The New Era of Supply Chain Uncertainty Just when the world thought the turbulence of COVID-19 had settled, a new set of challenges is shaking up global trade. Recent trade policies by the Trump administration imposing additional U.S. tariffs on imports from...
Descartes Systems Group, the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, released its February Global Shipping Report for logistics and supply chain professionals. U.S. container imports reached a record for the month of January at...
Import volumes across the US in July surpassed both 2021 and 2022 levels for the first time this year, reaching their highest levels since May 2022. Read more
American consumers just keep on spending — and the volume of containerized imports keeps on rising. October import numbers released Tuesday by Descartes came in exceptionally strong. Read more
A projected rise in US import volumes suggests retailers are optimistic about the holiday season, while the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes are taking a toll on retail sales and the US economy is showing signs of slowing. Meanwhile, US supply chains have so far...
Port of Los Angeles executive director says protracted contract negotiations are pushing importers to Gulf and East Coast gateways Imports into the nation’s busiest container port complex in Southern California are plummeting as U.S. trade sputters and retailers and...
10/10/22 – Demand for Asian goods began dropping earlier this year. This is now having a delayed — and highly negative — effect on U.S. imports. Read More
It would not have been outside the realms of possibility to think that the start of the New Year would marked by a lull in U.S. import volume. Afterall the traditionally quieter December month was as frenetic as it has been compared with the previous six months. The...
U.S. tariffs on imports from China consigned the traditional peak shipping season to the ghosts of Christmases past this year. The U.S.-China trade war pushed the U.S. import shipping volume trend line for 2019 to an early peak in July before driving TEUs [20-foot...
Despite some of the most popular confections being produced in the United States, the imports of chocolates and candy still represent nearly $9 billion in value annually. For confection imports as well as the raw materials to produce them (HS 17 and 18), the first...
