Trade

COVID-19 AND TRADE REGULATIONS

Posted: 05/13/2020 - 00:37
COVID-19 TRADE

The COVID-19 pandemic poses fundamental questions for governments and businesses about the resilience of international trade.

How to ensure supplies of crucial goods (medical supplies, food) that are dependent on global supply chains?

How to survive the immediate crisis and be best placed, with suppliers and customers, to resume production as soon as conditions allow? 

How to protect national industries while retaining the benefits of free and fair international trade?

Onshoring vs. Offshoring: 4 Indications the Tide is Turning in Manufacturing

Posted: 11/06/2019 - 07:18
Uncertainty over the future of the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China continues to take its toll on supply chains worldwide. While some companies and manufacturers are setting their sights on alternative foreign factories, such as Vietnam and Thailand, others are looking to make parts closer to home. 
 

How Supply Chains Should Adapt to the Trade War “Truce”

Posted: 01/16/2019 - 04:04
On December 1, leaders from China and the U.S. broke bread with their enemies and reached consensus to halt the mutual increase of further tariffs until March 1, 2019. As of now, the total U.S. tariffs applied exclusively to China is at $250 billion, and China answered back with $110 billion worth of tariffs on U.S. goods. The “truce” has prevented the January 1 deadline for most tariffs to increase from the current 10 percent to the established 25 percent. 
 

Will the UK save £1.6bn on procurement after Brexit?

Posted: 05/05/2017 - 19:59

In its campaign against the UK's continued membership of the European Union, 'Vote Leave' claimed that EU procurement rules, which govern the purchase of goods and services by public sector bodies, cost UK taxpayers £1.6bn a year. It also claimed that 1.9 million days a year are lost to red tape delays.

Is it likely or possible that the UK can save this money and time cost by changing the public procurement rules after Brexit?

Current system

Immigration worries for outsourcing

Posted: 01/30/2017 - 20:00

Little more than a week into his presidency, and Donald Trump has already taken plenty of steps to ensure that anyone hoping or fearing that his more aggressively populist pre-election promises were merely vote-summoning rallying cries that would be forgotten were he to be elected will have their doubts dispelled.

Brexit: a complex future for UK procurement and the supply chain

Posted: 07/08/2016 - 02:19

The result of the EU referendum will undoubtedly have a profound and long-lasting impact on the entire UK population and is likely to be something that is truly generational. Whether we voted for Remain or for Leave, however, Brits now have to assess where we are and how we maintain our position in the global economy.

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