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Don’t Fret: Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement will not play havoc with the economic development of developing countries

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

TPP is a unprecedented trade deal in history because it involves 12 countries (United States, Japan, Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Canada, Mexico, and Brunei Darussalam), which accounts for 40% of global trade. (The The global trade amounts to US$ 38 trillion in 2014, where China took the lead with US$ 4.2

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Companies Get Serious About Climate Change

Enterra Insights

Currently, there are a couple of such canaries on the world stage — Venice and Australia. Venice is flooding and Australia is burning. Everyone is familiar with the canary in the coal mine analogy. Both situations are attributed to and exacerbated by climate change. However, the increased flood risk touches every continent.”

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

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It was far more fascinating than military logistics, so within a few years I decided to leave and headed out to Australia and worked for a consulting company for two or three years. Sourcing is now predominantly overseas: China is one of the big sourcing countries of course, along with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Vietnam and Thailand.

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Reducing Collateral Damages by Imposing Collective Penalties

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

Bangladesh is an attractive place for western companies (e.g.,   When more firms source from Bangladesh, more contract manufacturers enter the market to meet demand.    This trend has created the garment industry in Bangladesh that accounts for over 80% of the country's exports. 

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Food Resilience and Climate Change

Enterra Insights

”[2] The lead researcher of the study, Professor Colin Binns from the Curtin School of Population Health in Australia, states, “Climate change has had a detrimental impact on health and food production for the past 50 years, and far more needs to be done to overcome its adverse effects.” ”[9]. Concluding Thoughts.

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Global Wide Production PMI Levels Unchanged in February 2024

Supply Chain Matters

For the first time in many months, report authors identified export order demands originating countries as being Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Indonesia and the United States. New export orders were noted as rising at the fastest rate in nearly two years.

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8-Step Importing Guide For First Timers

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For example, China for just about everything that can be made, Vietnam for clothing and shoes, and Bangladesh for garments. Australia , for example, prohibits the import of dangerous dog breeds. This should serve as a general framework to source products from different countries according to their strengths. And the list goes on.