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- Automation and robots to enhance the flexibility of the plant, including the capacity to run significant processes remotely or alone.
  
  Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Manufacturing Business Amid COVID-19
- Overall, China produces some 90 percent of the world’s fireworks.
  
  DESPITE TRADE TENSIONS FIREWORKS EXPORTS FROM CHINA ARE BOOMING
- AP teams have been laboring under manual work and partially automated processes for so long, it's hard to imagine someone taking all that work off their plate.
  
  How Do Electronic Payment Solutions Fulfill Supplier Needs?
- India (198M tonnes) remains the largest whole fresh milk consuming country in Asia, accounting for 54% of total volume.
  
  Asia’s Milk Production Is Expected to Increase by 2% in 2020
- We will examine ten steps to consider to ensure you’re being as thoughtful and rigorous as possible in your response to risk.
  
  How to Get a Handle on Risk in Uncertain Times: 10 Important Considerations
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- Having the right combination of technology, expertise, people, and solutions in place is critical as companies revisit their supply chain strategies.
  
  Leveraging Digital Technology to Create a More Resilient Supply Chain
- In today's world, businesses are faced with a variety of challenges that require they quickly adapt resources to address a dynamically changing environment
  
  How Modern Services Enable Agility, Elasticity and Mobility in an Enterprise
- Even before the pandemic, the subtext of the U.S.-China trade war was U.S. pressure on companies to reexamine and “rebalance” the structure of their supply and production networks.
  
  THE PANDEMIC DISRUPTED GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS BUT WERE THEY ALREADY MORPHING?
- The SBA also confirmed that its rules regarding foreign affiliates are applied to PPP applicants in the same manner as its other programs.
  
  SBA Extends Safe Harbor Deadline to May 14, 2020 and Confirms that Foreign Affiliate Employees Must be Counted for Size Purposes
- A report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) projected that accelerating investment in renewable energy could underpin the global economy’s COVID-19 recovery by adding almost $100trn to GDP by 2050.
  
  Can Emerging Economies Afford a “Green” Recovery from COVID-19?
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Logistics
- Automation and robots to enhance the flexibility of the plant, including the capacity to run significant processes remotely or alone.
  
  Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Manufacturing Business Amid COVID-19
- We will examine ten steps to consider to ensure you’re being as thoughtful and rigorous as possible in your response to risk.
  
  How to Get a Handle on Risk in Uncertain Times: 10 Important Considerations
- Moving stuff with drones is heating up beyond the logistics and transportation sector.
  
  THAT BUZZING IS THE SOUND OF FREEDOM: THANK THE DEFENSE INDUSTRY FOR THE RISE OF DRONES IN LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION
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Site Selection
- In ASEAN you have an opportunity to link supply chains from a hub like Singapore, which offers first-class amenities, to less developed markets with eager and driven populations rising out of poverty and looking for jobs in factories and a more modern lifestyle.
  
  Global Trade Talk: Navigating Geopolitical Currents in a Changing Southeast Asia
- In the 2018 Wayfair decision, the Supreme Court said states could require companies with an “economic nexus” to their state to collect sales and use taxes.
  
  How the U.S. Supreme Court Wayfair Decision Affects Small Business
- According to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. employs close to 130,000 people in the oil and gas extraction industry.
  
  U.S. States and Metros Hit the Hardest by the Drop in Oil Prices
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- The SBA also confirmed that its rules regarding foreign affiliates are applied to PPP applicants in the same manner as its other programs.
  
  SBA Extends Safe Harbor Deadline to May 14, 2020 and Confirms that Foreign Affiliate Employees Must be Counted for Size Purposes
- In many countries, the 2020 bear market is simply a continuation of the bear market that began in 2018.
  
  The Bear is Back: A Global Pandemic
- “Technology companies have been the dominant deal makers in the AI space. However, with AI making inroads into diverse sectors, the buyer universe in expanding and the space is also attracting investments from non-technology companies."
  
  Report: U.S. Companies Led AI-Tech Acquisitions 2014-18
- "CORE’s solutions also extend beyond mail and parcel shipment tracking, with air cargo tracking solutions that we can add to our Global Logistics Network.”
  
  Descartes Announces Acquisition of CORE Transport Technologies for Air Cargo Support
- “GlobalTranz is clearly executing on its strategy of driving growth both organically and via complementary, accretive acquisitions.”
  
  GlobalTranz Boasts Ninth Acquisition in Two Years
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Departments
- HOW WE REACT TO UNFAIR TRADE, 1773-2018 EDITION
- There is little doubt that our economy will not be the same in the post novel coronavirus world.
  
  A Human Perspective – Global Business in the Post COVID-19 World and The New Norm
- TRUMP STYLE The oft-repeated suggestion that Trump properties rely on gaudy decor couldn’t be further from the truth, as witnessed by the stately elegance on display at The Old Post Office.
  
  TRUMP’s OLD POST OFFICE pavillion
- STRENGTH IN NUMBERS The cochineal bugs were the secret to some of the most vibrant dyes in the world—but it took roughly 70,000 dead bugs to make a pound of cochineal.
  
  HOW MILLIONS OF TINY INSECTS COLORED GLOBAL TRADE
- The EAPA probe confirmed that Newtrend only manufactures and ships glycine to the U.S. manufactured at its affiliate in Thailand, Newtrend Food Ingredient Co., Ltd.
  
  NEWTREND USA VINDICATED BY CBP’S FINDING OF NO EVASION
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SBA Extends Safe Harbor Deadline to May 14, 2020 and Confirms that Foreign Affiliate Employees Must be Counted for Size Purposes

Late on May 5, 2020 the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued another round of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that extended… Read More

Top Banks For Global Trade

Elaine Pofeldt 5:23 PM 12/16/2015

What’s the most important thing about your export program? Getting paid, of course—but there’s so much more that goes into… Read More

Trade With Confidence

Elaine Pofeldt 8:44 AM 12/14/2015

Andrew Borakove, owner of Gongs Unlimited in Lincoln, Nebraska, sells his musical products all over the world, to everyone from… Read More

Kellogg's acquisition of Egyptian company is part of strategy of expansion in Africa, with the expected result of higher volumes of export cargo and import cargo in international trade.

Kellogg Acquires Egyptian Breakfast Cereal Maker

Haylle Sok 3:00 AM 10/6/2015

In its latest move to expand its footprint in the African market, Michigan-based breakfast food and snack giant Kellogg has… Read More

Cover Your Assets

Peter Buxbaum 11:04 AM 10/1/2015

Wheeling Truck Center in Wheeling, West Virginia, started exporting almost by accident in 2010 when operations manager Chad Remp checked… Read More

Settling In Asia

Elaine Pofeldt 10:03 AM 10/1/2015

Exporter Fred Crosetto doesn’t mince words when asked what it is like to open a bank account in Asia. “It’s… Read More

‘Substantial Megadeal Growth’ In Second Quarter Transportation and Logistics M&A

Peter Buxbaum 5:00 AM 8/18/2015

Mergers and acquisitions activity in the transportation and logistics sector grew in the second quarter of 2015, according to a… Read More

Settling In Europe

Elaine Pofeldt 4:37 PM 6/10/2015

Your product is selling like gangbusters in the U.S.—and you’re certain it’ll be a sleeper in Europe. Should you open… Read More

Dogged Due Diligence

Elaine Pofeldt 11:35 AM 4/20/2015

While hunting for a supplier to make cute sweaters and shoes for dogs, a U.S. pet food firm asked consultant… Read More

China banks holding low gold reserves but may be misreporting and manipulating international currency markets.

Chinese Banks Low On Gold Reserves. Maybe.

Haylle Sok 3:00 AM 4/9/2015

In a world where money flows more freely over borders—both real and virtual—than in any time in human history, it’s… Read More

FedEx Offers To Acquire European Freight And Parcel Courier

Haylle Sok 9:06 PM 4/8/2015

In a major transatlantic deal, express delivery giant Federal Express has made an offer to acquire Netherlands-based rival TNT Express… Read More

Wells Fargo: U.S. Companies Anticipate Export Decrease In 2015

Haylle Sok 9:07 AM 4/2/2015

Amid concerns of weak global economic conditions, U.S. companies anticipate a decrease in the volume of exports and profits stemming from international business this year, according to the latest Wells Fargo International Business Indicator.

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