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Imported Venezuelan oils importance to US diesel refining 2000
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Venezuela’s heavy oil and its history with US refineries

US President Donald Trump’s seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has driven renewed attention to the two nations’ historically intertwined energy industries.
Trade dependence between China and the US by industry
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Best of 2025: US-China trade themes dominated our most-read data stories

To wrap up 2025, we have compiled CEIC users' most-read and most-downloaded data stories and visualizations of the past 12 months.

The news flow was dominated by Donald Trump's tariffs; our users were particularly interested in their implications for China's trading relationships.
Mobility inside China demographic change in 2024 shows the job-pulling strength of the southeast coast
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Chinese demographics: southeast coast population is growing

China's population has been shrinking, but the demographic change is not uniform. Like Japan, workers are moving to employment hotspots.
Selected nations imports from China vs their inflation rate 2024 vs 2025
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China exports lower inflation to ASEAN and beyond

As a year of global trade realignment winds down, we're examining one of the side effects of Chinese overcapacity. The nation is effect exporting disinflation to other markets – especially the #ASEAN economies, with their "connector" role in global trade.