One day in global trade: To capture an ordinary day during this extraordinary period in the history of the global economy, Bloomberg deployed reporters across the world to see the inner workings of trade up close trib.al/qyqFT5A
.@SDonnan visited to the busiest lock on the Mississippi River: “Roads and railroads are the veins of America. But the rivers are the arteries, still, of America” trib.al/qyqFT5A 
.@IvanLevingston and @HodaliFadwa were at the Qalandia Crossing in the West Bank, where facial scanners have transformed the daily routine for tens of thousands of people trib.al/qyqFT5A
At the Nigerian-Benin border, @alonsosotoj & @virgah explain how the ban on trade across the 800-kilometer frontier between the two West African nations has brought one of the continent’s busiest border posts close to a standstill trib.al/qyqFT5A
Chinese consumers are increasingly taking their spending power abroad. Australian services exports to China – from wedding planning to university education – have surged 18% a year in the past half-decade. @ThuyOng visited Chinese nuptials in Sydney trib.al/qyqFT5A
Trade wars or not, human diets are changing in places such as China. @tatifre went to a pig farm in Guatambu, Brazil, which just had its “best year ever” trib.al/qyqFT5A
.@endacurran visited the port of Hong Kong – the no man’s land of the U.S.-China trade war trib.al/qyqFT5A
.@Lenka1442 & @JamesGomez55 went to Motor Jikov, one of more than a hundred auto-parts companies scattered across the Czech Republic. Together with factories owned by VW and Hyundai, they form the backbone of the country’s economy and are often a weather vane of global trade
It’s not just the U.S. and China: Trade tensions have also been brewing between Japan and South Korea. @samkimasia & @shiho_takezawa watched shoppers in Seoul and Tokyo to see if consumers are more willing to move on than their governments trib.al/qyqFT5A
The U.S. imposed a 25% tax on bottles of imported French table wine in October. @WHorobin traveled to Château des Sources to see how a winery is scurrying to source vintages with an alcohol content above 14% that dodge the levy because the U.S. classifies them as dessert wines
Finally, @mdmcdonald visited the Panama Canal, where there’s no sign of weakening global trade trib.al/qyqFT5A
Catch up on all things trade in the latest issue of Bloomberg Markets Magazine (via @cr_harper, @StrykerMcGuire & @b_muzz) bloomberg.com/markets-magazi…
