The toll of the U.S.-China tariff war continued to grow in May 2019, with the gap between the pre-trade war trend and the trailing twelve-month average of the total valuation of goods and services directly traded between the two nations widening to $8.3 billion for the month.
Since both nations first slapped tariffs on each others' goods back in March 2018, the cumulative loss in the value of goods exported between both nations now totals $42.9 billion.
The year-over-year growth rate of each nation's exports to each other continues to fall in negative territory, which