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People and Halal Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Muslim (majority) countries in Asia (such as Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia) and several countries in the Middle East are moving to stage 3: the halal supply chain. Due to regulatory restrictions prohibiting pork and alcoholic beverages, Brunei is the only ASEAN country with halal-exclusive retailers only.

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Spotlight on trade agreements: IPEF, TPP, RCEP

Resilinc

trillion in GDP—and Brunei—a tiny nation on the north coast of Borneo, Malaysia, with less than 500,000 people and $12 billion GDP—have in common? A significant trade in oil and gas, which flows from Brunei to India; medical and entrepreneurial talent, which tends to flow in the other direction; and recently, membership in the U.S.

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The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF): What Is It and Why Does It Matter?

Resilinc

As of negotiations on May 27 , the IPEF includes the US and 14 Asia-Pacific nations: Australia, Brunei, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam—that together represent 40% of the world’s GDP.

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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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High Seas Troubles Affect Global Supply Chains, Part One: Security Risks

Enterra Insights

As early as the 1970s, countries began to claim islands and various zones in the South China Sea, such as the Spratly Islands, which possess rich natural resources and fishing areas.”[4]

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What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? Guest Post by Arun Gupta, PhD

Supply Chain View from the Field

In its current form the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a potential free trade agreement (FTA) between the US and 11 Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries (Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Japan, Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, and New Zealand). The United States currently has FTA’s with six (6) of the 11 TPP countries.

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Doing Business in Malaysia

QAD

Located in Southeast Asia, Malaysia is bordered by Thailand, Borneo, Indonesia, Brunei and the South China Sea. Despite the years of political turmoil, the country was able to diversify its economy to include robust manufacturing, services and a thriving tourism industry. Manufacturing in Malaysia.