Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2024

What may explain this increased concern is a prior Supply Chain Matters posting in late February highlighting reports indicating that China based automotive and other industry suppliers are being encouraged by dominant industry players to establish a presence in Mexico as a mechanism for both nearshoring and circumventing existing import tariffs.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 25, 2022

Prior long-standing assumptions that mature, foreign based supply networks, low-cost labor and predictable global transportation and logistics costs would remain constant were also blown-up by a series of industry dynamics. Geo-Political and Hybrid Government Policy Dimensions.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 9, 2023

Further, some industries are defining more direct control under the notions of supply chain vertical integration, or complete transformations of strategic supply networks in the case of global automotive industry manufacturers. We pointed out that in 2022, more U.S. For those businesses located in the U.S.,

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