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TIm Cook Says Apple Plans to Increase Investments in Vietnam
Apple plans to increase investment in Vietnam to strengthen its supply chain and reduce dependence on Chinese manufacturing.
Biden Gives Samsung $6.4 Billion For Texas Semiconductor Plants
In another boon for domestic manufacturing, President Biden awarded Samsung $6.4 billion for new semiconductor chip plants in Texas.
Luxury Car Brands in Limbo After Chinese Company Violates Labor Laws
The U.S. ban on imports from China's Xinjiang region is delaying deliveries of high-end cars like Porsche, Audi, and Bentley to the U.S. market.
Supply Chain Stability Index: “Tremendous Improvement” in 2023
The stability of the supply chain has improved greatly in the past year, despite ongoing challenges and geopolitical tensions.

Global Trade Resources

Supply Chain Outlook: What to Expect Near-Future
An investigation into how supply chains have changed, where they are heading, and how you can prepare.
Embracing the Cross-Border E-Commerce Opportunity
An e2open research report exploring the growth of cross-border e-commerce through consumers’ eyes.


Global Trade News

Embracing the Cross-Border E-Commerce Opportunity
An e2open research report exploring the growth of cross-border e-commerce through consumers’ eyes.

Leveraging Trade Agreements to Reduce Global Sourcing Costs
This white paper presents five best practices for companies to leverage trade programs and gain the benefits.

Six Best Practices for Improving Compliance with a Restricted Party Screening Solution
This white paper explores the following six best practices for using an RPS system to improve compliance and provides insights for selecting a solution.

Six Factors to Consider When Choosing the Appropriate UHF Tag
This whitepaper will explore six questions that will determine what tag-specific requirements in RFID systems that you will need in your application.

How Much Reshoring is Actually Happening?
Reshoring is a complex and expensive proposition, and it has been difficult for reshoring proponents to maintain consistent progress in their efforts to bring manufacturing assets back to American shores.

NRF’s Gold addresses challenges retail shippers are up against
In this podcast, Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman interviews Jonathan Gold, Vice President of Supply Chain and Customs Policy, for the National Retail Federation (NRF).

Assessing the Global Trade Outlook with Dr. Walter Kemmsies
In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Walter Kemmsies, principal of The Kemmsies Group.

Talking Supply Chain Podcast: Reshoring and Near-Shoring Shake Up
On this episode, Rosemary Coates discusses what’s happening with reshoring, near-shoring and off-shoring in today’s global supply chains - SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.

The Impact of US Elections on Trade and Supply Chains
With the election of President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris, supply chains could be looking at a long-term overhaul of policies.

Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World
In this webinar summary, Willy Shih, Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School, shares insights into how global supply chains came to be the way they are and how their vulnerability has been revealed through numerous crises.

The Rebound Podcast: The State of Global Supply Chains
Listen in as USC associate professor Nick Vyas discusses the where global supply chain management is at, and where it needs to go.

Panjiva’s Rogers Assesses the Global Trade Environment
In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Chris Rogers, research director for global trade intelligence firm Panjiva.

Connecting Global Supply with Global Demand
In these 2 product papers, we describe why most companies place a great deal of focus on the last steps of the supply chain, but the first 120 days are even more critical.

Optimizing the First Mile of the International Supply Chain
Many issues during the final stages of the supply chain are in fact the result of issues that arise way further up-stream.

United States Cross Border Ecommerce Parcel Shipping Advisory
Retailers, direct-to-consumer brands, marketplaces and marketplace sellers riding the lockdown boom in Cross Border eCommerce sales are going to get a massive ‘wake-up call’ in the mail from July 1 as Global postal rates into the United States start to soar by as much as 150% or more.

Strategic Partnership Expands Services for Global Terminal Operations and Logistics
The partnership between One Network and PSA Cargo Solutions, a unit of leading global port group PSA International, is designed to expand services for Global Terminal Operations and Logistics and optimize transport, planning, and routing for local and cross-border distribution including optimization of alternative of transportation modes.

World Trade Organization Looks at the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Global Trade
A new information note published by the WTO Secretariat looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected global trade for services, from tourism and transport to retail and health services.

Trade in Services in the Context of COVID-19
This document aims to provide information on the early impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on trade in services in different sectors and modes of supply.

A look at the State of Global Trade
In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Chris Rogers, research director for global trade intelligence firm Panjiva.

Mixed Messages on U.S. Companies Doing Business in China During and After COVID-19
Two recent industry surveys indicate that China’s many diverse markets remain resilient as the recent pandemic recedes, but some prominent industry experts remain skeptical.


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