AJOT Newsroom
| October 14, 2025
| International Trade
• Released in partnership with NYU Stern, the DHL Global Connectedness Tracker offers a first systematic look at shifts in global business amid trade policy turbulence
• In the first half of 2025, global trade grew faster than in any half-year since 2010, excluding the pandemic rebound
• Tariff increases hit North America’s trade growth outlook hardest; South & Central America and Middle East & North Africa are the only regions with forecast upgrades
• U.S.–China business ties diminish, but no major split of the world economy between geopolitical blocs
