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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. But they are starting to feel the effects of various regulatory regimes from not only the United States but other international jurisdictions.”

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An Observation on Corporate and Societal Resiliency and the Strength of the Human Spirit

Enterra Insights

This trip added a very human dimension because of the suffering of millions of displaced Ukrainians, the insecurity of people living next to Ukraine, and the incredible outpouring of kindness and support from Ukraine’s neighbors – in particular, Poland, the United States, Canada, and others.

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Do We Really Need a New Smart Phone Every Two Years?

SCM Research

With 32% of the world’s total, the United States (7.1 kg), Switzerland, Iceland, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. This e-waste comprises 12.8 Mt of small equipment (e.g., toasters, video cameras), 11.8 Mt of large equipment (e.g., washing machines, photovoltaic panels), 7.0 Mt of cooling and freezing equipment, 6.3

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

Those goods flowed through three regional hubs – in Singapore, Panama City, Panama and Stabio, Switzerland – to 49 distribution centers, 24 of which VF operates. China, for example, only produces 14% of their total units, only 3% of those units end up being exported to the United States and 2% to EMEA.

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Globalization’s Ongoing Realignment

Enterra Insights

However, in light of the pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and years of rising tensions between the United States and China, some have speculated that the world is already deglobalizing.”[3] At the latest World Economic Forum event held in Davos, Switzerland,] Russian oligarchs [were] absent.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Robinson Enters Switzerland Marketplace. In 3PL news, XPO Logistics announced that it has acquired Optima Service Solutions, LLC, “a leading non-asset provider of last-mile logistics services for major retailers and manufacturers in the United States” for $26.6 HighJump Software Announces Middle East Partnership.

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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

QAD

United States. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) states all goods fully or partially manufactured in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are products of forced labor and are not eligible for U.S.