EU Trade Commissioner praises research of Groningen economists
One of the first analyses of the Groningen research for example, shows that a result of the new calculation method the EU's trade deficit with China declines by 36 percent. The traditional trade statistics provide only a limited view of the complex trade networks that were created by globalization.
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