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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

GlobalTranz

With the rise in global crude oil production and relative political stability in the major oil producing nations, particularly Iraq and Libya, the price of crude oil has fallen from above $100 a barrel to around $50 a barrel in just a year. Drop in the price of crude oil.

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How the Bakken Oil Boom Impacts U.S. Supply Chains

CH Robinson Transportfolio

For those of us in neighboring states, North Dakota is the source of a clichéd “giant sucking sound,” the likes of which this generation has never experienced. For those of you on the coasts (all three of them—East, West, and Gulf) you may be vaguely aware of the Bakken oil boom in North Dakota. And it has all happened incredibly quickly.

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Top 10 Most Corrupt Countries of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Source : Human Rights Watch. Source: UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau. Source: Human Rights Watch. Source: GAN Integrity Co. Source: GAN Integrity Co. Equatorial Guinea. Media Type. Privacy Settings. anonymous user. DataTable subpages. Media Image. transactionID. Printer-friendly version.

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Trump Unveils New Tariff Rates, Including 50% Levy on Brazil

Supply Chain Brain

Trump on July 9 also said he would levy a 30% rate on Algeria, Libya, Iraq and Sri Lanka, with 25% duties on products from Brunei and Moldova and a 20% rate on goods from the Philippines. This Trial should not be taking place. It is a Witch Hunt that should end IMMEDIATELY!” Trump wrote in the letter.