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This Week in Logistics News (November 25 – December 1)

Logistics Viewpoints

The shift illustrates how the rising cost of importing from China and escalating political tensions between Washington and Beijing are encouraging large U.S. companies to import more from countries including India, Thailand and Vietnam. To be sure, China is still Walmart’s biggest country for importing goods.

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Memorial Day 2023

Enterra Insights

The staff at the Washington Examiner reminds us, “Memorial Day stemmed from a desire to honor the dead after the Civil War. Journalist Nikki Wentling describes the event: “ A casket containing the unidentified remains of a World War I soldier was carried in a horse-drawn wagon through Washington, D.C., Capitol Rotunda.

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SCRC Meeting – Patrick Fox from VF Corporation: “Creating a Global Trade Playbook”

NC State SCRC

Do we have a crystal ball, and a system to produce a dashboard of every unit crossing a border where we pay a duty, and how much we are paying different countries like Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam or any of the hundreds of different countries we do business in today with suppliers or distributors? What happens? Every contain is being inspected!

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In Memoriam: Henry Kissinger

Enterra Insights

But he harnessed a keen intellect, a mastery of history and his skill as a writer to rise quickly from Harvard undergraduate to Harvard faculty member before establishing himself in Washington.”[1] Kissinger’s intellectual gifts were never challenged; however, his career was not without controversy. As journalist David E.

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Holiday shopping has started early amid fears over shipping delays

Ware2Go

That was among the issues that hobbled production and shipping of Rainbow High dolls, a toy that MGA Entertainment CEO Isaac Larian recently told The Washington Post might not make it into the US in time for Christmas. That slows the flow of empty containers back to ports in China and Vietnam and makes them even harder to get.

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What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? Guest Post by Arun Gupta, PhD

Supply Chain View from the Field

Arun Gupta recently went to a conference of the TPP in Washington, and was invited to share some insights on his visit and what he learned in a guest blog.

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Memorial Day 2022

Enterra Insights

Roberts was specifically writing about Vietnam War veterans who had been exposed to Agent Orange. She observes, “The Vietnam Memorial lists the names of more than 58,000 Americans who died overseas. She writes, “The number of Vietnam veterans affected by the chemical Agent Orange is astonishing. ”[1].

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