Trade and Compliance
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How the FMC monitors ‘blank sailings’ and their competitive impacts
Chairman Michael Khouri explains how the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission keeps track of COVID-19-induced ocean container carrier sailing schedule changes for anticompetitive behavior.
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Commentary: COVID-19 severely impacts the ‘Blue Economy’
Lori Ann LaRocco illustrates the disruption to global trade by profiling what has happened at the Port of Miami since the coronavirus pandemic began.
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Maersk aims to expand European customs brokerage footprint
Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller -Maersk has reached an agreement to acquire Sweden-based customs brokerage to offer increased import clearance services to European shippers.
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Under USMCA, Canada rolls with ‘new NAFTA’
For Canada, United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) makes trading with the United States a bit more complicated. And it may create some headaches for the trucking…
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Owner-operators flag USMCA’s scrutiny of Mexican cross-border trucking
$3.8 billion in U.S. trucking revenue at stake in U.S.-Mexico cross-border freight.
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CBP makes it easier for shippers to obtain manifest data confidentiality
For years, exporters and importers have been frustrated by the former U.S. Customs and Border Protection process to withhold their names and addresses in manifest…
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Only certainty in ocean trade is uncertainty
Although “Containers Don’t Lie,” the story they are telling may not reveal the entire picture.
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US to hit Canada with aluminum tariffs, report says
The Trump administration’s reported plans to re-impose tariffs on aluminum imports from Canada could threaten cross-border supply chains. Or is it just a negotiating tactic?
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Commentary: Degrees of freedom in the skies
"Freedom of the Skies" is tempered by landing slots at airports, which are controlled by the governments the airports are in. In the high-stakes world…
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Commentary: COVID-19 pushes India down path to digitized trade documentation
Digitization of forms and the use of blockchain will cut costs and time from the supply chain. Brian Aoaeh writes about those issues in India.
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