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Lack of Trust Between the USA and China Could Affect the Future of the Globe

Enterra Insights

China war that would make Ukraine look like a neighborhood dust-up.”[2] As I noted in a previous article, “China’s tacit support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine hasn’t helped dampen those sentiments.”[5] He writes, “We’re now like two giant gorillas looking at each other through a pinhole.

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Revealed: The Sectors Cutting Product Lead Times Fastest

Unleashed

Covid restrictions, Brexit, labour shortages, rapidly-changing customer demand and the war in Ukraine, have all contributed to shortages of key raw materials and components – squeezing margins and causing long lead times and higher prices for customers.

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Mid-Year Assessment of 2022 Supply Chain Predictions- Part One

Supply Chain Matters

percent for this year, two percentage points lower, warning of the effects of high global wide inflation, the war in Ukraine and continued supply chain disruptions will impact real GDP growth. Eurozone business confidence reportedly slid to a 25-month low amid the Ukraine conflict and elevated inflation rates. percent in June.

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Added Headwinds for Global PMI Production Indices in June and Q2 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Weaker demand conditions, the war in Ukraine and persistent supply issues were cited as reasons for lower production. ”. Whereas, among a grouping of developing regions consisting of China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Vietnam and Thailand , production and supply chain activity levels declined 2.4 United Kingdom.

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Supply Chain Disruption. A Deeper Look Into Context, Causes, and Trends  

Elementum

They expanded first into other parts of eastern Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, India), then into eastern Europe (Poland, Ukraine) and Mexico. Supply networks quickly adapted, and became more geographically dispersed and interdependent.

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Global Manufacturing PMI Levels Rise in January 2024

Supply Chain Matters

This index is a compilation of seven ASEAN nations- Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar , the Philippines , Singapore , Thailand , and Vietnam. One relates to the rising geo-political tensions across the Middle East region that could lead to further hostilities involving multiple nations beyond Israel and Hamas or Russia and Ukraine.

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

Supply Chain Movement

Switzerland. Syrian Arab Republic. Taiwan, Province of China. Tajikistan. Tanzania, United Republic of. Timor-leste. Trinidad and Tobago. Turkmenistan. Turks and Caicos Islands. United Arab Emirates. United Kingdom. United States. United States Minor Outlying Islands. Uzbekistan.