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New Trade Map Takes Shape in Davos as World Adjusts to Trump Tariffs

Reporting by Dave Graham and Mark John Reuters January 22, 2026

DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 22 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s use of tariffs as a foreign policy tool added fresh impetus in Davos this week to efforts to boost global trade beyond the U.S., with frustration palpable among many of Washington’s top trading partners.

Tariffs roared back into focus when Trump last weekend threatened new tariffs on European allies opposing his designs on Greenland, before stepping back from them on Wednesday after announcing a deal framework with NATO over the Arctic island.

“It’s the speed, scale, and scope of change that is really rattling the world,” Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said during a panel discussion on tariffs at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in the Swiss mountain resort.

The WEF is meeting in Davos for the first time since Trump last year hiked U.S. tariffs to their highest level in nearly a century, sending countries scrambling to pick up the slack by trading more with each other.

Trump, who says his policies are bringing back jobs to the United States, spurring trillions of dollars in investment and firing up growth, is ever present in WEF debates over how to temper exposure to the U.S., which studies forecast will play a lesser role in overall global trade than it did in the past.

Canada’s Champagne said countries were diversifying their commercial relations and doing more at a regional level to make their economies more resilient to trade policy shocks.

“When you talk to CEOs today, what do they want? Stability, predictability, and the rule of law. I would say it’s in short supply,” he said, days after Canada and China struck a deal to slash tariffs on electric vehicles and canola.

Hot on its heels came the signing of a free trade agreement this month between the European Union and South American bloc Mercosur after 25 years of negotiations – the EU’s largest ever trade pact, if it overcomes remaining legal obstacles.

Diversification of supply chains and reducing over-dependence are backed by the World Trade Organization, whose director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said such moves helped spread job creation and growth to other countries.

“This helps build global resilience and we are very supportive of it,” she told Reuters in Davos.

‘THE WORLD HAS BECOME MORE EXPENSIVE’

Boston Consulting Group forecasts the U.S. share of global goods trade could decline from 12% to 9% in the decade through 2034, giving way to more domestic U.S. economic activity.

“Trump is sawing on the branch he’s sitting on,” Dirk Jandura, head of Germany’s BGA exporters’ association, said this week after data showed German exports to the U.S. falling by 9% during the first 11 months of 2025.

Volker Treier, foreign trade chief of the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce, said surveys showed tariffs on raw materials like steel and aluminum were making it dearer for companies to build up U.S. industrial capacity.

U.S. manufacturing activity contracted for a tenth month running in December, according to a closely watched survey.

“The world has become more expensive, and structurally it will get even more expensive,” Treier said.

‘WE HAVE TO RECONFIGURE OURSELVES VERY FAST’

BCG posits a patchwork of four main nodes dominating world trade: the U.S., China, BRICS+ minus China, and so-called plurilateralists comprising most of Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia and several Asia-Pacific economies.

In the BCG study, trade among plurilateralists and China’s commerce with allies in the Global South would be key drivers of global trade, with U.S. trade advancing more slowly.

Noel Hacegaba, CEO of the Port of Long Beach, said trade flows have been evolving significantly since Trump’s first term.

In 2019, 70% of the port’s cargo was trade with China; by last year, that figure had fallen to 60%, with more coming instead from farther afield in Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia, Hacegaba told Reuters.

Boudewijn Siemons, CEO of the Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s biggest, said trade flows were adjusting rapidly to the new reality, and that the continent needed to be nimble.

“We’ve been relying on cheap production in China, cheap energy from Russia, and cheap defense from the United States,” he said, adding: “And all three of these securities are falling away, so we have to reconfigure ourselves very fast.”

https://gcaptain.com/new-trade-map-takes-shape-in-davos-as-world-adjusts-to-trump-tariffs/

"U.S. manufacturing activity contracted for a tenth month running in December, according to a closely watched survey." Yeah? Who did the survey and who participated?

Canada #87

‘Rules-based order’ wasn’t real – Canadian PM

21 Jan 2026

Countries that long participated in the system knew it was “partially false,” Mark Carney told the Davos forum

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has admitted that the “rules-based international order” was always a partially false narrative that countries knowingly upheld for decades because it benefited them.

During a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday, Carney said nations such as Canada prospered under and promoted a system they understood was not fully true.

“We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically,” Carney said.

“And we knew that international law applied with varying rigor depending on the identity of the accused or the victim,” he added, comparing decades of compliance to a shopkeeper displaying a political sign he does not believe in, calling it “living within a lie” to “avoid trouble.”

Carney argued this “bargain no longer works,” stating that “we are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.” He described a new reality of “intensifying great power rivalry” where economic integration, tariffs, and financial infrastructure are used as “weapons” and “coercion.”

His comments echo remarks by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday, who said global rules have been “thrown out the window” and replaced by a game of “might makes right.”

Moscow has long criticized the Western-led order, arguing it was used to impose rules on others that major powers themselves ignored.

The statements come amid heightened tensions following a series of brazen actions by the US. Since President Donald Trump returned to office, the US has launched strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, attacked Caracas and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, and is now pursuing the acquisition of Greenland from NATO ally Denmark while threatening tariffs against European opponents of the move.

European officials have raised concerns about over-reliance on the US. Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever urged European allies in Davos on Tuesday to choose between dignity and being a “miserable slave” in the face of Washington’s demands.

https://www.rt.com/news/631276-canada-rules-based-order/

>>24158997

I wouldn't call it notable

Just the religious "arguments" starting early

Must be posts in this or last bread that need buried fast

>>24159055

You again?

>>24159073

France Seizes Russian Shadow Fleet Tanker ‘Grinch’ in Mediterranean in Sanctions Escalation

Mike Schuler January 22, 2026

French naval forces intercepted and diverted a Russian oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea this week, marking the latest escalation in Western efforts to disrupt Moscow’s shadow fleet operations through direct maritime enforcement.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced the boarding operation via social media, declaring that “we will not tolerate any violation.” The vessel, suspected of flying a false flag and subject to international sanctions, was boarded on the high seas with support from allied nations, Macron confirmed.

“A judicial investigation has been opened. The vessel has been diverted,” Macron stated, adding that France remains “determined to uphold international law and to ensure the effective enforcement of sanctions.”

In a statement, the French Navy identified the tanker as the MT GRINCH (IMO 9288851), sailing from Murmansk, Russia.

“Conducted on the basis of Article 110 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, this operation aimed to verify the nationality of a vessel suspected of flying a false flag. After the boarding of the inspection team, the examination of documents confirmed the doubts regarding the validity of the flag flown,” the Navy said.

The tanker was reportedly intercepted off Spanish waters in the Mediterranean while sailing towards the Strait of Gibraltar. The operation was conducted with help from the UK and is now under French naval escort.

The French president directly linked the operation to the war in Ukraine, stating that “the activities of the ‘shadow fleet’ contribute to financing the war of aggression against Ukraine.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the seizure is “exactly the kind of resolve needed to ensure that Russian oil no longer finances Russia’s war.”

“Russian tankers operating near European shores must be stopped. Sanctions against the entire infrastructure of the shadow fleet must be tough. Vessels must be apprehended. And wouldn’t it be fair to confiscate and sell the oil carried by these tankers?,” Zelenskyy added.

The Mediterranean seizure represents a strategic shift in European sanctions policy. Since 2022, Western governments have primarily relied on designations and financial restrictions to combat Russia’s shadow tanker operations. Now the UK and several EU states are testing operational tools including expanded insurance checks at maritime chokepoints, refusing innocent passage for suspect vessels, and targeting the broader ecosystem of ship owners, managers, brokers, and insurers.

Germany set a precedent last week when it denied Baltic Sea entry to the tanker Tavian, citing forged identifiers and deficient documentation characteristic of sanctions evasion. Following an inspection by federal police, the vessel turned north toward the Norwegian Sea.

The enforcement actions come as the EU has dramatically expanded its sanctions list. December’s sanctions round added 41 vessels, bringing the total number of ships barred from EU ports and services to nearly 600.

The timing of France’s operation is significant. Just two days earlier, on January 20, 2025, U.S. military forces seized the sanctioned tanker Sagitta in the Caribbean as part of Operation Southern Spear—the seventh tanker apprehended in recent weeks. The vessel had been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury on January 10, 2025, for moving Russian crude above the G7 $60 price cap before shifting to Venezuelan fuel oil exports.

The Sagitta seizure followed President Trump’s December 16, 2025 announcement of a “complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela,” with recent seizures including the Veronica on January 15 and the Olina on January 9.

Russia has condemned the Western operations as “illegal use of force” and warned of potential retaliation.

The coordinated transatlantic enforcement suggests that Western allies are increasingly willing to enforce sanctions at sea rather than rely solely on paper measures—fundamentally changing the risk calculus for operators of the shadow fleet.

https://gcaptain.com/france-seizes-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker-in-mediterranean-in-sanctions-escalation/

>>24159125

>Real Raw News has learned

>>24159143

How so?

Can you walk me through how you came to that opinion?

>>24159167

Gotta be some sort of copyright infringement there

>>24159190

That's one of Mitch's personas

He's still around now and then

>>24159310

Since you posted the stuff yet again I decided to look into it

LAW ENFORCEMENT “REQUESTED” SHOOTING TARGETS OF PREGNANT WOMEN

From February 20, 2013

Police Cadets Quit, Expose Dept. for Training Cops to View Public as 'Cockroaches' They're at War With

From May 1, 2018

Anything from timesofisrael is garbage

So othr than wasting bread, what was your intention of posting that stuff???

>>24159362

Canada #87

How Canada's Only Leverage Over America Disappeared In An Instant

Authored by E.J. Antoni via The Epoch Times Wednesday, Jan 21, 2026

I’d like to talk today about the recent events in Venezuela, specifically from an economic point of view, and who are the real winners and losers.

Let’s start with the obvious. The Venezuela operation is a win for America and the Venezuelan people. American consumers and businesses will benefit from lower prices while oil companies have a chance for bigger profits.

Venezuelans will benefit from increased investment, jobs, and profits in their country as well. This is why their stock market jumped 50, 60, 70, 80 percent after the U.S. takeover.

And if we recall that economic security is national security, then the new order in South America also simultaneously supports U.S. national security while undermining our greatest rival, China. In war, dependable access to oil is as important as dependable access to kinetic arms.

Access to ample, reliable flows of oil represents a key strategic interest. Removing one such flow from the Chinese sphere of influence and bringing it into our own is tremendous progress toward this goal. But the biggest loser of all isn’t China or Russia, it’s Canada.

Western Canada sends over four million barrels a day of heavy crude to American refiners that are equipped to handle this type of oil. But now, with access to the massive flows of Venezuelan crude, which is similar to the Canadian flavor, the United States no longer needs to rely on Canada to keep the refineries on the Gulf of America running at full capacity.

Instead, the oil shipments that previously went to China are already being redirected to American refiners—tens of millions of barrels worth just days after Maduro’s capture. And while the United States is paying full market price for that oil, don’t be surprised if oil prices start coming down because of this redirection.

After all, increasing supply puts downward pressure on prices. As American investment rebuilds Venezuela’s severely neglected oil infrastructure, we can expect production and exports to the United States to only increase, simultaneously benefiting the American and Venezuelan people.

That’s why this is such a massive economic win for American families and businesses who will benefit from lower prices, courtesy of more energy supplies. And since energy affects the price of everything else in an economy, lower prices for products like gasoline will put downward pressure on countless other prices, providing relief after four years of inflation under the Biden administration.

Consider when you go to a grocery store how much of the price of food you’re buying is dependent on energy prices. First off, farmers and ranchers are fueling their tractors and other vehicles with diesel and gas. They’re also using synthetic fertilizers created with natural gas.

But how did the gallon of milk, the carton of eggs, or the bag of bread get to grocery store in the first place? It got there on a trunk. Fueled by oil. What I’m getting at here is that we seriously underestimate just how much the price of energy affects everything we do and everything we buy.

Bring down energy prices, and you put downward pressure on prices throughout the economy. That’s a win for American consumers and businesses alike.

And U.S. control of Venezuela is also a second chance for jilted American oil companies to again profit from nearly one-fifth of the world’s proven oil reserves.

Years ago, those American companies poured investment into Venezuela to essentially modernize the entire industry there. For their troubles, these oil firms had their physical property confiscated and their intellectual property copied as the communists “nationalized” Venezuelan oil.

Of course, communist rule there was a disaster, as it has been everywhere, and the oil industry languished as infrastructure decayed, investment lagged, and production fell well below its potential. Venezuela pumps much less oil today than they did a quarter century ago. But this is poised to reverse.

Venezuela will now assuredly receive billions of dollars of investment from American oil companies, many of whom are champing at the bit to regain access to the largest reserves in the world. That will mean a windfall of jobs and income for the Venezuelan people, all of which could have been Canada’s, bringing us back to the story of the biggest economic loser here.

It didn’t have to be this way for the fifty-first state. But instead of welcoming oil and gas investment from the United States and building valuable infrastructure like pipelines, Canada has preferred to prioritize far-Left causes and an anti-energy agenda.

After recent events, not only is Canada losing its biggest crude customer, but it’s also losing its only real leverage in trade talks with the United States. This is an economic reality that few professional pundits seem to have grasped.

To be clear, the flood of cheap Venezuelan crude will not arrive in the United States overnight. It will take time, years in fact, to rebuild Venezuela’s oil infrastructure and really ramp up production to replace most Canadian crude imports. But the writing is on the wall.

The United States, for a change, is firmly in the driver’s seat and master of its own destiny—and hemisphere.

The economic story here also goes well beyond oil too, although that’s what has gotten most of the attention. Venezuela is a veritable goldmine of other natural resources like rare earth minerals, lumber, bauxite (the primary source of aluminum), natural gas, and more. Canada just lost not only its leverage with oil, but just about every other one of its exports too.

Since the Canadian economy is much more dependent on exports than the U.S. economy is, and since nearly all Canadian exports come to the United States while relative few of ours go to Canada, the slowdown in trade between our two countries has very unequal effects.

In short, this has been very harmful to Canada and will be devastating in the long run. But it’s little more than a speedbump here in America.

President Donald Trump has effectively barred the door on Canada, and the latter will have few alternatives to completely opening every one of its markets to free and fair competition.

Of course, Canada can always choose to fall further into irrelevance and economic impoverishment by stubbornly continuing to snub American manufacturers, farmers, and workers.

Let me close by saying that if the Monroe Doctrine warned Europeans to stay out of the Western Hemisphere and the Roosevelt corollary established American intervention therein, then the Trump corollary has put a finer, and more economic, point on the matter that’s best summed up in two words: America first.

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/how-canadas-only-leverage-over-america-disappeared-instant

>>24159348

What happened to the take one aspirin a day to promote heart health?

>>24159344

Why would that be notable?

Looks like speculation to me

The bolsheviks ended the Russian royalty

I don't see modern Russia interested in a monarchy

>>24159383

Says you

I desire to "borrow" a high speed, highly capable, interplanetary vessel

>>24159390

With deep gratitude I shall share that with anons on some of the other breads