Supply Chain Solutions to the Supply Chain Crisis

The daily news has highlighted the bottleneck at U.S. ocean ports, especially the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach, where 40% of products arrive from Asia. At an industry function in November of 2021, Ron Brown, the Port of Oakland Maritime and Commodities Representative, shared his perspective regarding the backlogs at the ports and said the Read more about Supply Chain Solutions to the Supply Chain Crisis[…]

Forced Labor

Customs & Border Protection (CBP) detained 1,469 shipments of merchandise from October 1, 2020 and September 30, 2021, according to the CBP Forced Labor Statistics report, published September 30, 2021. The reason CBP detained the imports is to prevent merchandise, produced in whole or in part in a foreign country, using forced labor from entering Read more about Forced Labor[…]