
Commodity trade faces geopolitical turbulence, Willis reports
created: Oct. 16, 2025, 8 a.m. | updated: Oct. 17, 2025, 8:16 a.m.
To explore this, Willis and Oxford Analytica consulted an international panel of senior external-affairs and risk leaders, producing a global risk radar and risk-by-risk synthesis of how leading global commodity traders view these challenges.
The top risks that emerged from the report were:Tariffs : Tariffs emerge as the biggest economic threat to commodity traders, reshaping trade flows, freezing decision-making and injecting unprecedented policy uncertainty.
: Tariffs emerge as the biggest economic threat to commodity traders, reshaping trade flows, freezing decision-making and injecting unprecedented policy uncertainty.
Complications of a changing climate : Climate change is reshaping commodity markets, altering seasonal fuel demand, increasing pesticide use and straining river-based logistics.
: Climate change is reshaping commodity markets, altering seasonal fuel demand, increasing pesticide use and straining river-based logistics.
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