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Superpowers are weaponizing supply chains. The Global South is building around them. Three deals this week prove it's no longer theoretical: 🌐 Mercosur-EU free trade zone goes live May 1. 700M people. $100B+ in annual bilateral goods trade. Tariffs cut across agriculture, automotive, pharma, and critical raw materials. 🌐 Kenya flagged off its first duty-free exports to China under a new bilateral deal. For agri and manufacturing exporters, the tariff wall just dropped. 🌐 The Abidjan Strategic Forum accelerated the Abidjan-Lagos and Abidjan-Ouagadougou corridors. The EU committed 655B FCFA to Côte d'Ivoire's 2026-2030 development plan. This is the counter-narrative to the logistics weaponization story. The Global South isn't waiting for permission. It's formalizing bilateral agreements and south-south corridors that reduce dependency on any single power, at speed. TBS Take: The next generation of global trade won't flow through the old corridors. It will flow through the deals being signed right now in Brasília, Nairobi, and Abidjan. #GlobalSouth #TradeIntelligence #GlobalSouthWire #Mercosur #Africa #SouthSouthTrade