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  "generatedAt": "2026-06-08",
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      "slug": "rise-of-china-world-trade",
      "title": "The Factory Floor Moved",
      "dek": "In three decades of BACI trade data, China went from the world's sixth-largest exporter to the unambiguous center of goods trade, lifting its share of world exports from 4.52% in 1995 to 15.73% in 2024.",
      "status": "needs-review",
      "topic": "china",
      "heroMetric": "China's world export share: 4.52% (1995) -> 15.73% (2024); #1 since 2005",
      "latestDataYear": 2024,
      "classificationScope": "country-only",
      "href": "/stories/rise-of-china-world-trade",
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        "gross-export-share",
        "hs92-compatible-history",
        "baci-country-codes",
        "route-proxy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "ai-compute-supply-chain",
      "title": "The Hardware Behind AI Has Several Centers",
      "dek": "AI compute hardware exports grew from $544 billion in 2000 to $1.55 trillion in 2024 -- but chips and the machines that house them have different maps: integrated circuits lead from 'Other Asia, nes' (24%), China (18%) and Korea (17%), while data-processing machines are China-centred (40%).",
      "status": "needs-review",
      "topic": "ai",
      "heroMetric": "AI compute hardware exports: $544B (2000) -> $1.55T (2024)",
      "latestDataYear": 2024,
      "classificationScope": "hs92-1995-2024",
      "href": "/stories/ai-compute-supply-chain",
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        "editorial-ai-grouping",
        "taiwan-s19-aggregate",
        "nominal-value",
        "route-proxy",
        "hs92-compatible-history",
        "baci-country-codes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "mineral-bottlenecks",
      "title": "The Small Markets That Became Strategic",
      "dek": "Lithium, cobalt, graphite, copper and nickel ores, and rare earths: small trade markets that grew an order of magnitude and stayed concentrated in a few exporters.",
      "status": "needs-review",
      "topic": "minerals",
      "heroMetric": "Lithium exports $0.1B->$6.4B; graphite 50.1% China, cobalt 54.6% DRC (2024)",
      "latestDataYear": 2024,
      "classificationScope": "hs92-1995-2024",
      "href": "/stories/mineral-bottlenecks",
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        "quantity-nullable",
        "route-proxy",
        "commodity-price-cycles",
        "editorial-grouping"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "hormuz-gulf-energy-exposure",
      "title": "Who Depends On Gulf Energy Trade?",
      "dek": "A disruption to Gulf oil and gas would not hit every economy equally. Trade data shows which importers lean hardest on the eight Gulf source countries -- and where that exposure is, and is not, possible to measure.",
      "status": "needs-review",
      "topic": "energy",
      "heroMetric": "Pakistan: 88.6% of 2024 oil/gas imports from Gulf-source countries",
      "latestDataYear": 2024,
      "classificationScope": "external-context-required",
      "href": "/stories/hormuz-gulf-energy-exposure",
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        "route-proxy",
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        "iran-undercount",
        "min-import-threshold",
        "hs92-compatible-history",
        "baci-country-codes"
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    },
    {
      "slug": "new-manufacturing-arc",
      "title": "The New Manufacturing Arc",
      "dek": "China is the largest gainer in world export share since 1995 - but the next tier of gains, from Vietnam to Mexico to Poland, traces a broader reallocation of manufacturing across Asia, North America and Eastern Europe.",
      "status": "needs-review",
      "topic": "country",
      "heroMetric": "Vietnam's export share: 0.11% (1995) -> 1.88% (2023), +1.77pp",
      "latestDataYear": 2024,
      "classificationScope": "country-only",
      "href": "/stories/new-manufacturing-arc",
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        "baci-country-codes",
        "nominal-values-country-size",
        "share-reallocation-not-causal",
        "baci-goods-only",
        "route-proxy"
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    },
    {
      "slug": "energy-trade-after-russia",
      "title": "Europe's Energy Map Was Already Changing",
      "dek": "Before the 2022 shock, Russia supplied close to a fifth of the energy bought by seven major European importers. By 2024 that share had collapsed to under two percent -- and the trade record shows where the replacement supply came from, while being explicit about what annual data and product codes cannot reveal.",
      "status": "needs-review",
      "topic": "energy",
      "heroMetric": "European energy import sources realigned, 2018-2024",
      "latestDataYear": 2024,
      "classificationScope": "external-context-required",
      "href": "/stories/energy-trade-after-russia",
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        "baci-annual-not-monthly",
        "gas-code-not-pipeline",
        "route-proxy",
        "validate-source-continuity",
        "nominal-value-price",
        "hs92-compatible-history",
        "baci-country-codes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "food-security-fertilizer",
      "title": "The Food System's Hidden Import Dependency",
      "dek": "Agricultural exposure is not just about who exports grain. Fertilizer import dependence draws a different, less familiar map of food-system vulnerability -- one where a handful of suppliers sit upstream of almost every harvest.",
      "status": "needs-review",
      "topic": "food",
      "heroMetric": "Fertilizer import dependency across major importers, 2024",
      "latestDataYear": 2024,
      "classificationScope": "external-context-required",
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        "no-hunger-ranking",
        "route-proxy",
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        "min-fert-import-threshold",
        "hs92-compatible-history",
        "baci-country-codes"
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