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Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Wholesalers in 2019: Drop Those Bad Habits from 2018

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South-East Asian nations such as Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines are ready with substitutes or alternative suppliers. Historically low shipping rates are slowing creeping back up. Keep an eye on this metric to avoid a deadstock situation. Go Forth with International Trade. A second ratio is the order fill rate.

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This index is a compilation of seven ASEAN nations- Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar , the Philippines , Singapore , Thailand , and Vietnam. This metric bears continual observation in the coming months. The other is the related increased terrorist attacks on global wide shipping occurring in the Red Sea region that is ongoing.