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De Minimis Value: Your Essential Guide to International Trade Regulations

ShipBob

With the combination of benefits to international sellers and consumers, it’s no wonder parcel volume is expected to grow 11% CAGR up to 266 billion parcels by 2026. Moreover, ShipBob offers an end-to-end managed freight and inventory distribution program called FreightBob.

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Retail Apocalypse Predicted to Continue

Enterra Insights

Howland reports, “[UBS] analysts’ best case estimate is for 75,000 stores to collectively shutter by 2026, if e-commerce penetration rises from today’s 16% to 25%.” million retail establishments in the United States.[5] For others, a day of reckoning could still be in the future. Footnotes. [1]

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

Such measures include communicating with suppliers and customers , using demand shaping to overcome inventory shortages, seeking additional suppliers, and building more onshore facilities. The United States’ and Europe’s production of global semiconductors decreased from approximately 80% in 1990 to 20% in 2020. McKinsey ).

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This Week in Logistics News (May 28 – June 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

The United States is also challenging Canada’s failure to fully allocate its annual dairy TRQs; Canada is instead parceling out a few months’ quota at a time. The US also keeps lower inventories of diesel and has been exporting more of the fuel to Europe in recent months to help reduce the continent’s reliance on Russian fuel.

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Top 13 Asian eCommerce Marketplaces

Vinculum

Apart from the fact that the revenue generated is in the region of $1 trillion, by 2020, China’s e-commerce marketplace will be churning out as much as the United States of America, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, and France put together. billion in 2017 to $200 billion by 2026. billion in annual sales.

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

Indeed, companies in the United States, Italy, Canada, Brazil, Australia, and China are already experiencing difficulties arising from t ier 2 supply interruptions. That shift has seen enterprises distance themselves from just-in-time and lean practices and hedge against supply shocks by judicious inventory stockpiling.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

In collaboration with San Francisco-based Unspun, a technology fashion company, Walmart is deploying a goal of 500 machines across the United States and aims to produce upwards of 10 million Walmart fashion garments entirely with Unspun’s proprietary 3-D sewing machine, Vega.