Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Doug Barry. He is a director at the US-China Business Council. Prior to that, Dr. Doug Barry was a trade director in the US Department of Commerce and has also served as a foreign commercial officer in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Thailand, plus been a journalist for ABC News in New York and London. The focus of this segment is on international trade and production in the world today and a forecast for going forward.