The outbreak of Coronavirus in China has created an equipment shortage as blanked sailings, quarantines, labor shortages see equipment pile up in ports with no ships to board. Regardless of how fast items are coming off the assembly line,...
More information comes in every day regarding the Coronavirus outbreak in China. Cases have found their way to various other cities around the world and the WHO has declared the official name to be COVID-19. The impact on the...
President Trump has announced new tariffs on steel and aluminum derivative products at 25% and 10% respectively. While the initial tariffs on the raw materials impose in March 2018, these new tariffs will cover approximately $500 million in goods....
On January 15, 2020 President Trump and Vice Premier Liu He signed the preliminary “Phase One” agreement, culminating more than a year of negotiations, tariff increases and dead ends. The agreement sees Chinese purchases of US Agriculture in exchange...
After months of negotiations it looks like the USMCA trade agreement could be almost finished. Governments on both sides, including an initially reluctant democrat controlled house, have come together with only one final issue. Labor concerns over the treatment...
Just announced this morning, the United State and China have come to a “phase one” agreement. After months of tit-for-tat increases and false starts, both sides have settled on a solution that will prevent the December 15th implementation on...
Effective on January 1, 2020, the minimum security criteria for members of CTPAT will be updated. The changes are not openly available to the general public for security reasons, but members can view the full set of updates via...
Tariff talks between the US and China have stalled regarding the agriculture buy that China is expected to make in efforts to restart the negotiations. After a wild year of back and forth, some movement was expected after the...
We have written before about state of negotiations between the US and China regarding the ever escalating tariffs developing. While there was good news about a so-called “Phase 1” deal that would offer importers and exporters from both countries...
A new contract, signed last week with Weeks Marine, marks the start of the new dredging of the Port of Virginia to 56 feet. This will enable the port to service vessels up to 18,000 TEUs, making it the...
