Trade

Leading policy and technology experts will deliver keynotes.

With the July 9 deadline for finalizing trade deals approaching, the Trump administration is advancing its global tariff strategy. This report outlines the latest developments in tariff implementations and ongoing negotiations with key trading partners. Details of U.S.-China Trade Deal High-level negotiations in London, concluded on June 10, 2025, have produced a framework agreement with […]

Container rates to the U.S. West and East coasts stayed above $5,000 per FEU as tariff talk and labor issues shadowed shippers’ plans.

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One route during the Han Dynasty connected Europe and Asia and was the start of trade and supply chains as we know them today.

Criminals looking to steal high-value cargo are attracted to the vulnerabilities associated with international border crossings.

EU’s ban on diesel fuel from Russia shifts trade patterns

Flexport and Shopify are partnering on a new app designed to reduce the complexity of managing ocean shipments for small businesses.

Mexico approves ending daylight saving time

Supply chain planners will walk a precarious path in 2023, according to S&P Global transportation expert Paul Bingham.

Canada remains top US trading partner

Vaclav Smil, author of “How the World Really Works,” joins FreightWaves’ Supply Chain Meets FinTech event to talk about supply chain frictions.

Federal Maritime Commissioner Dan Maffei says in an interview that the bill will return “credibility to the supply chain.”

Transborder freight between the U.S. and North American countries (Canada and Mexico) in January 2022

Fancy a Moscow mule or White Russian? Get ready to change brands.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants the Biden administration to spend less time correcting economic problems the chamber feels don’t exist, and more on trade.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Canada again beats Mexico to remain the top U.S. trade partner; Merqueo raises $50 million to expand across Latin America; Aries Worldwide Logistics opens Laredo office; and CBP in Texas intercept a rare pest in a produce shipment.

Mexico Remains Top US Trade Partner, Canada No. 2

Doing business in China is tricky and companies could get sucked into the political quicksand, so best to have an exit strategy to avoid reputational risk, experts say.

It’s not that companies can’t operate without China, it’s just that for now, said companies will not grow as fast as they could with it, and will likely do so with lower margins. In a retail world constantly balancing sales and profit, avoiding China is giving up both for many Western brands.