Dhaka, July 11 -- In addition to the several reasons for the global trade slowdown discussed earlier (First-part of the article published in the FE on July 10, 2020), one major structural factor associated with this and the Commonwealth trade slowdown is the consolidation of value chain activities in production and trade (World Bank, 2015). During the 1990s and early 2000s, combined with open trade policies, the global value chain relocated an increasing share of domestic production abroad. However, during the post-financial crisis period, because of the slowing-down of the global value chain, major economies like the USA and China started sourcing intermediate inputs more from their respective domestic markets. Moreover, from 2012, the c...