Last year, 40 percent of the world’s reported incidents of seaborne attacks occurred in the Gulf of Guinea, including every ship hijacking and 78 of the 83 crew members taken for ransom.
Over the past two decades, China’s Huawei Technologies has come to dominate the global telecom equipment market, winning contracts with a mix of sophisticated technology and attractive prices. Now, with Huawei at the center of a U.S.-China trade war, the tide is turning.
As the trade war between the U.S. and China heats up, it’s becoming clear that the dispute won’t end in a quick resolution. Nevertheless, importers must take action now, to protect themselves from the disruption that’s sure to result.
China’s scramble to import as much meat as possible to compensate for the drop in pork supply from a pig-killing disease has left it with a big problem: Cold storage space at its major ports is running out.
Giant Manufacturing Co. saw the writing on the wall early on. The world’s biggest bicycle maker started moving production of U.S.-bound orders out of its China facilities as soon as it heard Trump threaten tariff action in September.
Both foreign and domestic companies are pivoting production away from China amid Trump’s efforts to reset the parameters for global trade and manufacturing.