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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

Logistics Viewpoints

Many multinationals have engineered their global supply chains to minimize taxation by creating subsidiaries in low taxation nations like Switzerland, Ireland, and Singapore. Companies who have experienced these delays often add inventory across their network to buffer the risk. This adversely affects a company’s cash flow.

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Customs Duty De Minimis Thresholds: A Guide for SMEs

Unleashed

In general the customer – or the importer – is liable to pay certain costs including any taxes or duties payable in their jurisdiction, along with freight, insurance and other handling costs. There are also waivers you can apply for in the UK when you bring in goods to certain jurisdictions, such to Northern Ireland.

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How Europe is Coping with Supply Chain Disruption

Jaggaer

Yet with the autobahns, motorways and highways largely free of traffic apart from freight, goods are generally getting through and we are yet to see long-term shortages of food and other essential items. Countries such as the UK and Ireland, which are highly reliant on air freight, are especially exposed to this kind of supply chain risk.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 30 – October 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, in June 2021, Washington Prime Group, a shopping mall real estate company that owns 102 locations around the US filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, leaving space for e-commerce firms to potentially move their inventory and fulfillment operations in.

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Doing Business in Belgium

QAD

In fact, 23 percent of its GDP in 2017 went to investments in fixed capital and inventories. The seven registered air freight carriers in Belgium carried 1.4 Coupled with its prime location and healthy multimodal freight system, Belgium has the ability to move goods quickly around Europe and the rest of the world.

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YARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Questionnaire

The Lean Supply Chain

Actual Systems has successfully expanded beyond North America and penetrated Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Ireland and Spain.  Who are the top vendors ( called “Best of breed” ) on the market? Improved deployment of inventory. YMS vendors : High Jump. Red Prairie. C3 Solutions. Pinc Solutions. WHAT YOU GET.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 6 – 12)

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The company dealt with multiple shutdowns and delays at its factories, limiting its inventory and availability to ship bikes to customers. The company will spend $100 million to speed up shipping times on airfreight, expedited ocean freight, moving containers to less-congested ports, and getting products into US warehouses.