id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-343021-gqem6bxj Allam, Zaheer Oil, Health Equipment, and Trade: Revisiting Political Economy and International Relations During the COVID-19 Pandemic 2020-07-24 .txt text/plain 6023 260 55 The disruptions came just when the consumer demand for different products in other countries from different parts of the world was on a high and rising as depicted in a "United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)" report showing that exports in 2019 grew by 9.7% in 2018, with China being the world's leading merchandise trader of the year (UNCTAD, 2020). In other countries such as the United States, it was reported that the government was prompted to force, through an executive order, major companies such as General Motors (GM) to produce ventilators to help bridge the gap that the increasing confirmed cases for coronavirus created (Haynes, 2020) . In other places, such as in the oil-producing countries, including the United States, the impacts of COVID-19 on different economic sectors such as transport and manufacturing saw the demand for oil and oil products plummeting in rates not experienced in recent history. ./cache/cord-343021-gqem6bxj.txt ./txt/cord-343021-gqem6bxj.txt