About

A ledger kept in the open

US–China Trade is an independent editorial and data project. It exists to give market analysts, academic researchers and interested readers a single, well-sourced, navigable ledger of the bilateral commercial relationship — the numbers, the documents, and the sequence of decisions that moved them.

Method

All figures are compiled from public sources — principally the U.S. Census Bureau's country trade series, the Peterson Institute's tariff tracker, USTR and Federal Register actions, and contemporaneous reporting from major wire services and financial newspapers. Every data-bearing page carries an "as of" date; the site-wide snapshot for this build is October 12, 2026.

Editorial rules

Every data point carries a source and a date; unsourced numbers do not ship.
Where averages and statutory rates differ, both are shown — with the difference explained.
Events are dated to when measures took effect, not announced, unless noted.
The project takes no position on the disputes it documents; it takes positions on the arithmetic.
Updates are snapshot-based: each build freezes a dated fact base rather than pretending to be live.

Independence & licensing

This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the United States government, the Chinese government, or any agency thereof. Nothing on this site is legal, customs, or investment advice. Tariff and trade figures are simplified for clarity; verify against primary sources before commercial reliance. Text and compiled tables are available under CC BY 4.0; underlying facts and government data are in the public domain.