China

A single piece is filed here, and its subject is narrower than the heading suggests: what a bottle of shampoo bought from a Chinese seller reveals about freight, customs valuation and the cost of returning goods that cross a border. The column used consumer purchases as a way into trade mechanics, which is why a heading as broad as “China” carries one article about toiletries.

Cross-border trade is now handled in the portal’s World section, where remittance corridors, currency pegs, freight rates and national accounts are read the same way — from the invoice and the tariff schedule up. This address is kept because the column published here, and because links made to it years ago still resolve. The text, the date and the author’s name are the ones the snapshot carried.

A heading with one article under it is kept rather than folded into a larger one, because the heading is itself part of the record: it shows how the column sorted its own work, and links made to it years ago still point here. A reader who wants the current treatment of freight, customs valuation and the cost of returning goods across a border will find it in the portal’s own sections. A reader who came for this particular piece will find it at the address it has always had.