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Commodities Used in Electric Car Batteries: An Update on Lithium and Nickel

Resilinc

In Europe, the Green Deal Industrial Plan will require all new cars sold in the EU to be zero-emission starting in 2035. Lithium—sometimes called “white gold” due to its color and high value— is an essential and reactive metal widely used in various high-tech industries. Here is an overview of each: What is Lithium? What is Cobalt?

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Doing Business in Brazil

QAD

Brazil is located in Eastern South America and borders the Atlantic Ocean as well as the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Even so, Industry makes up about 21 percent of Brazil’s GDP and employs 32 percent of the workforce. Other Important Industries.

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Logistics Execs Split on Outcome of NAFTA Talks

Material Handling & Logistics

Supply chain industry executives are split sharply about how Mexico will fare if it is able to agree with the United States and Canada on terms to update the North American Free Trade Agreement. . Chile (12); Colombia (26); Argentina (28); Ecuador (34); Bolivia (37); Paraguay (40) were little changed. GDP growth.

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COVID-19 in 2021: Supply Chain Organizations’ Biggest Concerns

DynaSys

And, there is a variable impacting emerging markets, which are major suppliers of so many commodities and inputs for global industry: Can limited medical infrastructures handle devastating disease upticks? Know the industries and markets that your suppliers and your B2B customers most rely on. Understand their sources of income.

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Embracing the South American Ecommerce Marketplace

CH Robinson Transportfolio

exports of consumer and industrial products to enter Chile duty free. consumer and industrial imports into Colombia. Only two countries in South America are landlocked, Paraguay and Bolivia. The United States-Chile trade agreement allows all U.S.

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Supply Chains Carry The Day at COP21

EcoVadis

When looking “ across all industries, companies’ direct emissions average only 14% of their supply chain emissions prior to use and disposal; accounting for the emissions in use and disposal of goods would make that percentage even lower” (Plambeck, Stanford Graduate School of Business). They set a goal to be carbon neutral by 2018.

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List of Top 65 Marketplaces Across the Globe in 2019

Vinculum

Mercado Libre is the largest marketplace in Latin America that operates in 18 countries – Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominicana, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela. Mercado Libre. The marketplace has over 160 million monthly visitors.