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More to the EM export slump than the trade war

The US-China trade war, which has now been running for over a year, has exerted an increasingly large drag on EM exports. But other factors including weak global demand have been bigger drivers of the slump in EM exports. With the global economy set to slow further, EM export growth will stay very weak.

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