Supply Chain Research

Supply Chain Edge: Olympian sourcing, Mexican metals, expensive memories

July 26, 2024

– The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games present an opportunity to revive the declining sports equipment and apparel supply chains, which saw US imports drop from US$20.97 billion in 2021 to US$14.85 billion in 2023.
– Elsewhere in consumer goods, there are protests in Bangladesh an... Read more →

Supply Chain Edge: Tariff man dons his cape once more; Australia gets more Pacific

February 9, 2024

• The impact of Red Sea shipping disruptions is becoming clearer. In new research, we look at the impact on Australian supply chains of both shipping challenges and port strikes. Container shipping prices are falling, partly due to expectations of excess supply. Taiwan’s government is not conc... Read more →

Ford price hikes, DB Schenker package halts show start of U.K. trade travails

January 15, 2021

U.K. merchandise trade activity inched ahead by just 2.4% year over year in November. While that reversed 10 months of declines there was a marked split between exports which dropped by 16.3% and imports which improved by 19.0%. The drop in exports included an 85.7% slide in oil exports to Chi... Read more →

Yaris Import Crash The First of Many Tough Choices for Toyota

November 7, 2018

Toyota has started to rationalize its model offerings in the U.S. market in response to declining auto sales. That can be seen in global revenues that fell 2.3% on year earlier in the third quarter as well as a 1.7% drop in global production in the 12 months to Sept. 30. In particular Toyota w... Read more →

Trump’s Tariffs Trim, Don’t Yet Transform, Imports of Section 232 Metals

July 9, 2018

America’s section 232 duties on steel and aluminum, introduced by the Trump administration at the end of March and extended at the start of June, have so far trimmed rather than transformed U.S. metals imports. The volume of imports fell 16% in May vs. March levels while seaborne shipments in ... Read more →

No Deal, or Just Brexit Technicalities?

October 10, 2017

The British government has called for a “unique” post-Brexit trade deal in the midst of the fifth round of talks with the EU, and ahead of a EU Council (heads of state) meeting to consider whether to proceed to trade talks on October 19. It has also published two papers that will set post-Brex... Read more →

Americans Raise More Glasses as Beer Imports Accelerate Into Labor Day

August 31, 2017

Americans’ beer drinking habits are changing. Demand in June – the peak month of the year – increased by just 0.3% on a year earlier, with Mexican imports rising 3%. Imports from further afield saw Belgian beers (39% lower) lose out to those from Germany (43.4% higher). More recently though gr... Read more →

Thai Acid Shippers May Get Sour Taste from U.S. Dumping Probe

July 17, 2017

The U.S. ITC will continue anti-dumping and subsidization investigations into citric acid exports from Thailand, Colombia and Brazil. Thailand is likely to be the main target, with a 45% increase in exports to the U.S. in the 12 months to May 31. Total imports to the U.S. fell 3% in May and 5%... Read more →

Bite Already Taken Out Of Citric Acid Imports Before Commerce Review

June 27, 2017

The U.S. Commerce Department will proceed with an investigation of alleged dumping of citric acid by producers in Thailand, Belgium and Colombia. The move is not a surprise – Commerce has proceeded to investigation with all the petitions brought so far this year. Panjiva data shows exports to ... Read more →

Scent of Thai Dumping in Household Product Ingredients May Be Investigated

June 6, 2017

The U.S. ITC has received a petition to investigate citric acid exports from three countries including Thailand from ADM, Cargill and Tate & Lyle. While this is the fifth chemicals case currently under investigation, it is the only one focussed on household products and food rather than commer... Read more →

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