the #NYTimes discussing Willows) engaged in producing new #CarbonBombs? All are #aligned with us, either politically or under #occupation, except a few who are not producing much- #Russia, Iran, Kazakistan and perhaps Algeria. China's carbon bombs are used to send products back to us and Europe that conceal the moral burden of #emissions and #HumanRights from our #exported #manufacturing.