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How quickly will world trade recover?

Today’s CPB survey suggests that world trade continued to decline in May, albeit at a much slower rate. We expect a rebound in the coming months. However, the pick-up from then on is likely to be modest, mirroring our expectations of a slow global recovery. Accordingly, we don’t see world trade volumes returning to pre-crisis levels until late-2011.

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