China is the world’s largest beer market, and consumers are increasingly shifting to premium and foreign brews from mass-market brands amid rising incomes.
Waste vegetable oil is the latest in a list of fuel innovations from a transportation industry that’s under intense pressure to lower its carbon footprint.
Differences on difficult issues such as Chinese industrial policy and intellectual property regimes remain vast — and tough negotiations now lie ahead.
China is discussing a plan to cut tariffs on imported plane parts, a move that may also benefit suppliers such as General Electric and Honeywell International.
An online shopping boom that should be helping Indonesia’s postal service is actually hurting because regulators have set parcel delivery prices so low.
As tariffs were being slapped on hundreds of goods, shipping rates for dry bulk — the segment that hauls billions of tons of coal, iron ore and crops around the globe — kept rising. But no more.