While ports across Texas resumed operations, the intermodal chain continued to face challenges in Hurricane Harvey’s wake, reports Transport Topics. After closing to brace for the powerful hurricane, ports at Corpus Christi, Galveston and Houston returned to normal...
Preliminary determination in AD/CVD investigations sets rates as high as 68 percent for duties on biodiesel imports from Argentina and Indonesia. Duties are applied 90 days retroactively to Argentine shipments. The Department of Commerce has determined that exporters...
Examining the Strategic Role of Affected Deep-water Ports As of today (August 30), it’s too soon to gauge Hurricane Harvey’s impact, let alone target dates for recovery. Even as the rains eased in Corpus Christi (near the hurricane’s landfall) and Houston, Harvey has...
More Venezuelans join the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list of sanctioned individuals. A new executive order prohibits U.S. dealings in Venezuelan government stocks and bonds. The U.S. continued to ratchet up Venezuela sanctions with the aim of achieving...
The USTR plan for renegotiating NAFTA is largely about bringing it in line with trade policies developed since 1994. What’s really new: The U.S. states its goal is to reduce the U.S. trade deficit. Talks are set to open August 16. The first round of talks to revise...
Children’s taste in toys is changing, with ever younger consumers opting for smartphones and videogames instead of building blocks. Lego is joining other industry leaders in shifting focus to toys for a digital era, Fox Business reports. Picking up a logistics news...
The FDA’s Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) implements provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act. Leading businesses are enabling compliance, considering data management and implementing a holistic regulatory strategy. By Myra Reynolds, LCB, CCS,...
Oil logged a weekly gain of more than 8% Friday, July 28 — the largest such rise since early December, MarketWatch reports. Three developments indicating tighter supplies ahead are lifting prices: The U.S. is reporting a drop in its domestic stockpiles. The political...
Thirteen current and former government officials in Venezuela are designated for sanctions that freeze their U.S. assets and bar U.S. persons from doing business with them. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has added 13...
With Argentine Congressional approval, the free trade agreement signed by trade bloc members and Egypt in 2010 will enter into force within a month. Argentina announced it has sent its formal ratification of the Mercosur-Egypt FTA to the regional trade bloc’s...
