Drought is making one of Brazil’s most important river systems unnavigable, making it more challenging and costly for the commodities powerhouse to get grains and iron ore out to global markets.
Michael Bloomquist, legislative and government affairs partner with the law firm of Venable LLP, discusses the politics of, and prospects for, passage of the $1 trillion-plus infrastructure proposal put forth by the Biden Administration.
Laura Fraedrich, global trade and policy attorney with Lowenstein Sandler LLP, explains why the United States and European Union set aside their bitter and longstanding dispute over aerospace subsidies.
Craig Bailey, associate principal for strategy and business transformation with The Hackett Group, Inc., details how the COVID-19 pandemic affected working capital, inventory levels, corporate debt and payments to suppliers during 2020.
Some of the world’s biggest footwear and garment companies are seeing production pinched as factories in Southeast Asia struggle to keep the lights on amid one of the world’s deadliest COVID-19 resurgences.
China and the U.S. are shipping goods to each other at the briskest pace in years, making the world’s largest bilateral trade relationship look as if the protracted tariff war and pandemic never happened.
Andrew Viteritti, commerce and regulations lead with The Economist Intelligence Unit, shares the conclusions of a recent whitepaper that predicts no major shift of manufacturing from Asia to North America over the next four years.
Congestion from an influx of goods continues to overwhelm port terminals, exhaust warehouse space and strain transportation connections like trucks and rail depots.