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Supply Chain Matters Most Read Blogs in 2021- Part Two

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog continues with our annual listing of our most read blog commentaries that were published and of keen interest to our readers during the year 2021. The years of 2020 and 2021 presented unprecedented pandemic and other related challenges to industry and global supply chains. Number Fifteen.

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America First: How a New Slew of Trade Policies Will Impact Supply Chain

Elementum

We’re taking a look at what the new tariffs mean for supply chain, and how businesses can protect their interests. China, producer of half the world’s steel supply, was levied with an additional tariff on over $60 billion worth of imports. How will supply chains be impacted? How to avoid a supply chain emergency.

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Global Trade and Decoupling from China

Enterra Insights

Claire Jones ( @senoj_erialc ), a global economy reporter for the Financial Times Alphaville, explains, “The advent of hyper-globalization involved three drivers from the political, technological, and policymaking spheres. In the technology space you had the information and communication technology revolution. ”[2].

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Supply Chain Disruptions Are New Opportunities – LogiSYM October/November 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

As a result, Global Supply Chains have experienced severe “Supply side Shocks” with massive disruptions impinging on all sectors. It even took authorities some time to recognise the vital importance of warehouse logistics, supply chain continuity, truck drivers and other transport operators. Crisis Recovery.

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America First: How a New Slew of Trade Policies Will Impact Supply Chain

Elementum

We’re taking a look at what the new tariffs mean for supply chain, and how businesses can protect their interests. China, producer of half the world’s steel supply, was levied with an additional tariff on over $60 billion worth of imports. How will supply chains be impacted? How to avoid a supply chain emergency.

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US Shoppers and Chinese Suppliers Face Hit from Trump Levy

Material Handling & Logistics

The connections are particularly strong across the apparel and technology industries. worry that their cost advantage could be wiped out in the global supply chain. has yet to announce the list of products the additional duties will be levied on, but has said aerospace, information and communication technology will be targeted.

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Thailand Courts Foreign Investment, While Leadership Questions Remain

Supply Chain Brain

GDP growth lags that of Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Planners have dubbed the project “Thailand 4.0,” involving the extension of broadband access to cover some 75,000 villages, as well as the encouragement of new technologies through generous grants, tax incentives and development aid.