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Escalating AstraZeneca Spat Highlights EU Vaccine Fiasco
The EU’s standoff with AstraZeneca over delayed vaccine deliveries has widened, with Germany taking aim at the U.S.
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Shipping Container Crunch Shows Signs of Easing
A global shortage of shipping containers that’s sent ocean freight rates skyrocketing shows signs of easing.
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Shippers Saw a Need for Bigger Vessels, But They Built Them Too Big
Here's why the cost of shipping goods out of China is soaring right now.
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China’s Disputed Virus Theory Has Shoppers Shunning Foreign Food
The World Health Organization has said there’s no evidence of people catching the coronavirus via food and food packaging, while China has taken increasingly drastic steps to test and halt imports.
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Watch: Will We See Progress in Infrastructure Funding in 2021?
James H. Burnley IV, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation and now a partner in the law firm of Venable LLP, weighs the chances for progress — at long last — on funding and construction of critical infrastructure projects under the new Biden Administration.
Will We See Progress in Infrastructure Funding in 2021?
Brexit Border Trouble Grows as Key Customs System Maxes Out
A key U.K. government customs system has been overwhelmed within weeks of Brexit and threatens to trigger more disruption as freight traffic rebounds.
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Piracy Surge Off West Africa Draws Maersk Call for Action
Pirate attacks have pushed up insurance and other costs for shippers operating off West Africa, with some resorting to hiring escort vessels manned by armed navy personnel.
A crane carries shipping containers owned by AP Moller-Maersk A/S away from a ship. Photo: Bloomberg.
How China Won Trump’s Trade War and Got Americans to Foot the Bill
President Trump famously tweeted that “trade wars are good, and easy to win” in 2018 as he began to impose tariffs on about $360 billion of imports from China. Turns out he was wrong on both counts.
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Watch: How U.S. Trade Policy Will Change in the Biden Administration
Damon Pike, international tax principal and leader of the customs and international trade practice of BDO, discusses what are likely to be the differences and similarities between the Trump and Biden administrations’ approaches toward trade.
How U.S. Trade Policy Will Change in the Biden Administration
Brexit Is a New World Businesses Still Need to Figure Out
British businesses probably didn’t expect to start 2021 worrying about wooden pallets after a year of grappling with the coronavirus and a meltdown in the economy.
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Ten Ways COVID-19 Has Changed the World Economy Forever
Economic shocks like the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 only arrive once every few generations, and they bring about permanent and far-reaching change.
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Brexit Deal May Be Too Little, Too Late for U.K.’s Car Industry
The auto industry dodged disaster when the U.K. and European Union sealed a post-Brexit trade accord, but not before carmakers announced factory closures and called off plans to make several new vehicles in the country.
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