friction

On the one hand, a rise in trade friction can disrupt regional logistics and damp global tech demand.

This could be yet another source of friction in the US-China relationship with trade tensions once again ramping up between the world's two biggest economies over tariffs and export controls.

Yet those small acts build trust, reduce friction and unlock better collaboration.

The expansion of the Keystone XL project has been a source of friction between the U.S. and Canada, when former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden were in power.

Carriers, brokers and shippers are all saying they are seeing slow business as a result of uncertainty about downstream consumption amid trade friction, high interest rates, a government shutdown and a broader recession risk.