Today’s global supply chains are so complex that merely identifying all of the parties involved in getting product to market, especially where there’s the potential for fraud, can be hugely difficult. So why not just cut out those intermediaries and deal directly with the actual supplier of raw materials?

Lee Smith, attorney and leader of the International Trade & Security Practice of the law firm of Baker Donelson, lays out the major trade issues that importers and exporters are likely to encounter in the coming year.

Dan Dreyfus, global customs leader with EY, discusses how government agencies can embrace digitization of supply chain processes, in partnership with the private sector.

Businesses now find themselves confronting an inevitability: that the health of their bottom and top lines depends on how adeptly they manage the costs associated with the overall environmental impact of their products, services and actions.