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De Minimis Value: Your Essential Guide to International Trade Regulations

ShipBob

This concept plays a crucial role in global shipping and customs, significantly impacting ecommerce businesses and consumers who purchase products internationally. For businesses involved in cross-border ecommerce, understanding the de minimis threshold is vital for calculating the total cost of shipping goods internationally.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. The point is to stop shipping small online orders in boxes that are ridiculously oversized. has been shipping orders in made-to-fit packaging for roughly a decade, and the automation has cut the average box size in half and reduced shipping and packaging material expenses.

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5 Things to Know About U.S.-Mexico Logistics

Talking Logistics

Assuming current trends hold, and NAFTA remains largely intact, here are five things to consider when managing cross-border logistics between the United States and Mexico: 1. government has similar restrictions for Mexican carriers. In Mexico, the basic Mexican import document is the pedimento de importacion. For example, a U.S.

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The Green Corridor: Food for Thought

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Government regulation and enforcement of the regulations nationally are heavily relied upon and in a globalised economy the differences between each government’s regulation and enforcement standard can be well? Do their methods and documented standards meet your organisation’s values or does more need to be done?

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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

Logistics Viewpoints

At SAP their solution is developed by their governance risk and compliance team. Global trade services is one of 4 pillars of GRC at SAP, the others being enterprise risk and compliance, identity and access governance, and cybersecurity. There can be big fines for noncompliance with trade regulations. For example, the U.S.

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Safer and Faster: Singapore’s Known Consignor Regime

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This could impact shipping costs and cut off time needed to make the flight operations.”. Tony Lugg added “Companies who digitalise and/or automate the shipping processes may qualify for Government grants where improvements in efficiencies/productivity can be demonstrated. Safer and Faster: Singapore’s Known Consignor Regime.

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LTL Industry Trends and Tips for 2022

GlobalTranz

In our recent GlobalTranz 2022 Logistics and Supply Chain Trends and Outlook white paper, our experts review some of the factors that will shape logistics in the coming year and beyond. Government and industry initiatives to attract more people to the trucking profession should help alleviate the situation in the long term.

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