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Enter RCEP: The World’s Largest Free Trade Agreement

Logistics Viewpoints

India: Missing in Action: Not surprisingly, with RCEP comprising a diverse group of members, ranging from advanced countries like Australia, Japan and Korea down to the still very much developing nations of Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar, the road to the 20 chapter, 14,000 page agreement was long and sometimes arduous.

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ProMat 2023: What to See and Do in Chicago

Locus Robotics

Lao Sze Chuan — Excellent and pretty authentic Szechuan food, plus the Chinatown location is walking distance from McCormick. Giordano’s – Simply amazing pizza. Pequods Pizza — If you want to truly understand Chicago-style deep dish pizza, this is where you want to go.

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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

For instance, six of the ASEAN countries such as Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, and Thailand can leverage their FTAs with the remaining 4 ASEAN countries (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam) who are TPP members to develop cost effective supply chain operations to facilitate multi-lateral trades with minimal tariffs.

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Trends 2019: Let the Prediction Season Begin

Enterra Insights

If you are looking for wisdom from the past, you might consider the 6th Century BC Chinese poet, Lao Tzu, who wrote, “Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. ” Lao may have been correct, but where’s the fun in that? Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.”

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Doing Business in Thailand

QAD

Its bordering countries include Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia. Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country not colonized by a European power. Thailand borders the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. About twice the size of the U.S. state of Wyoming, the country is 513,120 sq. km in size with a fairly consistent tropical climate.

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White paper: Are the weakest link in your supply chain?

Supply Chain Movement

Lao People's Democratic Republic. Isle of Man. Kazakhstan. Korea, Democratic People's Republic of. Korea, Republic of. Kyrgyzstan. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Liechtenstein. Luxembourg. Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of.

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White paper: What if you are the weakest link in your supply chain?

Supply Chain Movement

Lao People's Democratic Republic. Isle of Man. Kazakhstan. Korea, Democratic People's Republic of. Korea, Republic of. Kyrgyzstan. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Liechtenstein. Luxembourg. Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of.