The continued, and escalating, trade war between the United States and China is doing far more than just rattling American businesses. New policy measures paired with historic high tariffs have compounded these supply chain challenges unlike what we’ve experienced since before the pandemic.

Donald Trump believes it is up to China, not the United States, to come to the negotiating table on trade, the White House said Tuesday, after the US president accused Beijing of reneging on a major Boeing deal.

The year-on-year expansion matched China’s growth rate in the fourth quarter and exceeded Beijing’s full-year target for 2025, as well as the 5.1 per cent forecast by analysts in a Reuters poll. The strong first-quarter growth came despite Trump’s first salvo of 20 per cent tariffs,