Panjiva Research Articles
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Trump’s tariff opportunities, slashed rebates, early holidays |
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Trump’s tariff thinking, wood recycling, chip splitting |
Wednesday, November 06, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: After the big one, Bluey’s the best, semiconductor slowdown |
Friday, November 01, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Tracking chips, cutting costs, container caution |
Friday, October 25, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Transition inflection, tariff deflection, laptop limitation |
Friday, October 18, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Fixing supply networks, ASML vs. Nvidia, Trump’s tariff plans |
Friday, October 11, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: The next early rush, EV rivalry, tariff sunburn |
Friday, October 04, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Waiting for the big election, dealing with a big strike, putting out fires |
Friday, September 27, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Strike time, Middle East AI, forestry feuds |
Friday, September 20, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Supply chain attack, de minimis shrinks, tariffs settled |
Friday, September 13, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Two faces of AI, huge Halloween, 3D limits |
Friday, September 06, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Tough time for Turkey, Canada’s canola caned, HP’s printer challenges |
Friday, August 30, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Center of AI attention, the electric herd, clean Lego |
Friday, August 23, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Milk and metal mayhem, reshoring recliners, tracks in turmoil |
Friday, August 16, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Back to school sprint, CS3D risks, Pixel’s focus |
Friday, August 09, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Early peak evidence, AI chip delay, Chile’s woes |
Thursday, August 01, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Building on the ‘70s, delaying tariffs, shipping slips |
Friday, July 26, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Olympian sourcing, Mexican metals, expensive memories |
Friday, July 19, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Surge protection, managed de minimis, forestry failings |
Friday, July 12, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Three speed semiconductors, auto tariffs bite, hurricane hazards hit |
Friday, June 28, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Eyes on the horizon, UK election prospects, the electric bandwagon |
Friday, June 21, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: India’s future, pork’s tariffs and Sonos Inc.’s headphones |
Friday, June 14, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: EV tariffs arrive, dealing with droughts, Apple adds to the AI wave |
Friday, June 07, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Corporate focus on supply chains wanes, tariff details matter |
Friday, May 31, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Under the EU influence, spinning up electronics |
Friday, May 24, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Rates rise, corporate concerns, tariffs trigger tariffs |
Friday, May 17, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Tariffs made a comeback, flooding in Brazil |
Friday, May 10, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Apple branches out, early peak evidence |
Thursday, May 02, 2024
Supply China Edge: Tech restrictions widen, Adidas kicks inventory, rate boom returns |
Friday, April 26, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: America’s tariffs, battery finance chickens, freight’s silver lining |
Friday, April 19, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Aluminum sanctioned, Aries seized, Apple spreads |
Friday, April 12, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Stellar start, building ban, India’s Apple |
Friday, April 05, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: ONE’s big target, Taiwan’s quake, solar’s eclipsed |
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Bridge to the future, peak season prep, new chips |
Friday, March 22, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Trump’s car directions, AIS off, AI memory on |
Friday, March 15, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Red Sea inventory fallout, smart strikes, fab spending |
Friday, March 01, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Beyond AI, refrigerator reflation, limited Red Sea scope |
Friday, February 16, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Red Sea meets Black Friday, cars impounded, PlayStation cut |
Friday, February 09, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Tariff man dons his cape once more; Australia gets more Pacific |
Friday, February 02, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Shipping rates reverse, AI saves the day |
Friday, January 26, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Shelving Red Sea plans, ‘forceful measures’ for EVs |
Friday, January 19, 2024
Supply China Edge: Red Sea ripples through trains, automobiles and warehouses |
Friday, January 12, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Tesla’s canal route pain, upbeat apparel, mixed chips |
Friday, January 05, 2024
Supply Chain Edge: Linking 2023 and 2024; cross-strait tensions; Japan’s earthquake |
Friday, December 22, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Stormy 2024, Red Sea security, tariff reviews ahead |
Friday, December 15, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Reversible reshoring, Israeli supply chain risks, EU’s mainland China strategy |
Friday, December 08, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Disjointed world, Tesla’s woes, bad canal choices |
Friday, December 01, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Apparel outlook, strike hangover, beer-by-train |
Friday, November 24, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Outlooks for resilience and semiconductors; rare earth restrictions and vessel hijacking |
Friday, November 03, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Striking back, Panama problems, worrying shipments |
Friday, October 27, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Graphite retaliation, chip restraints and levelled-up consoles |
Friday, October 20, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Amazon problems, earnings lessons, sinking gin |
Friday, October 13, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Israel-Gaza war risks for electronics and healthcare; 14-month consumer downturn ends |
Thursday, October 05, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Decorated supply chains, strike strategy revealed |
Friday, September 29, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Outlook for supply chains – time, tariffs and tracking |
Friday, September 15, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Strike hits, green Apple, boring supply chains |
Friday, September 08, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Peak season expectations, mysterious phone, more blocked lithium |
Peaking like it’s 2019: 2023 US peak season supply chain activity |
Friday, September 01, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Navigating forests, strikes ahead, localized Lego |
Thursday, August 24, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Halloween shock, AI-powered chip recovery, mineral protections |
Friday, August 18, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Dealing with forced labor, going back to school, restricting computers and tin |
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Getting the right environment: Air conditioner supply chains |
Supply Chain Edge: Apple’s season, cooling aircon, tin canned |
Friday, August 04, 2023
Time for phase two: Mexico as a supply chain reshoring center |
Supply Chain Edge: Mexi-shoring, India’s moment and sportswear on track |
Friday, July 28, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Rice restrictions, Barbie’s trip, batteries’ delay |
Friday, July 21, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Moving to Mexico, clearing the chip traffic jam |
Friday, July 14, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Judging calm, recycling rags, striking potash |
Friday, June 30, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Right place, right time – outlook for Q3’23 |
Friday, June 23, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Two ways to make Britain greater |
Friday, June 09, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Seasonal clock ticking for labor settlement |
Friday, June 02, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Athleisure close to achieving balance |
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Resized inventory, splintered memory, active volcano |
Friday, May 19, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: COVID no more, tariffs in abeyance |
Monday, May 15, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Consumer slowdown is slowing down |
Friday, May 05, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: A light in the semiconductor tunnel |
Friday, April 28, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Mighty microchip buyers |
Friday, April 21, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: The new Vietnam |
Friday, April 14, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Slower, steadier and smoother |
The new Pacific island: UK supply chains access CPTPP trade deal |
Monday, April 03, 2023
Rapid apparel reshoring: Alternatives to sourcing from Myanmar |
Friday, March 31, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Athleisure swims after flying |
Friday, March 24, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Smoothed chains, popped stocks |
Friday, March 17, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Furniture flattened, apparel folded |
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Flat pack flattened: February 2023 maritime supply chain activity |
Friday, March 10, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Yeezy deflates kicks |
Tuesday, March 07, 2023
Illuminating shipping: Indian solar supplies drive volume growth |
Monday, March 06, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Mobile smartphone manufacturers |
Friday, February 24, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Vietnamese sneakers slip |
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Supply Chain Edge: Fording the EV gap |
Wednesday, February 01, 2023
Shore Thing: Supply Chain 2023 Outlook |
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Supply Chain Edge: Ever Forward stops short; Xbox keeps growth up through the holidays |
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Ever Forward stops short |
Guess guesses correctly with early orders |
Xbox keeps growth up through the holidays |
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Supply Chain Edge: US February imports record-breaking anew; HMM, digital forwarders top February |
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
US February imports record-breaking anew |
Qurate, Mattel may feel effect of Shenzhen lockdowns |
Hyundai, digital forwarders top February |
Wednesday, March 09, 2022
Supply Chain Edge: Inflation keeps growing; Revlon and Volkswagen take on supply chain challenges |
Tuesday, March 08, 2022
Inflation keeps growing as shipping rates dip |
Revlon beautifies its supply chains |
Volkswagen carrier sinks imports |
Wednesday, March 02, 2022
Supply Chain Edge: Russian invasion of Ukraine adds strain to supply chains; Peloton restructures |
Tuesday, March 01, 2022
Russian invasion of Ukraine adds additional strain to stretched supply chains |
Peloton restructures to boost efficiency, reduce cost |
Avocados avoid logistical mush |
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Supply Chain Edge: Zim, Amazon lead carriers, forwarders; bridge closure could impact Ford, GM |
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Ford, GM could feel impact of Detroit bridge shutdown |
Zim, Amazon lead carrier, forwarder January growth |
Wednesday, February 09, 2022
Supply Chain Edge: Normal January. Normal year?; Talking supply, expecting inflation |
Tuesday, February 08, 2022
Supply chain, inflation top subjects of Q4’21 earnings calls |
Neumann, Coffee America brew import success |
Normal January. Normal year? |
Wednesday, February 02, 2022
Mattel, Hasbro outplay congestion challenges; GE, Regal turn to Mexico |
Tuesday, February 01, 2022
Columbus McKinnon taps Asia to reduce backlog |
GE, Regal show largest truck exports from Mexico |
Mattel, Hasbro outplay congestion challenges |
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Supply Chain Edge: Tyson Foods buoyed by high chicken prices; container loss may hit Expeditors |
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Philips diversifies transport, wants visibility from suppliers |
Expeditors may feel impact of ONE container loss |
Tyson buoyed by high chicken prices; inflation hits foodstuffs |
PPG faces escalating costs, turns to nearshoring |
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Supply Chain Edge: Keeping up with demand in 2021; Matson, Amazon forwarding lead December imports |
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Matson, Amazon forwarding lead December imports; rates inch up |
Friday, January 14, 2022
2021 in review: Keeping up with demand |
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Supply Chain Edge: Panjiva 2022 Outlook; Ningbo’s COVID-19 lockdown could hit GoPlus, Dollarama |
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Panjiva 2022 Outlook: At the tipping point |
Wednesday, January 05, 2022
Ningbo’s heightened COVID-19 restrictions could hit GoPlus, Dollarama |
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Supply Chain Edge: ZIM leads 2M, Ceva imports surge; phase one purchases too late |
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Santa ramps up toy imports in November |
ZIM leads 2M, Ceva imports surge in November |
Energy, corn, chips drive late surge in US exports to China |
Wednesday, December 08, 2021
Supply Chain Edge: Adidas, Nike face Vietnam challenges; US-EU steel rhetoric could hit Shimano |
Tuesday, December 07, 2021
Fujifilm pivots to drugs as printing fades |
General Motors could be impacted by new Mexico trade rules |
Vietnam sourcing still problematic for Adidas, Nike |
Shimano could face higher costs if US-EU steel rhetoric plays out |
Wednesday, December 01, 2021
Supply Chain Edge: Amazon, ZIM have booming October; no gifts for renewables |
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Amazon forwarding booms; K+N, DSV sustain YOY growth |
Yarn, wind power face new duties; olives poised to wrinkle US-EU relationship |
ZIM, MSC lead 2M import growth in October |
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Supply Chain Edge: Holiday shopping shipped early, Ford, GM hit by chip shortage |
Tuesday, November 09, 2021
Xbox still outplays rivals in October |
Record October imports as US holiday shopping shipped early |
Ford, GM see impact of chip shortage |
Wednesday, November 03, 2021
Supply Chain Edge – Special Report: Steel Section 232s swapped for quotas, retaliatory tariffs axed |
Tuesday, November 02, 2021
Special Report: Thyssenkrupp, Voestalpine set to gain from sweeping US-EU steel and aluminum deal |
Ferrero, Callebaut hit sugar highs in Q3 |
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Supply Chain Edge – PPE down from pandemic highs; Canada and Mexico worried about US EV tax breaks |
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Ford, Volkswagen could shift if EV credits charge up |
Mahle, Valeo may see additional costs from aluminium foil ruling |
REC Silicon shifts sourcing to China |
Danaher cuts imports; PPE down from pandemic highs |
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Supply Chain Edge – ZIM, DP-DHL lead carriers and forwarders; Samsung, LG could get relief in LA |
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Furniture, leisure imports hit ceiling as U.S. sales perk up |
ZIM, Matson lead carriers, DP-DHL and K+N lead forwarders in slowing September |
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Samsung, LG could get a break in Los Angeles traffic |
Wednesday, October 06, 2021
September shows slower growth; holiday trends emerge |
Supply Chain Edge – Samsung, Panasonic could use Renesas boost, Costco joins self shippers |
Tuesday, October 05, 2021
Xbox maintains lead over PlayStation, Nintendo |
Ford announces EV plants amid battery import surge |
Samsung, Panasonic could use boosted Renesas capacity |
Monday, October 04, 2021
Costco secures ships to mark down congestion |
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Supply Chain Edge – Q4’21 Outlook: The logistics of cheer; U.S. Steel bets on 232 |
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
HB Fuller fights inflation with price increases, China consolidation |
U.S. Steel looks to capitalize on record-high prices |
Monday, September 27, 2021
Q4’21 Outlook: The logistics of seasonal cheer |
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Supply Chain Edge – ZIM, MSC lead in August; Chinese retail imports decline |
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Danone, L’Oreal imports could submerge in U.S.-French tensions |
Chinese retail imports decline as leisure, e-commerce lead sales |
ZIM, MSC lead 2M to top August carriers |
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Supply Chain Edge – DHL, K+N lead forwarders in August; healthcare, staples, IT slow import growth |
Monday, September 13, 2021
Reduced by WRO, Top Glove imports face competition |
DHL, K+N lead forwarder pack in August; European acceleration slows |
Friday, September 10, 2021
Toro braces for inflation after steady summer |
Healthcare and staples join technology in August import slowdown |
Wednesday, September 08, 2021
Supply Chain Edge – JOANN and Qurate ship Christmas, GM hit by chip-related shortage |
Monday, September 06, 2021
Greif raises prices, boosts imports in packaging expansion |
GM nearshoring, still faces chip-related closures |
Friday, September 03, 2021
JOANN and Qurate ship Christmas in July |
Wednesday, September 01, 2021
Supply Chain Edge – Alleviating congestion through digital transformation; Vietnam lockdowns |
Neumann, Shin Etsu in the path of Ida |
Monday, August 30, 2021
IKEA, Adidas, seek recovery in Vietnam as new outbreak looms |
BJ’s Wholesale covers inflation with aggressive cost-cutting |
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Helping alleviate supply chain congestion through digital transformation of seaports |
Supply Chain Edge – Walmart takes control as retail soars; solar safeguards up for review |
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
GM squeaks by pre-pandemic levels, Mexico disputes RoO requirements |
Walmart takes control of shipping to meet retail demand |
LONGi, JinkoSolar power imports despite safeguards |
TJX offsets freight surge with price rise, cost cuts |
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Supply Chain Edge – Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk raise flags; inflation breaks through supply chains |
Monday, August 16, 2021
Supply chain inflation bow wave washes into Q3’21 |
Super Micro, Asus fight high demand with imports |
Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk flag strained system, new services as growth slows |
JDE Peet’s unafraid of supply chain cost inflation as Brazil coffee crisis looms |
Friday, August 13, 2021
Panjiva Daily – Dollarama, Dick’s and the Ningbo closure; Adidas deals with Vietnam challenge |
Thursday, August 12, 2021
Sonos supply chain volume growth turned down, less concerned about Malaysia |
Adidas tackles Vietnam challenge with regional reallocation, reduced inventories |
Nissan’s recovery, Marelli’s Malaysian auto export surge may lose traction |
Dollarama, Dick’s may face peak season disruptions as Ningbo Zhoushan closes |
Panjiva Daily – Expeditors expects elevated rates until 2022; congestion on the way back to school |
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
GoPro goes after fakes, cuts inventories and restructures supply chain |
Expeditors, DP-DHL see higher-for-longer rates as Europe exposure leads |
H&M, PVH face congestion on the way back to school |
Panjiva Daily – Semiconductors, apparel slow US import growth; vaccine diplomacy hides ingredient exports |
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
GCP shifts sourcing around congestion, force majeure |
Competition to donate doses accelerates; pharma ingredients in decline |
Panjiva Daily – Hasbro, Mattel cool off; Nintendo and Sony discuss COVID-19 challenges |
Semiconductor shortage, COVID-19 closures cut into U.S. import growth |
Monday, August 09, 2021
JBS, WH Group have momentum challenge as Chinese meat inspections return |
Nintendo, Sony see risk, disruption in COVID-19 resurgence |
Mattel, Hasbro shipments cool after bumper sales of outdoor toys |
Panjiva Daily – Paying for the battery revolution; ThyssenKrupp, SSAB scale up in steel |
Sunday, August 08, 2021
Panjiva Insights: Who will pay? The outlook for large-capacity batteries |
Suez scarring improves appeal of new Orient Overseas service |
Thyssenkrupp, SSAB scale up steel shipments; long wait for tariff leniency ahead |
Friday, August 06, 2021
Panjiva Daily: After three years, final tariff talks months away; GM shifts chip strategy |
Thursday, August 05, 2021
GM, Stellantis look to long-term solutions as Malaysia clouds semis situation |
After three years, final U.S-China tariff talks still have months to go |
ZIM Shipping, MSC face attention in FMC’s surcharge inquiry |
Xylem clogged by labor, inflation; diverts sourcing back to China |
Wednesday, August 04, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Mitsubishi’s chip shortage silver lining; O&M handles inflated glove costs |
GE, Schneider Electric avoid tariffs, receive insights into Trump trade policy |
Semiconductor shortage silver lining seen by Mitsubishi in better autos margins |
Owens & Minor handles elevated glove costs; PPE shipments scaling back |
Cummins takes $100M hit from supply chain inflation; more of the same ahead |
Tuesday, August 03, 2021
Ferrari’s precision drives production past semiconductor shortage |
Becle prioritizes profits, price rise as tequila supply chain faces shortages |
TJX, Goodyear Tire may face Vietnam challenge as port closure looms |
Panjiva Daily: Ferrari’s precision supply chain drive; Vietnam port challenge for TJX, Goodyear |
iRobot sweeps through congestion, pivots to Malaysia |
Monday, August 02, 2021
Looking further into the future – July 2021 in 10 reports |
Panjiva Daily: Footwear’s fancy supply chain footwork; vaccine rollout worries |
Steve Madden, Wolverine World Wide show fancy supply chain footwork |
Cargotec tackles supply chain problems, awaits U.S. Infrastructure Bill |
Sunday, August 01, 2021
Matson joins the 2022 chorus, growth slowing but still substantial |
Vaccine rollout questions remain, AstraZeneca maintains shipments to Mexico |
Thursday, July 29, 2021
Pentair, Donaldson look for pricing to wash away supply chain cost inflation |
Biden’s stricter Buy American rule may require Mack Trucks to shift gears |
Panjiva Daily: Ford’s three-prong supply chain strategy; Biden’s stricter Buy American stance |
DSV Panalpina’s third upgrade comes with view of normalization in 2022 |
Ford weighs on U.S. trade activity, implements new supply chain strategy |
Panjiva Daily: Mattel, Hasbro play with supply chain strategies; 2022 normality for logistics |
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Mattel, Hasbro play with shipping, pricing strategies to optimize supply chains |
Panjiva Insights: The path to normal stretches far into the future |
RPM, PPG awash in coating demand, aiming to cover supply chain inflation |
C.H. Robinson joins the 2022 recovery chorus while building market share |
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Tesla hacks its way around chip shortage, Signify shines a light on inventory |
UPS’s ocean freight forwarding booms as e-commerce packages drag |
Signify shines a light on inventory to tackle “crazy bullwhip” |
Tesla’s nine day buffer faces more port congestion, chip shortage risks in H2 |
Farmers, energy suppliers at risk as U.S.-China relations remain frosty |
Monday, July 26, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Pandemic risks renewed in apparel; TSMC, Intel expect chip woes into 2022 |
Cosco Shipping drives China’s shipyards ahead while KSOE faces cost inflation |
TSMC, Intel expect tight supply chains into 2022 as GM trims output again |
Savannah surge likely to continue to 2022 as Walmart leads CMA CGM higher |
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Thule pushes up pricing as supply chain costs rack up |
Pandemic risks renewed for apparel-makers as Bangladesh locks down |
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Carbon tariffs spread, Indian steel at risk; Electrolux headwinds to continue |
Brexit Watch: Showdown with EU set as U.K. asks for Northern Ireland customs relaxation |
Fever-Tree shipments heat up despite mix of logistics challenges |
Sleep Number overcomes supply chain nightmare, raises prices |
Electrolux expects bigger impact from supply chain challenges in H2’21 |
ArcelorMittal, JSW Steel face risks from U.S., EU carbon border tariff initiatives |
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
U.S. warning on Hong Kong may add to China trade friction |
Panjiva Daily: K+N expects rates to roar into 2022; BNSF makes MSC’s life more complicated |
K+N expects seafreight rates to continue to roar through to Year of the Tiger |
BNSF’s rail limit complicates life for MSC as West Coast congestion continues |
Samsung, Foster Electric supply chains secure as Vietnam reaches currency deal |
Monday, July 19, 2021
Hapag-Lloyd warns of China reefer import issue as poultry shipments slide |
Brexit Watch: Sainsbury’s, Tesco may switch food supplies if customs aren’t reformed |
Panjiva Daily: Maersk revamps Asia services; new challenges for China food flows |
Cheniere, Sempra Energy may need more India sales as EU methane rules evolve |
Maersk’s new service may bring Deichmann, H&M back to Chennai |
Panjiva Daily: Nike runs into Vietnam problems; apparel, leisure imports lag sales |
Sunday, July 18, 2021
Leisure, apparel supply chain activity lags as retail sales boom in June |
Panjiva Insights: Government policy, national security and supply chain resilience |
Volkswagen shipping goes green as activity remains below pre-pandemic levels |
Nike may run out of Vietnamese sneakers as COVID-19 accelerates |
Thursday, July 15, 2021
Panjiva Daily: “Fit for 55” to boost supply chain costs; corporate inflation focus at 10-year high |
Voxx tunes into Taiwan as supply chain costs rise |
Inflation focus hits 10-year high as import prices, shipping costs soar |
Presidential power affirmed as Turkey loses steel tariff appeal |
“Fit for 55” brings higher costs, continued uncertainty for supply chains |
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Panjiva Daily: South African protests disrupts supply chains; DP-DHL, DSV lead forwarder boom |
South Africa protests may disrupt supply chains for Lenzing, Mahle |
Starbucks, JM Smucker face higher prices as Brazilian beans dry up |
Roku takes a hit in patent case, supply chain activity slowing |
DP-DHL, DSV lead forwarder boom in June as Europe outpaces China |
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Lupin, Cadila may have growth opportunity from Biden’s drug competition order |
Levi Strauss leads by taking flight, heading east to secure growth |
Panjiva Daily: Levi Strauss, JinkoSolar use alternative logistics strategies in congested times |
Back-to-school imports not back to pre-pandemic levels despite rebound |
Maersk grabs more of JinkoSolar’s shipping, may lose some of LONGi’s |
Monday, July 12, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Biden’s regulatory wave for shipping; food hoarding to beat inflation |
Shipping alliances face risk of regulatory wave from Biden’s competition order |
Nintendo’s Switch reboot takes toll on short-term shipments |
USMCA Watch: General Motors labor issue resolved, signs supply chain normalizing |
Fresh Del Monte, WH Group lead U.S. food boom as inflation hoarding starts |
Panjiva Daily: Shipping surge includes electronics slide; Samsung SDI backs Biden’s battery bet |
Sunday, July 11, 2021
Container shipping surge hides electronics, apparel slowdown |
Thursday, July 08, 2021
Top Glove, Hartalega’s Malaysian shutdown leaves U.S. more reliant on China |
Samsung SDI may want Biden’s cash to settle on new battery factory |
China tariff removal may help but not remove computer chip shortage |
McCormick scales back imports after spicing up inventories |
Panjiva Daily: Watch the Olympics, boost the deficit; Esquel seeks Xinjiang Entity List removal |
Wednesday, July 07, 2021
BRF wants more China export licenses but the Middle East is a bigger challenge |
Esquel fights Xinjiang labor designation, L.L. Bean sticks by non-China supplies |
CNH Industrial faces worst-in-career supply chain, keeps parts flowing |
Auto slowdown slowing down as U.S. sales stumble on shortages |
Olympics may help U.S. trade deficit set another new record |
Tuesday, July 06, 2021
Panjiva Daily: The fallout from trade policy rivalry in Q3’21; tackling Mexican food inflation |
Few routes safe from surcharges as CMA CGM hikes India-Mexico rate |
Ridley, ADM may have role to play in AMLO’s food price inflation battle |
Q3’21 Outlook: The fallout from pandemic planning and trade policy rivalry |
Monday, July 05, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Fallout from short-term planning, under-investment – Q3’21 Outlook special edition |
Q3’21 Outlook: The fallout from underinvestment in logistics |
Q3’21 Outlook: The fallout from short-term supply chain planning |
Thursday, July 01, 2021
Panjiva Daily: ‘Zillions’ of calls for a $20,000 deal; scaling up India’s vaccine imports |
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Feeling congested, bean better – June 2021 in 10 reports |
Going fishing for deals – July 2021 supply chain calendar |
Crocs snaps at peers’ alleged IP infractions as supply chain activity surges |
Herman Miller in the chair for higher supply chain costs, raises prices to compensate |
Cipla scales up imports as Moderna gets Indian vaccine nod |
A ‘zillion’ calls and $20,000 – Container shipping rate update, June 2021 |
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Evraz, TMK face dual duty squeeze as Russia manages metals inflation |
Panjiva Daily: Suzuki chopped by chip shortage; L’Oréal may decide if CMA CGM is worth it |
Medical protectionism in decline but cheap masks may change minds |
Suzuki chopped by chip shortage, inventories buffering shipments for now |
L’Oréal may decide it’s not worth it after CMA CGM adapts Europe-LatAm service |
July 4 set for a bigger bang after vaccinations, elevated firework imports |
Monday, June 28, 2021
Panjiva Daily: FedEx labor costs to be delivered to customers; rising trade war tensions |
Lego’s recycled brick adds sustainability and complexity to supply chain |
H&M, Levi Strauss face disruptions from renewed lockdown in Bangladesh |
Ford bucks trend as autos apply brake to U.S. trade recovery |
China-U.S. phase 1 trade deal delivery options overshadowed by Taiwan, Xinjiang |
FedEx expects customers to pay for labor constraints as volume growth continues |
Panjiva Daily: Shipping flow woes spread to Shanghai, SeaTac even as Yantian recovers |
Sunday, June 27, 2021
Hankook, ATD move out ahead of tire duties |
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Biden’s Xinjiang solar crackdown may cast shadow over LONGi, JinkoSolar |
Nord Stream 2 completion could leave U.S. LNG looking for alternatives |
SeaTac joins the congestion club as Maersk, MSC shipments surge |
Stanley Black & Decker, Makita may face Shanghai hazard as Yantian issues pass |
Panjiva Daily: Gamestop levels up; Peloton goes corporate; NYK gets green |
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Yamaha, Honda may have new opportunities from Indonesia-Canada trade deal |
GE, Volvo have new options as Finland-India multimodal route arrives |
Peloton launches corporate program as supply chain pulls ahead of peers |
GameStop levels up as console availability, shipments remain low |
NYK cleans up car carriers in face of uncertain electric vehicle shipping future |
Panjiva Daily: Amazon may have to back out of forwarding; Polestar’s U.S. supply chain power up |
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Polaris uses flexibility to traverse rough supply chain terrain |
Polestar powers up in U.S. as Tesla shows localization is no guarantor of stability |
ADM, Cargill may face end of bean bounty on hoarding, harvest prospects |
Starbucks, Constellation Brands may face CMA CGM’s Oakland surcharge |
Amazon’s forwarding reach may be clipped by antitrust, Yantian challenges |
Monday, June 21, 2021
Panjiva Daily: What normal looks like for K+N; Maersk’s Brazil crash hits autos, food |
Daimler, BRF may face disruptions from latest Maersk shipping accident |
K+N expects second-half normalization, Vietnamese shipment worth watching |
China steel controls may barely ripple through Mexican supply chains |
USMCA Watch: JinkoSolar may lose if Canada’s solar argument proves powerful |
Long wait for lovers of Liverpool port including Baxter and Becton, Dickinson |
Panjiva Daily: China adds urgency to Biden’s pharma plan; threats to the container boom |
Sunday, June 20, 2021
China’s rising share of U.S. drug ingredients adds urgency to Biden’s new plan |
Congestion, carbon costs overshadow continued container shipping boom |
Diageo, Bacardi may be last winners from U.S.-U.K. thaw as TPA deadline looms |
Friday, June 18, 2021
Jags for snags at the heart of U.K. Australia trade deal that remains long way off |
Panjiva Daily: Ford, GM and Biden’s battery blitz; Boeing’s key to max-out phase 1 sales |
Thursday, June 17, 2021
La-Z-Boy actively dealing with logistics, cost challenges |
Ford, GM launch expansion plans as Biden charges up battery strategy |
BHP, Anglo American face Chilean copper cut as China aims to manage inflation |
Gallo invests in Charleston after wine shipments fizz up |
Boeing 737 may be the way to Max out phase 1 commitments |
Panjiva Daily: Steel left hanging after low flying fruit harvest; assessing Biden’s chip fix |
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
BRP hits seasonal jump over supply chain constraints |
Panjiva Daily: Freight forwarding’s bounteous growth; Home Depot sets sail |
Supply chain inflation locked in as import prices rise at fastest since 2010 |
Flex sees long-lived chip shortage as Biden looks for long-term fix |
Thyssenkrupp, Outokumpu still face tariffs after U.S., EU harvest low-flying fruit |
EU shrugs off Brexit drag to deliver faster export growth than U.S., U.K. |
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Home Depot sets sail with sales tailwind, congestion headwind for retailers |
Biden’s materials security aims depend on allies, emerging market spending |
UPS, DSV Panalpina show forwarders’ bounty from logistics challenges |
Removing $3.9B China tariff haul could ease U.S. supply chain inflation |
Remdesivir released, vaccines reserved under Indian export update |
Panjiva Daily: No rest for the stressed; exposures to Yantian disruptions |
Monday, June 14, 2021
Lovesac adds on sources as activity springs ahead |
No rest for stressed logistics networks as off-peak season looks elusive |
Brexit Watch: Sausage wars come at the wrong time for trade activity, U.S. relations |
Ikea, Qurate face shipping challenges as south China ports fight congestion |
Panjiva Daily: Biden’s 90 supply chain ideas and a pause for effect on tax |
Thursday, June 10, 2021
Nidec, Daimler face less attractive choices if magnets attract tariffs |
Biden’s 90 ideas provide long-term aims not short-term fixes |
Wednesday, June 09, 2021
Russia’s food price worries create another opportunity for U.S. farmers |
Monday, June 07, 2021
Toro stocks up for a hot summer |
Sunday, June 06, 2021
Donaldson turns to near sourcing to navigate supply chain storms |
Advance Auto Parts set to accelerate brake price rises as supply chains overheat |
Thursday, June 03, 2021
Pause for effect as Biden adds leverage for global tax talks |
Panjiva Daily: Resurgent pandemic tests tech supply chains; the losers from vaccine success |
Wednesday, June 02, 2021
JBS hack could chop meat exports, boost imports |
Aurobindo shows not all healthcare has been healthy during the pandemic |
Good news is bad news for Abbott Labs as testing kit supply chains slow |
Strikes join chips, costs and COVID-19 in Volkswagen’s list of woes |
Netgear, Samsung face pandemic disruptions from Vietnam’s staff shortages |
Panjiva Daily: Shipping looks back into the void; Diageo, P&G face logistics cost hike |
Tuesday, June 01, 2021
Volkswagen, BMW face power component patent case |
Fish the latest frontier in U.S.-China rivalry |
Trade recovery looks fragile as industries, countries diverge |
Diageo, P&G face rising shipping rates for Europe-Mexico routes |
Paying for the pandemic’s period of plenty – May 2021 in 10 reports |
Back into the void – S&P Global Platts container update, May 2021 |
Panjiva Daily: Decoding PC supply chains; policy and logistics issues to watch in June |
Monday, May 31, 2021
Dell, Lenovo flag historic lows in stocks, a year of price rises for PC supply chains |
Walk the walk, hang on to your hats – June 2021 supply chain calendar |
Thursday, May 27, 2021
CMA CGM’s express plans may run into Yantian gate closure |
Dick’s Sporting Goods faces constrained outdoor sports supply chains |
Fisher & Paykel leverage air freight to outpace medical supply peers |
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Panjiva Daily: The $6.8 billion purchasing gap; worse-for-longer for west coast ports |
Diversification opportunity for JBS, Hilton Foods from U.K.-Australia trade deal |
Global trade rebound may not be as good as it seems |
USMCA Watch: Mexico matters more for milk than Canada as dispute floodgates open |
Biden’s hand may be forced as China’s phase 1 purchases lag by $6.8B in April |
Worse-for-longer on west coast as Hapag-Lloyd identifies ongoing challenges |
Panjiva Daily: VF Corp.’s supply chain self-belief; tire bounce shows limits of tariffs |
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Aluminum supply chains about to get even more bureaucratic |
Aristocrat Leisure gaming machines slip, chip availability may be a risk |
Yokohama, Toyo tire bounce shows limits of tariffs |
VF Corp. believes it is best after navigating logistics challenges during pandemic |
Marfrig looks for scale in meat supply chain in post-pandemic recovery |
Panjiva Daily: Vaccine roads don’t just lead through Rome; the Biden-Moon 6G telecoms deal |
Monday, May 24, 2021
Biden-Moon deal could yield 6G telecoms opportunity for Samsung Electronics |
Panjiva Insights: Resilience in vital supply chains |
HMM, SM Line add capacity after Hyundai, Hankook appear to jump ship |
Tailored steel, aluminum retaliation plans set in motion by U.K. |
Rome Declaration useful, national commitments vital in delivering vaccine growth |
Panjiva Daily: Ford delivers for Biden; EU’s pivot away from China could help U.S. steel |
Sunday, May 23, 2021
Deere pays the price to avoid supply chain challenges, harvest growth potential |
Changes afoot for steel as EU trade policy pivots back to the U.S. |
The shoe industry might not be ready for a formal summer |
Friday, May 21, 2021
Ford delivers on Biden’s battery promise, Mexico may benefit |
Panjiva Daily: Turbulence ahead for greening of USMCA; semiconductor supplies stressed |
Thursday, May 20, 2021
JBS, Marfrig’s Brazilian beef could benefit from Argentine export ban |
USMCA Watch: Wind could cause turbulence for next round of negotiations |
China winning boat-building book as Japan resorts to tax breaks |
Stressed semiconductors need water, get liberal sprinkling of state support |
Indian Oil may switch away from American oil if Iran nuclear deal proceeds |
Panjiva Daily: Xinjiang cotton risks realized; global vaccine supplies interrupted |
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
ZIM Shipping expects growth, rates to remain elevated in rest of 2021 |
Panjiva Insights: Latin America versus the world – life after the pandemic |
J.M. Smucker, Neumann slurp up Brazil’s coffee as rainfall fails |
Serum Institute’s export delay raises vaccine supply retaliation risk |
Uniqlo falls foul of CBP over Xinjiang as Guess, H&M cotton on to China risks |
Panjiva Daily: Tackling inflated supply chains; Maersk goes long after short-term surge |
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
EU trade rebounds despite Brexit drag |
Mask dumping allegations come as supply chain activity slows |
Hapag-Lloyd adds India-U.S. service after unsatisfactory Q1 |
Maersk goes long as short-term shipping volumes, rates remain elevated |
Price hikes, trade cutbacks become more common as inflation worries widen |
Panjiva Daily: DP-DHL, Amazon show that size matters; Foxconn’s India iPhone challenge |
Monday, May 17, 2021
DP-DHL, Amazon gain from forwarder boom as demand, congestion trends continue |
Foxconn’s India challenge shows limitations of onshoring as a risk mitigant |
Brexit baggage continues to weigh on U.K. trade activity |
Qurate’s customers face higher costs as shopping boom brings shipping surge |
USMCA Watch: General Motors, Cardone in crosshairs of initial disputes |
Panjiva Daily: Peloton pays up to step up; Adidas’s costly hurdle |
Sunday, May 16, 2021
Sogefi aims for flexibility in an inflexible world |
Peloton pays up to step up shipments, faces further challenges ahead |
Friday, May 14, 2021
Sony needs to level up PlayStation supplies with shortfall through 2022 |
Monday, May 10, 2021
Union Pacific’s pop-up plans could help cut consumer goods congestion |
Sunday, May 09, 2021
Adidas spends to hurdle supply chain challenges, Puma leaps ahead |
Thursday, May 06, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Vaccine supply chains face more hurdles than TRIPS; pharma cargo cascade risk |
U.S. supply chain activity throttles back after record month, still powers ahead |
Vivo battery ban may drag on Indian phone supply surge |
GM looks to control the chip as semiconductor shortage cuts Mexican deliveries |
Cargo cascade could cut Cadila, Aurobindo drug exports to U.S. |
Biden’s TRIPS waiver support won’t guarantee short-run vaccine boost |
Panjiva Daily: Healthcare’s supply chain challenges; Stellantis’s chip issue accelerates |
Wednesday, May 05, 2021
Panjiva Daily: The no-peak peak season surcharge; iRobot and sticky supply chain strategies |
Ripples across the pond – S&P Global Platts container update, April 2021 |
Terex lifts prices to handle higher costs as maintenance demand jacks up |
Stellantis sees bigger chip hit in Q2, plans for supply chain recovery |
Intel’s new spending in New Mexico won’t clear the current chip shortage problem |
ResMed, Baxter show COVID-19 is not the only challenge for medical supplies |
Tuesday, May 04, 2021
Supply chains never sleep – Five lessons from the first five years of Panjiva Research |
Hapag-Lloyd, CMA CGM peak surcharges come without a peak season |
Energy, autos pull Canadian exports higher but still below 2019 levels |
iRobot shows stickiness of tariff-led restructuring as U.S. trade activity soars |
Beam Suntory, Bacardi stage Cinco de Mayo tequila turnaround |
Panjiva Daily: Steve Madden chases footwear demand; May’s the month for steel deals |
Monday, May 03, 2021
Star Wars merchandise expansion is the way thanks to The Mandalorian |
Trade investigators all abuzz as new honey dumping petition brought |
Steel deals, grinding gears – May 2021 supply chain calendar |
Sunday, May 02, 2021
Under unalleviated pressure – April 2021 in 10 reports |
Steve Madden’s footwear demand chase hobbled by logistics challenges |
Friday, April 30, 2021
Wabtec not yet on growth bandwagon as rail services beat equipment |
Panjiva Daily: Congestion risks for the “other” peak season; China’s steel tariff tactics |
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Hubbell’s China choice ensure goods flow in tight supply chain environment |
Electrolux passes on higher costs as refrigerator demand heats up |
Dana dances past supply chain challenges with expedited freight, pricier steel |
Peak season isn’t just for the holidays – seasonal challenges for supply chains |
China’s steel controls may raise costs for GM, Thyssenkrupp in Mexico |
Panjiva Daily: Biden’s next 1,361 days – onshoring, not big deals; CMA CGM’s high risk charge |
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Biden’s next 1,361 days – onshoring, vaccines and taxes but no big trade deals |
Mitsubishi, Honda plan for chip supply chain challenges in May |
India’s oxygen emergency requires steel export reductions |
CMA CGM may draw FMC’s ire with surcharge approach to export congestion |
EU Parliament approves U.K. trade deal, but Brexit uncertainties remain |
Panjiva Daily: Tougher-for-longer logistics outlook spreads; DSV Panalpina’s big balance plan |
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Simpson Manufacturing shrugs off bad weather, passes on higher supply chain costs |
Mattel, Hasbro may need holiday price hikes as supply chain costs surge |
Tougher-for-longer logistics outlook leads Maersk, MSC to rearrange routes |
DSV Panalpina diversifies further as systemic congestion continues |
Autoliv avoids semiconductor pileup it expects to continue until Q4’21 |
Panjiva Daily: K+N sees challenging remainder of 2021; the Mario Andretti supply chain attitude |
Monday, April 26, 2021
K+N sets eight-year expansion record as shipping for Miele, Toms booms |
Top Glove pumps up shipments ahead of forced labor block removal |
Vale’s iron ore exports enter third year of disruptions |
Thule and the Mario Andretti attitude towards supply chain management |
Husqvarna cuts into impact of higher supply chain costs with price rises |
Panjiva Daily: Grand targets, mundane actions – delivering climate change action |
Sunday, April 25, 2021
TE Connectivity reconnects with China as supply chain pressures continue |
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Grand targets, mundane actions – Supply chains key to tackling GHG emissions |
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Ford keeps the brakes on as semiconductor shortage continues |
Maersk’s autos link may help Suzuki as Indian auto sector recovery struggles |
Earth Day commitments flag need for decades of change in ocean shipping |
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Apple’s M1 route to supply security; container chaos hits Latin America |
ABB, Siemens may have new opportunities as Biden reviews power security |
Choppy pork trade may leave WH Group, JBS without main growth driver |
Apple’s M1 route may swerve shortages as PC demand stays on high road |
EU beats U.K. as global trade recovery keeps pressure on logistics networks |
Hapag-Lloyd seeks to stem southerly spread of container congestion |
Panjiva Daily: Localizing a global challenge – climate change special edition |
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Localizing the global climate challenge – Biden’s summit and supply chain reform |
Monday, April 19, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Suga-Biden deal success needs Tokyo Electron’s help; India needs vaccine APIs |
Mexican gas surge illustrates challenges of currency manipulation assessments |
Tokyo Electron, Tesla core to Suga-Biden strategic partnership |
Serum Institute pleads for COVID-19 supplies as U.S. slashes API shipments |
PPG Industries pencils in price rises as paint supply chains dry up |
Kansas City Southern expects autos microchip problem to reverse in H2’21 |
Panjiva Daily: Supply chains stressed beyond the max; Stellantis loses drive, raises prices |
Sunday, April 18, 2021
Lakeland Industries shows PPE not immune from supply chain inflation |
Stellantis engine plant loses drive while passing on higher costs in Brazil |
Volkswagen, Wallenius Wilhelmsen shine as chips cast cloud over ferry shipping |
LG Electronics, Qisda’s need for speed powers Matson to profit surge |
Friday, April 16, 2021
Container congestion not going away as supply chains stressed beyond the max |
Panjiva Daily: Fender volumes up as retail sales hit high note; tire shortage is down the road |
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Retail sales hit a high note as Casio, Fender volumes turn up |
Johnson Controls, Bosch may be candidates for Boston’s bigger boats |
Sentury, Cooper scale up tire imports as rubber concerns rise |
Giant, Kent cycle imports rally as elevated demand fulfillment continues |
LG Electronics ups washer capacity as imports soar during pandemic |
Panjiva Daily: P&G, Pepsico and the Transatlantic rate record; the missing March shipping lull |
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Lovesac delivers rapid growth at higher freight costs, risk of component problems |
Plastic’s fantastic import price rise shows supply chain inflation risks |
P&G, PepsiCo may face challenge from record Transatlantic shipping costs |
Ports miss March off-peak lull as shipping demand remains elevated |
WTO fish focus about more than just fish, Chile export growth mixed |
Panjiva Daily: Everyone loves localization; DP-DHL and the freight forwarding boom |
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Hapag-Lloyd warns of Oakland overload as port congestion moves north |
Everyone loves localization of semiconductors, Applied Materials and Intel act |
Minerva, Marfrig rein in beef packing, become more reliant on exports |
DP-DHL boosts outlook as forwarders’ shipping boom continues |
U.K.-EU relations remain fraught as medical supplies hit nine year low for February |
Panjiva Daily: The first 3 million TEU month; Biden’s electric vehicle spending to charge ahead |
Monday, April 12, 2021
PriceSmart’s time delays may have passed after bumper March imports |
First 3 million TEU month for U.S. imports as demand, congestion clash continues |
JinkoSolar price rise shines a light on supply chain inflation |
China’s steel price preoccupation could lead to export acceleration |
Biden set to charge ahead with EV investments after IP case settled |
Panjiva Daily: Levi Strauss, Constellation Brands push supply chain inflation downstream |
Sunday, April 11, 2021
Panjiva Insights: Words become actions, Q2’21 Outlook |
Merck, Thales may be beneficiaries from closer U.K.-Indonesia relations |
Friday, April 09, 2021
Constellation Brands set to push supply chain inflation into beer prices |
Levi Strauss cuts straight through logistics challenges, hikes prices |
Valero feels chill from winter storms as petroleum supply chains shiver |
Panjiva Daily: Shoes a victim of the tech trade war; steel tariffs have their place |
Thursday, April 08, 2021
Sigma Recycling may need new destination as Malaysia trashes U.S. trash |
Adidas, Primark sourcing from Myanmar still rising, may soon slow |
Netgear, Unizyx boost shipments with chip challenge on route ahead |
Posco, Thyssenkrupp may be preparing for an elusive tariff cut |
Wolverine World Wide, Nike likely to keep paying price for U.S.-China tech war |
Panjiva Daily: Biden commits as supplies slide; Starbucks, JDE Peet’s load up |
Wednesday, April 07, 2021
Canada helped by supply chain inflation, hindered by chip crunch |
Biden’s vaccine commitment comes as medical supplies import slide |
Boeing, Texas storms drag U.S. trade to 18th straight decline |
Norfolk Southern’s Chicago delays could cause challenges for Deere, Ikea |
Starbucks, JDE Peet’s load up on Brazilian coffee as prices turn over |
Panjiva Daily: Contracts for shipping, shipping not contracting; the chip shortage toll |
Tuesday, April 06, 2021
Illinois Tool Works, Kyocera may see nail tariff costs cut |
Brunswick looks to long-term with Daimler, GM as chips limit Q1 shipping |
Chip shortage taking a toll on auto shipments, sales may follow |
Panjiva Insights: The future of big boats, digitization and state-funded reshoring |
Contracting for shipping, shipping not contracting – S&P Global Platts container update, March 2021 |
Panjiva Daily: Biden’s big onshoring infrastructure plan; life after Suez |
Monday, April 05, 2021
Guess? and PVH navigate supply chain disruptions |
Life after Suez – April 2021 events calendar |
Toro, Briggs & Stratton may see costs climb due to snowblower case |
Thursday, April 01, 2021
Cast ashore in a sea of woes – March 2021 in 10 reports |
Biden’s $337B for onshoring, logistics could accelerate semiconductor onshoring |
Panjiva Daily: Whirlpool’s export explosion; Japan, Indonesia team up to tackle China dependence |
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Kao Corp, Natura face digital tax retaliation tariff makeover |
Whirlpool’s export explosion faces inevitable chip trouble |
Sharp, JVCKenwood may have China-to-Japan swap support for Indonesia |
Exxon Mobil, Koch face AMLO’s Pemex protection |
Sri Trang, Hartalega step up after forced labor ruling against Top Glove |
Panjiva Daily: 2021 Q2 Outlook special edition |
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Q2 2021 Outlook: Words become actions, threats going nowhere |
Panjiva Daily: Supply chain structures after Suez; the case against bigger boats |
Monday, March 29, 2021
Volkswagen, Renault take COVID-19 pause in Brazil as export sales slide |
Size isn’t everything as ports struggle with container vessel expansion |
Stellantis can’t dodge semiconductor shortage, still building parts inventory |
Maersk considers the canal ahead for just-in-time supply chains |
Suez blockage removed, supply chain effects could last for months |
Panjiva Daily: Ever Given refloated; Biden’s balance China relations, exports |
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Biden’s balance of China relations, phase 1 purchases key for exporters |
Friday, March 26, 2021
BRP’s boat business powers ahead with supply chain chop controlled |
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Steelcase uses price hike, alternative sources to tackle supply chain challenges |
LONGi, Canadian Solar cut shipments to U.S. as California casts a cloud |
Suzano’s break-bulk challenge wipes out Brazilian tissue wood pulp shipments |
Panjiva Daily: Ground, wind and fire perils for supply chains; Gamestop reboots imports |
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
GameStop reboots imports as freight costs power up |
Panjiva Daily: Tesla not enough for Biden’s battery bid; Ford joins the decontenting trend |
Nordex faces headwind from higher logistics costs, expects demand growth |
Pork export boom slows as health issues overshadow herd |
Ground, wind and fire – the perils of global supply chains |
Shipbuilding rides rising tide on container demand, emissions needs |
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Tariffs complicate chassis supplies in congested logistics network |
Diageo, Pernod Ricard may lift a glass to Tai-Truss progress, pandemic still a challenge |
Marfrig invests in U.S. beef as export demand slows |
Biden’s battery bid needs IP access as well as investment, minerals |
Ford joins GM’s decontenting trend with implications for global supply chain |
Panjiva Daily: Lipids versus doses, the EU-U.K. vaccine battle; CPKC’s USMCA opportunity |
Monday, March 22, 2021
Canadian Pacific Kansas City’s opportunities could include beverages, car parts |
U.S. oil import pickup arriving sooner than Saudi Aramco’s demand view |
Empty container handling imbalance widens, farm goods exports soaring |
ZIM Shipping quintuples contracts, bolsters volume growth in 2021 |
Croda, Thermo Fisher may get drawn into vaccine battle as EU hardens stance |
Panjiva Daily: FedEx sees slow European recovery; Nike trips on port congestion |
Friday, March 19, 2021
Nike trips on port congestion, higher freight costs as peers sprint ahead |
FedEx sees European freight recovery constrained until 2023 |
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Brexit, different customs approaches drag on global export growth |
Fireworks stuck at sea, pandemic casts cloud over July 4 celebrations |
Hapag-Lloyd recovery at risk as bunker-adjusted rates reverse |
Panjiva Daily: Biden’s critical mineral choices; Johnson’s tilt to help BMW, Merck |
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
AsusTek rides second screen boom, long term monitoring needed |
Toyota, Honda dips in production not just due to chips |
Japan lags global, imbalance semiconductor sector growth |
BMW, Merck may be winners from U.K.-India deal after Johnson’s tilt |
Biden’s critical mineral sourcing choices need more R&D, less regulation |
Panjiva Daily: Retail inventory blowout risks rise; GM cuts content to deal with chip shortage |
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Trade price inflation hits series record as materials prices, Chinese imports surge |
Inventory blowout risk rises as retail sales growth slows, imports soar |
Dorel, Specialized face uphill struggle meeting demand as costs climb |
Maersk’s vaccines-by-sea service could deliver Quad’s program |
General Motors discovers decontenting as way to deal with semiconductor shortage |
Panjiva Daily: Broken peak season port choices; Agfa’s pandemic exposure |
Monday, March 15, 2021
Thyssenkrupp fails in steel case, hasn’t lagged peers |
Agfa-Gevaert’s pandemic exposure leads to tough supply chain adjustments |
Tesco, Asda face elevated costs as CMA CGM hikes India-U.K. surcharge |
Broken peak season pattern leaves importers needing port alternatives |
CMA CGM expects growth to continue, care with tracking needed |
Panjiva Daily: Bigger means better for freight forwarders; 2M restructures for reliability |
Friday, March 12, 2021
Genesco needs port diversification as shipments, sales slip |
China’s five year plan has seven technology targets, watch for responses |
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Brexit customs bullet dodged by not pulling the trigger |
Adidas runs past pandemic challenges after tariff training |
Size matters for freight forwarders as shipping demand growth remains high |
Maersk, MSC restructure routes to rebuild reliability after raising market share |
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Supply chain inflation proves persistent with high freight, commodity costs |
Panjiva Daily: Supply chain inflation proves persistent; Stitch fix stays on time |
Flex, Sanmina flows slow, cutting into Laredo’s traffic |
Tata Power, Adani Green Energy face rising costs as solar import tariffs are hiked |
Stitch Fix deliveries still on time, even if costs increase |
Tuesday, March 09, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Shipping surge flows into February; Biden’s pharma supply chain targets |
CMPC feels a sense of paper supply chain emptiness |
H&M slashes shipments from Myanmar after coup |
Adient, Brose seat supplies in decline as plastics crunch looms |
Biden’s pharma study may focus on Chinese glycoside, vial supplies |
Shipping surge extends into February as consumer, pandemic needs remain high |
Monday, March 08, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Medical supplies slip before tariff cut; Nintendo set to level up its supply chain |
LVMH tariff pressure may be lifted as aerospace agreements taxi for takeoff |
Chinese PPE shipments drop ahead of U.S. tariff exemption extension |
Nilfisk faces 400% rise in freight costs, supply chain activity remains weak |
One year on it’s time to look two years back as China sustains trade growth |
Nintendo Switch overhaul follows console boom, logistics challenges in 2020 |
Panjiva Daily: The 50-cent semiconductor problem; autos acceleration heading at supply wall |
Sunday, March 07, 2021
American auto sales are trucking again, but Mexican supplies are in reverse |
Trump’s tariffs deliver desired outcome as U.S. trade activity remains weak |
B&G Foods faces rising freight, commodity costs as growth recovers in Q1 |
50-cent semiconductor problem yet to drag on Acer’s deliveries |
Friday, March 05, 2021
Spin Master slows after logistics issues; WowWee spins up shipments |
Thursday, March 04, 2021
Panjiva Daily: HNI, Urban Outfitters ready for work and parties; GM wrestles with chip problem |
Indonesian apparel needs help abroad as much as tariffs at home |
Pemex slashes oil exports, gasoline imports as demand remains weak |
Urban Outfitters ready to party as supply chain activity expands |
HNI ready for post-pandemic return for work as office furniture imports rise |
Semiconductor shortage chips away at General Motors’ production |
Wednesday, March 03, 2021
Panjiva Daily: K+N focused on rates not weights; Raimondo ready to tackle tariffs |
Qurate faces tough start to 2021 as logistics costs stay high |
K+N shows rates, not weights, matter; congestion set remain until summer |
USMCA power play possible as CFE gains new abilities, Vestas loses out |
Roku supply chain activity rolled over in January after Q4 surge |
Biden can get on with tariff business-as-usual with Raimondo confirmation |
Tuesday, March 02, 2021
A little off the top – S&P Global Platts container update, February 2021 |
Biden wants China to live up to its commitments as it misses 2021 phase 1 target |
Panjiva Daily: Biden’s China challenge as January target is missed; AMLO’s vaccine options |
Vale sales surge as iron ore, copper exports shine |
AMLO can’t rely on Biden for vaccines as AstraZeneca supplies start |
Continental shifts brake manufacturing as USMCA opportunity beckons |
Panjiva Daily: Back to the drawing board for supply chains; Big ports get bigger |
Monday, March 01, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Biden’s $51 billion planning exercise; America’s pressing export issue |
U.S. managers hope for rising exports as supply chains remain tight |
Paying the price, fighting the freeze – February 2021 in 10 reports |
Back to the drawing board – Risk must beat reward in post-pandemic supply chains |
Lifters face dumping duties as trade petitions decline |
Big ports got bigger in 2020 while meeting the COVID-19 challenge |
Sunday, February 28, 2021
100 days and five years – March events calendar |
Puma leaps logistics challenges in Q4’20 |
Becle’s logistics headache passes, pandemic still weighs on exports |
Friday, February 26, 2021
Tai sets out trade policy as expected, exports the more pressing issue |
Biden’s $51 billion supply chain planning exercise |
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Shipping surge slows in February; Seattle needles LA about space |
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Amazon, Sonos drive higher volumes for Matson |
bioMérieux expands test kit supplies, faces higher freight costs |
Seattle needles LA about space for container shipping |
Nautilus powers through poor logistics to continue expansion in Q1’21 |
Shipping surge abates in February, but far from washed out |
Panjiva Daily: Biden channels Trump on Hong Kong; Crocs and Birkenstock run ahead |
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Crocs, Birkenstock run ahead as casual leads footwear trade growth |
Dana faces expedited freight costs from supply chain bullwhip |
Stockpiled autos may stay parked as U.K. lockdown continues through April |
Biden channels Trump on WTO, Hong Kong |
Indian Potash, Coromandel fertilizer imports may wilt as prices peak |
Monday, February 22, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Tyson, Deere harvest farm export gains; athleisure jumps as apparel drops |
Tyson Foods, Mountaire outperform peers as meat lags U.S. food export boom |
Athleisure, Pakistan the winners as apparel trade loses ground |
Wallenius Wilhelmsen left behind as U.S. vehicle shipping recovers |
Albemarle powers up production as lithium export price hits five year low |
Deere faces higher freight costs as farm machinery demand booms |
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Biden faces hard steel choice as utilization recovers, Japan cuts output |
Panjiva Daily: DP-DHL looks to do better by doing good; Biden’s tough steel choice |
La-Z-Boy looks to speed up after supply chain volatility, heavy weather |
Jakks Pacific sinks after Frozen, yet to spin up ahead of Sonic the Hedgehog |
DP-DHL may do better by doing good with LCL emissions offer |
Friday, February 19, 2021
ArcelorMittal, Reliance face steel freeze with Mexican energy cuts |
Panjiva Daily: Texas storm sends shiver across energy supply chains; Michelin skids on tariffs |
Thursday, February 18, 2021
ZIM Shipping, Maersk plot greener course for shipbuilders |
Michelin loses traction as U.S. tire imports boom |
Winter storms disrupt oil supply chains from Aramco to Pemex |
Freight, furniture feeds import inflation as Fed flags supply chain constraints |
Texas freezes gas exports, could chill relations with Mexico |
Panjiva Daily: Apparel misses out on the retail recovery; frozen Texas plastic supply chains |
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Yamaha motorbike shipments accelerate as Honda, Kawasaki tap the brakes |
Japan’s trade recovery proves elusive as oil price, autos disruptions weigh |
Regal Beloit switches to Mexico as pool, cooling demand climb |
Adidas, Hanebrands lead import reversal as U.S. clothing sales slow |
Shin Etsu, Sasol among exporters facing Texas freeze |
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Winter freeze joins pandemic as challenge for port operators |
Tempur Sealy booming but constrained, mattress competitors reshore-once-more |
Sonic, Rolls Royce may help Expeditors’ boom continue in 2021 |
New round of strategic evolution beckons as bigger means better for forwarders |
Panjiva Daily: Freight forwarding’s strategic evolution; Expeditors’ boom continues |
Breville faces tight inventory, costly freight as appliance demand pops up |
Monday, February 15, 2021
Starbucks needs fresh supplies once Brazil’s coffee export surge slows |
Panjiva Daily: The $10B shipping inflation cost problem; Brexit’s oil and luxury car problem |
Chinese oil, U.S. luxury car buying a bigger issue than Brexit for U.K. trade |
Callaway Golf empties its bag as freight costs, supply constraints overshadow 2021 |
The $10 billion shipping inflation problem and corporate cost concerns |
Panjiva Daily: Recovery, resilience and life under Biden – special report |
Sunday, February 14, 2021
Panjiva Insights: Recovery, resilience and life under Biden – 2021 Outlook |
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Four automotive supply chain options for dealing with chip challenges |
Panjiva Daily: Four ways to tackle the chip shortage; Hasbro, Mattel’s playtime spoiled |
Kerry-SF Holding deal provides challenge to Amazon, DSV |
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Hasbro, Mattel expand as logistics cost inflation spoils playtime |
Maersk’s wild ride may be temporary, but still continuing in Q1’21 |
Inverter supply chains join tariffs in casting cloud over Biden’s renewables ambitions |
Panjiva Daily: No rest for logistics in 2021; Deckers Outdoor speeds past footwear peers |
Tuesday, February 09, 2021
Biden’s mask mandate boosts demand as imports slip |
Deckers Outdoor laps footwear peers, trips on logistics costs |
Assa Abloy locks in price increases to offset freight costs |
Quota-busting Canadians present Biden with aluminum dilemma |
No rest for logistics as pandemic drives consumer, healthcare trade activity |
Panjiva Daily: Biden’s cheese and China tariff choices; freight costs not yet brought to heel |
Monday, February 08, 2021
Super Micro power up Taiwan manufacturing as freight delays, costs rise |
Biden’s China tariff decision could be superseded by consolidated legal action |
Von der Leyen – Biden deal beckons as cheesemakers tackle pandemic, tariff disruptions |
ASEAN challenges may be next for Myanmar-connected supply chains |
Freight, labor costs trim Central Garden & Pet as stay-at-home demand soars |
Panjiva Daily: President Biden’s data-driven China choice; chips and ships a challenge for autos |
Sunday, February 07, 2021
Biden’s choice – the (not so) curious case of U.S. export weakness |
Friday, February 05, 2021
Peloton’s speedy shipping adds costs equivalent to 5% of revenues |
Thursday, February 04, 2021
Semiconductors aren’t the whole problem for Nissan, General Motors |
Scotts Miracle-Gro sows doubts about justification for freight cost hikes |
Sysco finds new routes for growth as pandemic continues to weigh |
Wednesday, February 03, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Winners and losers from India’s tariff budget; drivers of UPS’s growth spurt |
Pandemic drives art supply demand as Mitsubishi Pencil erases product line |
Ford, GM fire up Mexican supply chains as USMCA restructuring deferred |
Panjiva Daily: Ford, GM fired up in Mexico; JVCKenwood rides the autos recovery |
Tata Motors creeps ahead as luxury brands struggle to recover |
Sri Lanka’s port politics limits Japanese autos opportunity |
JVCKenwood’s supply chain volumes ride automotive recovery |
Tuesday, February 02, 2021
UPS forwarding surges ahead with autos, healthcare driving growth |
New year, new hopes, old problems – January 2021 in 10 reports |
CMA CGM switches fast service to Oakland after LA traffic jams |
Trade complaints soar in 2021, including can opener IP infraction |
ResMed, Danaher face continued demand, new headwinds in ventilator supplies |
POSCO may win, Kia lose from the latest round of “Make in India” tariffs |
Panjiva Daily: Myanmar coup fallout for supply chains; Stanley Black & Decker’s heroic freight costs |
Monday, February 01, 2021
Stay-at-home helps, freight costs hinder Stanley Black & Decker |
Looking peaky – S&P Global Platts container update, January 2021 |
Global trade recovery may be more fragile than it appears |
Nintendo shrugs off competition, logistics challenges to deliver higher score |
Myanmar coup leaves Samsonite, LL Bean with supply chain choices to make |
Panjiva Daily: C.H. Robinson’s double-digit, digital growth; EU restarts medical protectionism |
Sunday, January 31, 2021
USTR sets the tone; UPS, Maersk report – February events calendar |
EU lights touch paper for another round of medical protectionism |
Vietnam joins pressure on container lines to address soaring rates |
iRobot takes action against SharkNinja as cleaner trade soars |
Friday, January 29, 2021
C.H. Robinson’s double-digit, digital growth keeps it ahead of challengers |
Panjiva Daily: Soaring shipping costs hit Tesla, Autoliv earnings; new round of India tariffs loom |
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Logistics reliability vs. capacity vs. regulation; Nidec pursues outsourcing |
U.S. trade recovery contingent on farm sales, autos supply chains |
Shipping costs building up for lengthy U.K. construction supply chains |
Tesla tackles higher shipping costs as governments jostle to support battery onshoring |
Autoliv faces freight cost hazard while demand recovers |
Make in India tariffs reach refrigerators as Samsung, LG scale up supplies |
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Nidec pursues temporary outsourcing as motor demand fluctuates |
Reliability to trump capacity while risking regulation as container lines blank sailings |
PPG, Chemours roll on paint supplies, demand remains choppy |
Panjiva Daily: Biden’s Buy American matters most for infrastructure; no relief yet for logistics |
Levi Strauss awaits end-2021 for pandemic recovery, cuts inventories |
U.S. fisheries losing out as pandemic disruptions of supply chains continue |
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Smart doorbell imports knocked as IP infraction case arrives |
Biden’s Buy American provides a new vehicle for dealing with an old sector |
Key Tronic unlocks onshoring growth after pandemic, trade war |
Australian exports return to growth even as China trade war keeps its grip |
Deceleration, but no relief, for hard-pressed U.S. supply chains in January |
Panjiva Daily: Cashing in during logistics disruptions; meeting build-at-home demand |
Monday, January 25, 2021
Rare earth sourcing challenges set to become more common |
Richelieu, Home Depot build up imports as fix-at-home demand grows |
South Korea smooths sailing to Indonesia with port investment |
ZIM, Matson’s shipments to LA surge as pandemic takes toll on staff |
Orient Overseas joins ZIM in raising cash, competition remains fierce |
Panjiva Daily: Clock ticking for Biden’s WTO, steel actions; American Eagle’s undies up |
Sunday, January 24, 2021
Logitech turns up audio supplies, Asia ex-China sourcing |
Procter & Gamble bubbles up even as U.S. soap imports wash out |
Hyundai Steel case sets clock ticking for Biden WTO, steel decisions |
American Eagle Outfitters sales slip as Aerie underwear heads upward |
Friday, January 22, 2021
Maersk Essen diversion could eat into supplies for LG Electronics, Puma |
Panjiva Daily: Biden’s medical supply plan; steering through the autos skid in 2021 |
Thursday, January 21, 2021
JBS faces fewer disruptions as China cuts import restrictions |
South Korean shipyards win in December as China suffers setbacks |
Japan snaps export downturn as global semiconductor shipments surge |
Biden’s first actions may help EU relations, onshore medical supplies |
Panjiva Insights: Steering through the skid – Auto supply chains in 2021 |
Panjiva Daily: Phones by sea, accelerating empties – creative solutions to logistics congestion |
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Expeditors, UPS shift more phones, PCs as spend beats speed in air-to-sea switch |
Birkenstock, Crocs take a step in different directions during challenging 2020 |
Chinese aluminum output set to rise as U.S. imports return to growth |
WH Group, JBS may turn to Philippines as U.S. pork exports are chopped |
Empty container shipments surge, logistics decongestion far from complete |
Panjiva Daily: Prospects for Biden’s steel deal; Total goes greener |
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Biden’s steel deal with Europe faces utilization hurdle |
Consumer demand returns global trade to growth in November |
Containers, not consumption may be the challenge for cocoa |
Total steps into increasingly independent Indian solar power sector |
ADM leads Brazil’s soybean off-peak slump as Chinese imports slip |
Panjiva Daily: Damp squibs – Trump’s final trade actions; fast fashion’s slow recovery |
Monday, January 18, 2021
Damp squibs and longer lists – the final actions of the Trump administration |
Dalian pulls the plug on reefer imports as meat demand soars |
Foxconn scales up in Vietnam but China still leads laptop industry |
Import tide may be turning but rail networks remain out of balance |
Uniqlo shows continued pandemic challenges for fast fashion |
Panjiva Daily: Cool retail sales, hot refrigerator imports; soaring soybean winners |
Friday, January 15, 2021
Voxx supply stability allows firm to take advantage of stay-at-home spending |
Samsung, LG refrigerator imports heat up as retail sales remain cool |
Ford price hikes, DB Schenker package halts show start of U.K. trade travails |
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Panjiva Daily: DP-DHL beats peers, smashes estimates; new port strategies needed |
DeLong, Gavilon boost U.S.-China soybean shipments as prices soar |
Dupont, WM Barr face rising China import prices with little prospect of duty cut |
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Panjiva Daily: CES and the stay-at-home spending boom; rubber gloves shrink |
PriceSmart’s supply chain flexibility allows revenues to expand |
Break bulk recovery proves elusive as vehicle imports languish |
New lockdowns, old problems as two Chinese cities enter quarantine |
New port strategies needed with congestion worst at larger facilities |
DP-DHL smashes estimates after acceleration in forwarding boom in December |
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Past tense, future imperfect – the outlook for 2021 |
CES 2021 upgrades to TVs, laptops aimed at extending stay-at-home sales boom |
Pandemic gym buyers shrug off China tariffs that Biden will likely leave in place |
MSC Industrial tackles glove trouble as U.S. pandemic treatment imports slip |
Ford’s South American supply chain shift follows long-term Brazil downturn |
Matson sees favorable first half as MSC wins, Evergreen loses in December |
Monday, January 11, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Supply chain strategies for 2021; What pandemic? 2020 shipping beats 2019 |
2021 Outlook: Past tense, future imperfect |
Petronet, Reliance squeezed as China sucks up available LNG supplies |
Ericsson supply chain shifts as Samsung launches IP suit |
Firearms shelves empty despite weapon, ammunition import surge |
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Canada shines a light on Biden’s solar tariff plans with USMCA challenge |
What pandemic? U.S. imports in 2020 beat 2019 on sustained consumer surge |
2021 Outlook: Life (during) after COVID-19 – supply chain strategies |
Friday, January 08, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Tough on China, (re)making friends – Biden’s trade policy in 2021 |
Semiconductor shortage chips away at Honda, Nissan production |
Thursday, January 07, 2021
Panjiva Daily: COVID-21, China and straits – outlier risks for 2021 |
2021 Outlook: Tough on China, (re)making friends – U.S. trade policy |
iPhone, Xbox help, pandemic hinders as U.S. trade activity remains weak |
Saudi delivery cuts, Mexican rules keep U.S. oil supply chains off balance |
Early Christmas, lasting challenges – S&P Global Platts container update, December 2020 |
Wednesday, January 06, 2021
Panjiva Daily: Altogether, apart – global trade policy in 2021; pandemic > Brexit for U.K. apparel |
Daimler, VW confident of prolonged sales surge as imports rise |
2021 Outlook: COVID-21, mines and straits – outlier risks for supply chains |
Peru’s copper export slide started by Antamina, could be followed by Las Bambas |
SQM presses on with lithium expansion as export prices slide |
Tuesday, January 05, 2021
Export order expectation rebound takes a breather |
Maersk leads solar shipping as logistics costs complicate tariffs |
Next not worried about Brexit, global logistics is the issue |
Panjiva Daily: Time to pay the pipers – logistics outlook for 2021; Hino’s supply chain challenges |
2021 Outlook: Altogether, apart – Global trade policy issues |
Monday, January 04, 2021
Panjiva Daily: What lies beneath the Brexit TCA; what you missed over the holidays |
Hino’s supply chain slows ahead of engine compliance pause |
Seasonal produce review widens, potentially testing USMCA dispute system |
2021 Outlook: Time to pay the pipers – Logistics issues |
Africa may pay as India returns to medical protectionism with vaccine limit (update) |
Sunday, January 03, 2021
Deals, demand and orders – what you missed over the holidays |
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
2020 Review: Pandemic, discipline and failing to fail – What we got wrong this year |
2020 Review: COVID-19, phase 1 and Brexit – 12 events that shaped global supply chains |
Monday, December 28, 2020
2021 Outlook: What lies beneath – Nine issues to watch in EU-U.K. supply chains |
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Panjiva Daily: B.1.1.7 adds to Brexit risks; Bark & Co. bounds ahead |
Monday, December 21, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s currency conundrum for Biden; the growing retail mismatch |
Bark & Co. bounds ahead on strong holiday demand, fetches IPO |
Maersk adds Novo Nordisk to pharma roster as shipments stall |
LA’s toy story is one of triage as Hasbro, Mattel face congestion |
Evergreen Marine, Yang Ming called to heel as shipping rates soar |
Brexit Watch: B.1.1.7 highlights risks to U.K. food, medical imports |
Thursday, December 17, 2020
FedEx on long growth runway with supply chain growth set to follow e-commerce boom |
Life After the Elections: Trump leaves currency conundrum, tariffs for Biden |
Life After the Elections: Toyota, Daimler show adaptations to U.S. steel tariffs |
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Post pandemic gears slip for autos; winners from the China-Australia trade war |
Retailers face growing mismatch between sales, import growth rates |
Panjiva Insights: What to watch for U.S. trade policy under the Biden administration |
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Life after the elections: Trump leaves Turkey arms test for Biden |
China’s Australia coal restriction provides Banpu, Bumi Resources with opportunity |
M&S, Tesco shipping costs rise as CMA CGM adds emergency India surcharge |
Life after the elections: Tough luck for Iowa as Brazil ethanol deal fails |
Life after the elections: Biden tariff reset would come with complications |
Ford, VW miss a gear as U.S. auto demand slips, challenges abound |
Panjiva Daily: Modi’s aspirations versus Biden’s policies; Apple investigates India supplies |
Monday, December 14, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Mattel, Hasbro leave it late in 2020; cutting Huawei out of telecoms supply chains |
Greif counting on pandemic recovery after supply chain restructuring |
Life after the elections: Modi’s deal aspiration faces Biden’s trade, onshoring policy |
Palm oil prices get out of hand as Wilmar, RGE Group exports dip |
Brexit Watch: Hutchison Ports at epicenter of disruption as shipping rates treble |
Apple investigates supply chain as Wistron faces labor unrest |
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Lakeland draws on pool of supply chain expertise to meet pandemic demand |
United Natural Foods delivers beverage, sauce growth during pandemic |
Mattel, Hasbro leave it later to wrap up 2020 toy imports |
Huawei removed from supply chains as Trump’s telecoms rules are applied |
Friday, December 11, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Bigger means better for forwarders; Georgia on our minds for trade policy |
Dollarama helped by holiday demand, supply chain retains China exposure |
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Pandemic hygiene supply chains pass their peak; ONE boosts farm exports |
Gamestop gears up ahead of Xbox holiday cheer |
Panjiva Insights: Georgia should be on the mind for trade policy delivery |
Brexit Watch: Risk of weak end to talks as medical import surge looms |
DP-DHL, Expeditors find bigger is better in U.S. freight forwarding boom |
Phase 1 beats USMCA as Trump leaves dairy case in Biden’s lap |
Wednesday, December 09, 2020
Rubber glove shipments are off peak as costs rises during pandemic |
Panjiva Daily: Pandemic hangover for Brazilian autos; Hapag-Lloyd upgrades as carriers soar |
Stitch Fix delivers growth with tight supply chain management |
Big ports do better as shipping comes off the peak but not off the boil |
P&G, Colgate Palmolive take froth off soap imports after pandemic boom |
ONE boosts agricultural exports as FMC focuses on empty container strategy |
Tuesday, December 08, 2020
VW, Daimler face Brazilian challenges as COVID-19 parts recovery falters |
North America gas flows shifted by Chinese purchases, Mexican competition |
CSX, Norfolk Southern’s northern opportunity from Savannah rail expansion |
Hapag-Lloyd’s surprise maybe rates, not volumes as MSC leads U.S. freight |
Bunge leads bean peak season as Brazil faces La Niña, tougher China competition |
Panjiva Daily: Like the pandemic never happened; shifting tariff tides under Biden |
Monday, December 07, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Biden to keep China pressure as Trump’s deal nears monthly target |
Canada’s exports haven’t yet turned a corner as auto exports lose out to Mexico |
Brexit Watch: Maersk, MSC move away from Felixstowe once more |
Tariff tide changing under Biden as China duties do job but start to lose traction |
Vaccine, PPE sourcing likely behind U.S. medicine withdrawal from WTO supply chain pact |
Stay-at-home consumers, Chinese suppliers drive U.S. import surge |
Sunday, December 06, 2020
Logistics jobs back to pre-pandemic levels, ports still under pressure |
Life after the elections: Biden’s EU deal may be limited to steel, initially |
Life after the elections: Biden to keep pressure on China as phase 1 buying nears target |
Anemic services, booming consumers lead Trump’s trade metric upward |
Guess? cuts uncertainties, supply chain costs with simplified product line |
Friday, December 04, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Testing optimistic managers; Brexit’s costs for the autos industry |
Thursday, December 03, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Hapag-Lloyd’s winter pandemic plan; who needs British ports? |
Brexit Watch: Autos enumerate tariff trouble, steer supply chains out of EU |
Flex leads rise in Mexican ventilator exports as imports dip |
Vale’s China exposure rises, more to come if Australia-China relations worsen |
ONE Apus underscores dangers of international trade |
Warranted Optimism: Management sentiment vs. supply chain activity |
Wednesday, December 02, 2020
Panjiva Daily: The insecure industrial supply chain recovery; JM Smucker’s coffee rush |
Brexit Watch: Who needs British ports anyway? |
Railways run hotter as multimodal expansion accelerates in November |
Hapag-Lloyd plans for winter pandemic drag on Europe-U.S. trade |
Adient comfortable with car seat outlook, faces supply chain headwinds |
Utility supply chains power Mexico past the pandemic |
Tuesday, December 01, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Buried containers, Brexit stockpiling boost rates; Kuehne’s combo critique |
Driscoll’s may face fresh fruit scrutiny in November investigation |
JM Smucker’s coffee rush relies on supply chain stability |
Industrial import recovery insecure as ISM, shipment growth slow |
XV hits the spot as Subaru, Toyota auto shipments return to growth |
L’Occitane returns to pre-pandemic shipments, beauty sector looking better |
Monday, November 30, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s currency innovation bears fruit; Urban Outfitters shifts focus |
Kuehne critiques carrier-forwarder combo; K+N favors Hapag-Lloyd |
Buried containers, Brexit stockpiling – S&P Global Platts container update, November 2020 |
Tata Power, Adani may need new coal sources after Indonesia-China deal |
BRP rides out choppy supply chain recovery |
Setting the stage for 2021 – November 2020 in 10 reports |
Thursday, November 26, 2020
Asia-first global trade recovery remains fragile |
Deere expects farm equipment growth, supply chain a pandemic risk |
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Retail industry out of balance; the keys to emerging market vaccine distribution |
Mixed messages for phase 1 from low latency soybean trade data |
Trump’s currency-as-a-barrier innovation brings late tariffs for China, Vietnam |
U.S. export downturn continues despite phase 1 trade deal |
Urban Outfitters controls inventory, shifts to homewares |
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s Taiwan tester for Biden; liners face FMC review |
Emerging market vaccine distribution needs Indian airfreight, medical cooperation |
Trade war, pandemic and wildfires beset global wine supplies |
BJ’s achieves balance as retail sector shipping boom outstrips sales |
Hapag-Lloyd moves from market share to margins with Asia-to-Brazil rate hike |
Jaguar Land Rover defends SUV import lead from Porsche, Lamborghini |
Monday, November 23, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Biden’s solar supply chain duty dilemma; a bitter Indian surcharge pill to swallow |
ThyssenKrupp’s auto orders ascend, steel in short supply |
Brexit Watch: Cars, jet engine exports depend on deals yet to be done |
Life after the elections: protecting tech, pushing pork – relations with Taiwan |
Feds’ review widens as container-lines appear to prioritize empties over exports |
Roche sees testing time for COVID-19 diagnosis kit through 2021 |
Sunday, November 22, 2020
Barbie, The Child add force to Mattel’s imports late in the shipping season |
Welspun, Aurobindo face bitter pill as MSC takes bigger bite of Indian shipping |
Life after the elections: Bifacial about-face puts tariffs in way of Biden’s energy policy |
La-Z-Boy rebound squeezed by foam availability challenge |
Sonos sounds warning on congestion, container costs |
Friday, November 20, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Biden’s Asia trade deal options; Microsoft levels up |
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Casino closures during COVID-19 cut demand for gaming machines |
Bissell caught in LA container jam, more logistics diversification needed |
Microsoft Xbox levels up, higher score ahead |
Panjiva Basics: Pertamina, The Gap, Toyota and Huawei – Indonesian trade in a nutshell |
Life after the elections: Indonesia’s opportunity to deal with Biden, with conditions |
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Hapag-Lloyd’s pandemic problem; Maersk’s bounty brings alliance risks |
Hapag-Lloyd’s pandemic delay a reminder of the hazards for sailors |
Global trade returns to growth; EU may care more about Biden than Johnson |
Maersk’s bounty leaves industry alliances hostage to intervention |
Tyson Foods gains from Trump’s China deal, needs Biden for EU growth |
Tariff burden sharing over as U.S. import price inflation accelerates |
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Volkswagen revs up supply chain localization on USMCA, tariff risk reduction |
Panjiva Daily: FedEx, Dell pursue edgy strategy; retail inventory balloon risk rises |
Samsonite offsets grounded luggage demand with supply chain management |
Retail inventory balloon risk rises; Amazon forwarding shows homeware surge |
FedEx, Dell partner to provide web of edge datacenters and services |
Top Glove’s labor restrictions weigh on U.S. PPE imports |
Monday, November 16, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Fire risks raise battery supply chain questions; ZIM’s congestion-busting service |
Dairy farmers push Biden to milk trade deals for all they’re worth |
Tsingshan, Obsidian light up Indonesia’s nickel export strategy |
LG Chem, Samsung SDI face fire recalls as battery supplies charge ahead |
GM, Fiat Chrysler may be targets for ZIM’s new short-haul service |
Obama’s memoir drives boom for Penguin after publishing’s pandemic pause |
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Maersk, ONE lead South Korea shipping boom, HMM shifts focus |
Panjiva Daily: Pandemic worries meet meat demand; Indonesia’s RCEP opportunities |
Indonesia’s RCEP opportunities led by apparel, risks for autos |
Phillips 66, Marathon cut imports as hurricanes, pandemic roil oil shipping |
Pandemic worries meet meat demand jump with packing safety concerns |
Long Beach boom brings congestion, surcharges and shortages |
Friday, November 13, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Joe’s gentle jab at Boris; Honour Lane, Hecny the fastest forwarders |
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Cars parked, grains grow as U.S. rail activity runs slowly |
Life after the elections: quick deal, no deal or a small deal – U.K.-U.S. relations |
Brexit Watch: Chaos foretold amid logistics disruptions, key supplies downturn |
Honour Lane, Hecny have fastest forwarder growth, DB Schenker lags |
Roku rolls out Apple support as supply chain activity rocks |
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Biden’s EU tractor reboot; winners from the China-Australia trade war |
Panjiva Daily: Maersk, MSC lead the U.S. shipping boom; container shortage reaches farm goods |
Laredo expansion may cut into Monterrey’s airfreight growth |
Hapag-Lloyd’s farm service withdrawal follows grains, beans boom |
Amazon replaces DB Schenker as Maersk, MSC lead liner pack in October |
Glatfelter stays steady, may face Brexit risk in 2021 |
Vtech takes tariff, pandemic lessons but faces residual Trump risk |
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Tupperware imports pack a punch at stay-at-home demand soars |
Panjiva Daily: Biden’s build-back-better healthcare sourcing plan; Xi’s controllable supply chains |
Life after the elections: Biden could help Caterpillar, Deere with EU reboot |
Antofagasta, Codelco have copper opportunity in Australia-China trade spat |
Flowserve awaits 2021 recovery, rationalizes supply chain with China focus |
COVID-busting, consumer demand drive record high for U.S. shipping |
Monday, November 09, 2020
Panjiva Daily: The Trump scorched earth China scenario; Thailand loses GSP tariff status |
Brandix COVID-19 investigation raises supply chain questions for PVH, H&M |
Toyota, Subaru back to pre-pandemic levels as U.S. auto sales recover |
Life after the elections: Biden’s build back better healthcare supply chain |
Xi’s controllable supply chain plan emerges amid export boom, U.S. upheaval |
Fiskars growth trimmed after pandemic-linked import surge in Q3 |
Sunday, November 08, 2020
Samsung, Honda face higher costs as Thailand loses preferential tariff status |
Life after the elections: scorched earth or lasting legacy, relations with China |
Thursday, November 05, 2020
Trane sets supply chain shift in motion, avoids constraints in Q3 |
PCM, Mitsubishi Imaging costs could rise as thermal paper imports face audit |
Crest of the wave – S&P Global Platts container update, October 2020 |
Sunday, November 01, 2020
Life after the elections: 5 trade issues to watch to inauguration and beyond |
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Comparing candidates, broken cycles – October 2020 in 10 reports |
Friday, October 30, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Maersk’s Miami surcharge vice; medical supply chains slowing in October |
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Panjiva Daily: UPS, C.H. Robinson deliver surprises; diggers still in a hole |
SEB brews up a recovery with Chinese cookware, Columbian backup |
Convatec’s diabetes growth in Q3 may be reversing in October |
Ninebot rides the pandemic mobility wave as supply chain activity surges |
Seiko Epson, Honda squeezed by Maersk’s Miami surcharge vice |
Thule racks up growth, reconnects with China during the pandemic |
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Retail shipping accelerates in October; out of the woods, still in the dark |
Illinois Tool Works latches onto fastener growth after Q3 downturn |
U.S. trade remains depressed as exports struggle outside farm goods |
Diggers still in a hole, Caterpillar and Komatsu hope for a recovery |
UPS, C.H. Robinson beat estimates after late surge in shipping volumes |
Unhappy Halloween ahead with rise of pandemic measures, clown outfit imports |
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Biden’s battery boost, Trump’s farm sales success and Mattel’s Barbie bounce |
Taiwan on the post-election agenda whatever the result as Trump’s arms sales surge |
Off-key performance from Guitar Center, Yamaha during pandemic |
Steve Madden gets kicked by store closures, logistics congestion |
Accelerating retail shipping surge in October carries risk of inventory overbuild |
Out of the woods but still in the dark – earnings guidance during the pandemic |
Monday, October 26, 2020
Orient Overseas wins Red Bull as container line competes for market share |
Biden’s battery bet may boost domestic lithium, rare earth sourcing |
Aeroedge titanium cut shows unintended consequences of subsidy action |
Trump touts on-track China farm sales, but other products have gone off-road |
Mattel boosted by Barbie, has a bad feeling about meeting demand surge |
Friday, October 23, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Cannibals, parked cars and oil disruption; Logitech, iRobot turn up the volume |
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Halliburton’s cannibals, Petrobras’s parked cars – the COVID-19 energy hangover |
Panjiva Daily: Peloton’s uphill delivery struggle; the bow wave of COVID-19 recovery hopes |
Amphenol hooks up growth surprise as Q3 supply chain activity recovers |
Expeditors, Flexport face Seattle disruptions despite port’s demand drop |
Logitech’s supply chain bet pays off as sales smash estimates |
iRobot sales, shipping surge on stay-clean-at-home demand |
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Panjiva Daily: TikTok, COVID-19 and the unhappy toy season; finding UPS’s Vietnamese targets |
Shipbuilding continues to sink with orders at 32-year low |
Borusan Mannesmann gets tariff refund, still faces oil price weakened pipe demand |
True Religion returns even as consumers have little faith in denim |
Peloton slips a gear on recall, supply chain delivery challenges |
Panjiva Insights: The bow wave of recovery hopes |
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Unhappy holidays for toymakers as TikTok, COVID-19 change success criteria |
Panjiva Daily: Microsoft’s supply chain route to console war win; C.H. Robinson’s surcharge warning |
Tesla reorients delivery pattern as U.S. loses out on lithium supplies |
European Union struggles to keep pace with global trade recovery |
UPS’s Vietnam expansion could target Longi Solar, Nintendo as new clients |
K+N takes a more conservative Q4 view than DSV-Panalpina, DP-DHL |
Monday, October 19, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Best Buy slows, H&M grows as retail recovery accelerates |
Semiconductor export controls in China, U.S. yet to chip away at supplies |
Brexit Watch: Johnson’s Australia-style deal raises food import risks |
ONE cuts shipping services, suggesting demand wave will break |
C.H. Robinson warns on port surcharges as shipping soars |
Microsoft sees supply chain success as key to winning the 2020 console war |
Sunday, October 18, 2020
Bunge leads Brazilian soybean bounce ahead of container shortage |
Americans load up on ammunition ahead of the elections |
Delta Apparel ramps up production but H&M leads the activewear recovery |
Best Buy cuts imports as electrical store sector sales slow |
Getinge gets growth from ventilators, other products lose out to pandemic |
Friday, October 16, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Testing Trump’s onshoring strategy; HMM helps consumer electronics surge |
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Hapag-Lloyd upgrades as Brazil, U.S. operations continue to struggle |
Panjiva Daily: Hapag-Lloyd’s cool technology; EU’s Trump-baiting carbon tax |
Cue lines up test kit supplies, meeting Trump’s onshoring aims |
Days of burden sharing are gone as import price inflation returns |
Nissan, GM may face supply chain challenges as U.S. auto sales recover |
HMM rolls out extra service to support Samsung, LG demand surge |
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Maersk joins the upgrade fleet; Trump casts another cloud over solar |
Panama Canal misses out on Asia-U.S. trade recovery bonanza |
Daimler, Deere could face Trump-baiting EU carbon border tax |
5G rollout has yet to accelerate as equipment imports languish |
Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk boost tech investments as reefer handling cools |
ASML avoids COVID-19, regulatory disruptions as shipments rise |
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Panjiva Daily: DSV Panalpina, DP-DHL’s sunny outlook; Brexit summit for medical supplies |
Manitou set to give wind powered shipping a lift |
Volkswagen finds sea shipping a better way after rail disruptions |
POSCO diversifies its customer base as autos recovery proves anemic |
Maersk joins the fleet of upgrades after shipping swells in September |
New Trump move casts another cloud over solar panel supply chains |
Monday, October 12, 2020
DSV Panalpina, DP-DHL upgrade outlooks as forwarders look forward to a strong Q4 |
Brexit Watch: Strides Pharma, Cipla step in but can’t offset pre-Brexit drug shortfall |
Panjiva Daily: Post-pandemic retail pull-forward; Amazon the source of Matson’s flood |
Cambodia-China trade deal could complicate U.S. supply chains |
AMAG, Constellium avoid aluminum action, shipments still in decline |
Vale prioritizes China for short-term shipments, long-term investment |
Sunday, October 11, 2020
Retail pull-forward drives surge in electronics, appliance import surge |
LT Foods leads Indian rice boom as U.S. demand boils over |
OEC, Flexport face test as congestion hurts LA, Long Beach port reliability |
Amazon the source of Matson’s Q3 China shipping flood |
Pandemic planning versus panicking – September’s shipping surge |
Friday, October 09, 2020
Panjiva Daily: COVID treatment costs versus strategy; Levi’s supply channel changes |
Thursday, October 08, 2020
Panjiva Insights – Adopting LogTech in a post-pandemic, cyber-insecure world |
Cargotec and Konecranes announce merger to chase cost savings |
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s trade tools assessed; COVID-19’s impact on apparel supply trends |
Costco may be caught in the cold as outdoor dining heats up |
Levi Strauss helped by supply channel change as denim struggled in Q3 |
Grassley’s COVID tariff move may complicate Trump’s onshoring strategy |
Wednesday, October 07, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s pre-election trade scorecard; auto insurance supply chain risks |
Subaru loses U.S. drive as Japan’s automakers skid in September |
BMW, Ford contribute to Canada’s volatility as recovery proves tough |
Tanks not suits, throws not sweaters – Q3’20 apparel scorecard |
Deficits and tariffs – assessing Trump’s trade tools ahead of the election |
Tuesday, October 06, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Barbie bet meets COVID chaos; La Nina adds to Starbucks’ challenges |
Mission not yet accomplished as Trump-Xi deal falls short of target |
Tough last scorecard for Trump as deficit peaks, exports wane |
Critical moment for Trump’s critical minerals strategy as imports slide |
Mission Produce readies for growth as avocado exports shrink |
Supply chain disruptions among risks to low auto insurance claims costs |
Monday, October 05, 2020
Mattel’s Barbie bet faces supply chain uncertainty, slowing industry imports |
No tarnish from Golden Week – S&P Global Platts container update, September 2020 |
La Nina, COVID-19 roil coffee supply chains as Starbucks cuts back |
Logistics jobs still be pre-pandemic level, congestion risks rising |
Panjiva Daily: COVID-19, elections, onshoring and Brexit battles – Q4’20 Outlook special |
Trump’s Vietnamese timber tariffs could cut furniture shipping |
Friday, October 02, 2020
Dealing with the surge, preparing for the future – September 2020 in 10 reports |
Panjiva Daily: Trump set to pursue Vietnam; the rise of forced labor actions |
Q4 2020 Outlook: Endings and beginnings |
Thursday, October 01, 2020
JBS, Cargill may lose market share as British beef returns to U.S. stores |
Panjiva Daily: Trump vs. Biden – jobs and geopolitics, not trade, the key to trade policy |
CMA CGM cyberattack comes during peak season for retailers |
Maersk, DP-DHL show long and short routes to cutting CO2 emissions |
U.S. forced labor actions expanded to include palm oil imports |
Netgear, TP-Link at risk as Vietnam finally becomes a target for Trump |
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
HP and Netgear router traffic may slow with IP case looming |
Maersk, MSC lead shipping as Houston looks for liftoff |
Weak industrial export activity treads on Trump’s trade deficit success |
Panjiva Basics: Trade policy has little to do with trade – U.S. election preview |
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Panjiva Daily: DHL could harvest Apple’s growth; renewables tailwind for Siemens Energy |
Monday, September 28, 2020
Kawasaki has heavy lifting to do, Yaskawa passes pandemic trough |
Shipbuilders adrift as exports fall, orders remain elusive |
Apple, Lenovo may fill DHL’s expanded Mexican jet service in peak season |
Siemens Energy activity spins up as renewables tailwind continues |
Scholastic learns lessons from COVID-19, restructures sales channels |
Panjiva Daily: Pandemic recovery accelerates; Electrolux’s COVID recovery complete |
Sunday, September 27, 2020
Global trade better, but not fully recovered, after COVID-19 lockdowns |
Volkswagen may run into Mexican supply chain issues after rail blockade |
Electrolux blows past COVID-19 as imports of fridges heat up |
Pemex keeps crude flowing as domestic distillate demand remains depressed |
Friday, September 25, 2020
Pandemic recovery accelerates with U.S. imports up by a fifth in September |
Panjiva Daily: Tesla tackles Trump’s tariffs; Chevron shows the way out of Venezuelan oil |
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Tesla plots new route for tariff relief; LCI, Ford back away from China |
Panjiva Daily: Tesla powers up battery supply chain; Fiat, Tupy face trade deal disappointment |
Panjiva Insights: Waiting for Joe – EU trade policy and prospects |
Truck trade has Pharr to go in post-lockdown recovery |
TSMC support comes as U.S. proves weak link in demand for Taiwanese chips |
Chevron shows way ahead as Reliance faces end of Venezuela sourcing |
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Maersk manages Transpacific surge; labor constraints for PPE supplies |
Steelcase builds imports faster than Ikea, but may need to take stock of inventories |
Fiat Chrysler, Tupy may lose out if France blocks EU-Brazil trade deal |
Tougher Xinjiang sanctions require radical supply chain transparency upgrade |
Tesla set to overhaul EV battery supply chains, eventually |
CMA CGM, Cosco grow as Seattle-Tacoma finds blank sailings rule the waves |
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Panjiva Daily: FedEx’s freight fightback; trade war tariffs two years on |
EU looks inward for pandemic recovery as localization strategies go global |
Labor practice constraint yet to hurt U.S. glove supplies in COVID-19 fight |
Brexit Watch: No deal, troubled IT raise challenges for Maersk, MSC at Felixstowe |
Maersk boosts capacity as 2M volumes hit record on U.S.-inbound lanes |
Cracker Barrel avoids supply disruptions, sticks to China sourcing |
Monday, September 21, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Stay-at-home helps Microsoft, Lovesac; Walgreens sticks with China |
JBS, WH Group lead phase 1 farm export surge |
Ikea, Target load up on furniture as retail sales growth stalls |
FedEx’s freight fightback needs disintermediation, China share to succeed |
Brexit Watch: Customs expedience now jeopardizes trade deals later |
Komatsu, Weir still feeling tariff burn two years after trade war’s first shot |
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Peloton rides the stay-at-home exercise wave |
Vietnam pivots to PPE production; Walgreens remains focused on China |
Microsoft Xbox hits power-up in pandemic console wars |
Lovesac bags discounts, diversifies sourcing |
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Resilience, efficiency and environment – IoT and digital set to transform logistics |
LVMH sacrifices Tiffany deal in Franco-American tariff tiff |
Brexit Watch: Ford, BMW have a stake in quick-and-dirty CPTPP deal |
Panjiva Daily: Schenker shifts gears as forwarders fly; retailers’ slow walk to school sales |
Panjiva Daily: Special Report – Transforming logistics with IoT and digital investments |
Wednesday, September 09, 2020
Panjiva Insights: Shaping a resilient future for Asian supply chains |
Panjiva Daily: Shipping record set in wake of COVID-19; medical test kit supplies slip |
Thai Union lines up Red Lobster to net a wider downstream supply chain |
Brexit Watch: No-deal risk rises; Gap, Primark may have choices to make |
Schenker shifts gears, pursues Damco users after August slowdown in volumes |
Genesco’s prolonged back-to-school season trips footwear imports |
Tuesday, September 08, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Truck rate troubles as demand surges; three deals, three problems for econo-Brexit |
Abbott, Roche test kit shipments slip as COVID-19 medical supplies shrink |
New York cheered by booze imports as U.S. port activity reaches record high |
Ericsson, Samsung may have trade policy edge over Nokia in 5G |
Record container shipping in August as post-COVID consumer surge continues |
GM, Volvo buck falling foreign vehicle import trend with China shipments |
Monday, September 07, 2020
PC surge boosts China trade; phase 1 purchases still failing to make a difference |
Sunday, September 06, 2020
China, U.S. set out competing semiconductor plans as chip needs surge |
Suzano’s green bond follows surge in pandemic pulp demand |
Fonterra, O&K face doubled trucking rates as logistics jobs lag demand |
Brexit Watch: Three deals, three problems as economic Brexit approaches |
Friday, September 04, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s crumbling trade targets; Philips’ ventilator blow |
Thursday, September 03, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Decoding Maersk’s Damco move; Trump triggers tariffs ahead of elections |
Trump’s trade targets crumble with China’s purchases behind schedule |
Lego’s supply chain agility helps build sales during pandemic |
Philips suffers a blow as ventilator stockpiling ends |
Truck strike may cool growth in Nestle, Vina Concha exports from Chile |
Miele may have Whirlpool in a spin as washer review resumes |
Wednesday, September 02, 2020
Panjiva Daily: COVID-19 recovery brings renewed troubles for forwarders, autos and retail |
Trump picks a new trade fight to harvest fruit farmers’ votes |
Ternium, ArcelorMittal face steel restrictions during Trump’s re-election campaign |
Maersk ditches Damco, raising Ceva questions for CMA CGM |
Making hay while the sun shines – S&P Global Platts container update, August 2020 |
Keeping the trade peace, recovering from COVID-19 – August 2020 in 10 reports |
Panjiva Insights: The fallout from COVID-19 and long-term strategy plans |
Tuesday, September 01, 2020
U.S. trade downturn hits 16th month; improvements indicated ahead |
Monday, August 31, 2020
Urban Outfitters achieves the nearly impossible in post-COVID supply chain control |
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
GM, Autoliv face higher trucking costs during COVID-19 recovery |
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s China trade policy for 2021, and beyond; Foxconn’s Mexican plans |
Expeditors, C.H. Robinson rebound in Seattle challenged by Union Pacific surcharge |
Best Buy faces constraints, supply chain starting to improve |
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Canada-U.S. wood dispute lumbers on through broken WTO process |
Trump’s second term plan targets tax breaks rather than tariffs in trade policy |
Panjiva Daily: The art of the pre-election pico-deal; 10-month U.S. import losing streak ends |
ZIM Shipping plans IPO as margins recover, Transpacific trade surges in Q3 |
Foxconn could react to Trump’s trade pressure with Mexican investments |
Global trade downturn slowed in June, Q3 shows signs of recovery |
Monday, August 24, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Ugly outlook for beauty supply chains; digging deep for construction parts |
Smokers, babies could be winners from Lighthizer’s WTO proposal |
Deere downbeat on farmers’ fluid feelings about trade policy |
Ten month losing streak in U.S. imports ends in wake of trade war, COVID-19 |
MSC delivers the opposite of blanking as Maersk hits China-U.S. record |
The art of the pico deal: Trump trades lobsters for lighters in pre-election deal |
Sunday, August 23, 2020
China’s shipyards lose out to South Korea’s as orders remain weak |
Estée Lauder presents ugly outlook after COVID-19 demand disruption |
Samsung SDI, LG Chem’s lithium demand rises as SQM turns on the taps |
Komatsu digs deep for construction equipment parts |
LG, Qisda may pay for priority as CMA CGM battles for profitability |
Friday, August 21, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Conflicting views on autos recovery post-COVID; Ventilator flows slowing |
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Wallenius Wilhelmsen takes cautious stance to Q3 as autos shipping slides |
Panjiva Daily: Laptop supply chains power up; pandemic concerns reach Hong Kong food imports |
Target, Samsonite could be wooed by China’s new trade support scheme |
Hindalco sees auto aluminum supplies near pre-COVID levels |
Global trade on the mend as export decline slows to 10% in June |
Flow of ventilators switches to Mexico as U.S. stockpile stabilizes |
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Japanese trade remains depressed; medical diplomacy ongoing |
Maersk turns a corner on the road to post-pandemic normality in H1’21 |
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
COVID concerns reach Hong Kong poultry imports; dims prospects for Aurora |
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s phase 1 fig leaf; Cosco, CMA CGM face Chinese antitrust review |
Lenovo, Dell lead laptop supply surge as COVID-19 overshadows school year |
Diageo swoops in for Aviation Gin after Beefeater eats its lunch |
Monday, August 17, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Hapag-Lloyd lags Maersk in slow July; retail supply chain winners and losers |
Cosco, CMA CGM face antitrust review as rates surge, China-LA volume hits record |
Kuraray sees COVID-19 drag into 2021 as PVA shipments surge |
Dorel, Dynacraft ride COVID-19 demand for bicycles; supply chains still tight |
Tomy joins Hasbro, Mattel with cuts after imports fail to transform into sales |
Trump delays phase 1 reckoning, beans and pork provide a fig leaf |
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Hapag-Lloyd lags Maersk, Cosco Shipping in slow start to Q3 |
Qurate sticks with China through tariffs, pandemic |
Target backs backpacks as back-to-school clothing imports slide |
Stein Mart stumbles as U.S. retail sales, appliance imports recover in July |
Leoni leans towards the cautious as COVID-19 slashes cable demand |
Friday, August 14, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Flexport, Amazon unbowed by COVID-19; Super Micro well served by Taiwan |
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Super Micro finds Taiwan serves it better than China as demand grows |
Flexport, Amazon unbowed by COVID-19 as peak season surge starts |
Panjiva Daily: Ports pay the price for blank sailings; Nautilus wins supply race during COVID-19 |
Trump’s tariff cudgel proves effective, may be wielded once more if phase 1 fails |
Slow rolling for truck tire review as currency manipulation investigated |
China tariff burden sharing slows as plastics prices rise, telecoms stabilize |
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Record start to peak season; Trump’s medical onshoring strategy emerges |
Brother, Canon lose tariff labels as last leniency rulings issued |
Marathon, Valero raise U.S. crude imports in July as COVID-19 disrupts flows |
Brexit Watch: Standby for action as next round of talks beckons |
Nautilus navigates COVID-19 demand spike, trade war with flexible supply chain |
Hapag-Lloyd, ONE blanks drag as Norfolk lags, LA-Long Beach lead in July |
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Spotlight back on Trump’s trade policies on China, reshoring and Canada |
Wolverine World Wide sales slide, pursues dual China-Vietnam strategy |
BMW, Volvo imports improve as U.S. car shipments remain weak |
Trump sets medical onshoring in motion after supplies drop in July |
Nintendo switched on, Funko fails to pop as toy peak season starts slowly |
Peak season surge, China supplies lead COVID-19 recovery in U.S. trade |
Monday, August 10, 2020
Trump reimposes aluminum tariffs that could help Rusal, Norsk Hydro |
Whirlpool may need to watch out as Trump recommits to tariff-led trade policy |
Wednesday, August 05, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Expeditors’ top tier Q2; Diageo’s tequila shot helps pandemic hangover |
China, EU trade deficits under control, Trump may search for new enemies |
Trump’s trade deal on the line as China buys too little, too late |
JM Smucker slurps up Brazilian coffee during COVID-19; Starbucks shipments sink |
Tuesday, August 04, 2020
China first for Vale as new export facility is planned |
Panjiva Daily: Kansas City deal coming down the track; Komatsu digs in for COVID-19 recovery |
CIMC, Schneider National may have to carry higher costs after dumping case |
Expeditors’ top tier Q2 followed by tough start to Q3 |
Diageo gets a shot in the arm from tequila; COVID-19 not good for Guinness |
OptimISM returns to trade outlook as COVID-19 slowdown weakens |
Monday, August 03, 2020
Konica Minolta jams during COVID-19 while diversifying sourcing during trade war |
Panjiva Daily: COVID-19 second wave expected to wash over corporate performance |
Mitsui E&S, Tsuneishi deal comes as shipyard exports reach worst since 2008 |
Komatsu expects slow reconstruction of demand after COVID-19 |
Panasonic assumes no new COVID-19 outbreak as solar beats Tesla |
Kansas City Southern may face bid as autos weigh on recovery |
Sanctions, bankruptcies and election strategies – July 2020 in 10 reports |
Sunday, August 02, 2020
Continental adapts to USMCA, balances safety and reopening post COVID-19 |
BNSF’s redeployment comes as Vietnam-to-LA shipments surge |
DSV Panalpina’s “gradual improvement” yet to arrive after Q2 success |
Jakks suffers Halloween scare, WowWee may do-do-do better with Baby Shark |
Makita expects demand to power ahead in COVID-19 second wave |
Friday, July 31, 2020
Panjiva Daily: LG Electronics, Dell diverge as Q3 begins; Japan’s automakers still in tough times |
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Nissan, Honda have long road to recovery after pandemic |
Panjiva Daily: C.H. Robinson’s tough quarter; tracking Under Armour’s performance |
LG Electronics takes cautious stance toward COVID-19 recovery |
UPS joins list of logistics street-beaters in wake of COVID-19 |
Dell slows PC supplies after overclocking Q2, HP Inc. boots up |
Back to the old normal – S&P Global Platts container update, July 2020 |
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Medical supply chains switch into reverse; Maersk goes with the Flow |
Food fight ahead over USMCA disagreements on seasonal produce |
Pemex gasoline demand drops in Q2, COVID-19 recovery yet to arrive |
China’s cereal buying doesn’t offset EU liquor tariffs as U.S. trade falls |
Under Armour faces SEC investigation, COVID-19 demand clouds |
C.H. Robinson may have tough start to Q3 after volumes slip in Q2 |
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Green shoots of COVID-19 recovery; Hasbro, Mattel diverge on supply performance |
Panjiva Insights: A slice of the sun – prospects for behind-the-meter solar power |
Maersk Flow moves platform battle forward, may have limited synergies |
Trump, Biden look to bolster drug supplies as shipments slow in July |
Medical supply sourcing slowdown gives impetus to reshoring strategy |
Autos export sentiment leads Germany to recovery in July |
Monday, July 27, 2020
Global trade crunch might have reached worst point in May |
Hasbro, Mattel diverge as supply chain resilience proves key during COVID-19 |
Ford’s Hermosillo plant derailed by protests; COVID-19 recovery going slowly |
Sunday, July 26, 2020
Green shoots of COVID-19 trade recovery as autos reverse 16 month downturn |
Tackling Gazprom matters more than China relations for U.S. LNG exporters |
Friday, July 24, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Ascena Retail joins the COVID-19 Chapter 11 list; Tesla’s lessons to learn |
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Maersk’s carbon transformation potential; Texas Instruments’ chip slowdown |
Ascena Retail joins roster of troubled retailers after COVID-19, tariffs |
Pentair warns of COVID-19 supply chain disruptions after sales slip |
COVID-19 causes container complications; Maersk’s reefer handling grows |
Evergreen growth returns to SeaTac as bridge repairs add to COVID-19 woes |
Tesla has lessons to learn from Volvo, cheaper lithium as manufacturing goes global |
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Tracking Xinjiang sanctions’ impact on supply chains; K+N’s COVID-19 downturn |
Maersk has market share growth potential from Transform to Net Zero |
iRobot on track for recovery, still has to steer round tariff threat |
Texas Instruments sees semiconductor slowdown; global shipments remain robust |
Briggs & Stratton pays price for COVID-19 as small engine shipments sputter |
Nidec still attracted to electric autos after temporary dip in permanent magnets |
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Forced labor in medical glove supply chains; COVID-19 test kit shortage emerging |
Koch, Eurochem may be exposed to new fertilizer dumping probe |
Ternium, Metal One have USMCA choice to make as Mexico turns on charm |
Target may be next in the crosshairs after Charleston bags Walmart |
Lenovo, Alstom face supply chain choices after Xinjiang Entity List ruling |
K+N’s COVID-19 downturn continues as pharma handling slips on some routes |
Monday, July 20, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Ceva’s platform launch helps reverse decline; U.S. farm exports to China soar |
JBS, Cargill have chance to rebuild Australian beef exports to U.S. |
FedEx invests in robots, provides new source of growth for Yaskawa |
Abbott Labs shipments surge as COVID-19 brings testing times |
Japan’s medical supply shipments robust even as trade collapse continues |
Top Glove faces forced labor charges as shipments surge in response to COVID-19 |
Sunday, July 19, 2020
Ceva platform launch provides catch-up capabilities |
Solar surge follows decade of tariff, support uncertainty |
Anglo American’s Colombian COVID-19 challenges cut coal exports |
Wartsila orders scrubbed by fuel spreads, energy business powers down |
JBS, Tyson bank pork sales to China but support may be withdrawn |
Friday, July 17, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Retail recovery looking patchy; Dell rings the back to school bell |
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s Hong Kong tariff move; Hapag-Lloyd’s profit surge |
Global trade troughs in May as EU slump accelerates, China recovers |
Dell rings the bell as back-to-school buying seen focused on laptops over shoes |
Retailers have tough peak season choices with COVID-19 recovery, trade war risks |
Panjiva Insights: COVID-22 and trade war 2.0, the outlook for Q3 and beyond |
Brexit Watch: Hoping for a deal, preparing for the worst |
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Freight forwarders face Flexport, COVID-19 challenges; aluminum tariffs loom |
Ford not seeking to buck USMCA with Bronco set for Mexican production |
Ninebot Segway changes direction as weak demand, tariffs weigh |
Burden sharing in retreat after 20 months of China price deflation |
Netgear, Vtech may face Trump’s Hong Kong tariffs; gold shipments glitter |
Hapag-Lloyd’s profits surge as discipline offsets COVID-19 effect |
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Silicon metal dumping case returns as petitions spike in June |
Norsk Hydro, Rio Tinto lose market share as Canadian aluminum shipments surge |
Flexport, Amazon keep pressure on freight forwarders during tough Q2 |
Siemens Healthineers outsources to DP-DHL as medical technology trade surges |
Two days help China trade recovery, phase one delivery still at risk |
Panjiva Daily: Uniqlo, Muji and the challenges of COVID-19 for retail supply chains |
Monday, July 13, 2020
Muji devastated by COVID-19, plastic tableware proves robust |
Brazilian wood boosts Houston as U.S. ports struggle to recover |
Panjiva Daily: DP-DHL beats peers, cuts costs; Biden’s healthcare supply chain plans |
Bike helmets avoid tariffs, cross small COVID-19 dip |
Fast Retailing expects slow recovery from COVID-19 |
LVMH may need price hikes, Italy shift as digital tariff war gets underway |
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Biden’s supply chain strategy has implications for Baxter, Reckitt Benckiser |
Brooks Brothers bankruptcy comes as COVID-19 slashes sector shipments |
Deutsche Post DHL improves earnings, beats peers, still cutting costs |
Drugs, tractors slow the summer slide in U.S. imports |
Thermometers, solar panel imports heat up as tariffs become business-as-usual |
Wednesday, July 08, 2020
Panjiva Daily: C.H. Robinson provides new routes to PPE; Q3’20 trade policy brush fires |
Tuesday, July 07, 2020
USMCA Watch: New test for Traton, Navistar as Shacman moves to Mexico |
Volvo drives on as U.S. car, light truck sales suffer COVID-19 hangover |
Nestle’s Mexican exports sour as COVID-19 coffee contraction continues |
Panjiva Daily: Tough on China redux – Trump vs Biden and Q3 supply chain choices |
C.H. Robinson innovates as COVID-19 PPE needs surge once more |
Monday, July 06, 2020
Acuity turns on Mexican lighting supplies as Alpan switches away from China |
Sunday, July 05, 2020
Q3 2020 Outlook: Into the great unknowns (3) – Brush fires in global trade policy |
Bobcat hopes to rebuild with U.S. construction industry |
Q3 2020 Outlook: Heading into the great unknowns (2) – Tough on China redux |
Friday, July 03, 2020
Canadian exports slide as no-one escapes the global trade downturn |
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s phase 1 ammunition; USMCA, COVID-19 bring tough choices for automakers |
Logistics employment rises, but only one-in-four COVID-19 job losses are back |
Thursday, July 02, 2020
Panjiva Daily: The 4 stages of COVID-19; FedEx wins, and loses but has no guidance |
Panjiva Insights: COVID-19’s impact on supply chain credit risk |
Trump’s phase 1 ammunition builds as Chinese purchases rise, but not by enough |
COVID-19 cuts and trade war worries – June 2020 in 10 reports |
USMCA Watch: Tough choices for Nissan, Mazda after COVID-19 |
Wednesday, July 01, 2020
Export sentiment improving, but still not out of COVID-19 woods |
FedEx’s wins and loses from COVID-19; seaborne shipping downturn slows |
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
La-Z-Boy’s strength sapped by COVID-19 while active in supply chain shift |
JBS, Marfrig face China’s widening COVID-19 farm good restrictions |
Q3 2020 Outlook: Heading into the great unknowns (1) – The 4 Stages of COVID-19 |
Technology managers turn to the cloud as hardware supplies evaporate |
Panjiva Daily: COVID-19’s cost in Texas and Mexico; camera shipments snap |
Monday, June 29, 2020
Ready to ride the recovery wave – S&P Global Platts Container Update, June 2020 |
Better not the same as good as autos explain business sentiment improvement |
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Samsung and Canon in same frame as Olympus as camera shipments slow |
Counting the Texan COVID-19 cost for supply chains as spread continues |
Autos drive Mexico’s trade collapse, Kia proves to be an outlier |
Friday, June 26, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Electrolux, Siemens powering up as COVID closures end |
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Medical supply chains mostly fixed; DSV Panalpina’s upgrade helped by Vestas |
Finding the floor for global trade activity in wake of COVID-19 |
Polaris, Denso hit the skids as Mexican autos status suffers during COVID-19 |
Siemens, Vestas already winning as U.S. considers bulk power equipment needs |
Phase 1 trade deal helps trim, but can’t stop, slump in U.S. exports in May |
Electrolux, Miele shrug off COVID-19 as appliances power up in June |
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Panjiva Daily: COVID-19 trade drag may be waning; Adidas keep to support pledge |
Mexican earthquake complicates COVID-19 recovery sourcing challenges |
Kansas City Southern’s volumes drop as Mexican autos hit the buffers |
Medical supply chains fixed for masks, drugs but ventilator shipments fall |
Grey Goose, Jungheinrich face tariff lift in U.S.-EU aerospace spat |
DSV Panalpina joins Maersk in less gloomy view, saved by Vestas, Estee Lauder |
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s progress in China trade deal; beauty products face ugly digital tax spat |
FedEx delay, writedown highlights COVID-19 challenges in logistics |
Sappi, Navigator gain as Canadian paper shipments crumple under tariff pressure |
Shell, Sempra LNG shipments deflate as Mexican demand drops |
Adidas continues Cambodia purchasing growth; manufacturers call for wage cut |
COVID-19’s drag waning as U.S. capital goods, consumer staples imports rise |
Monday, June 22, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Clean tech supply chains versus COVID-19; Maersk gets less gloomy |
Shipyards adrift as orders lose steam in face of COVID-19 |
LVMH, L’Oreal beauty products to pay the price as digital services spat turns ugly |
TCL’s technology boost may help to alleviate television market downturn |
Tyson, JBS lead wave of U.S. farm exports to China that could be throttled back |
Iran, Mexico, oil and the sourcing of Venezuela’s food |
Sunday, June 21, 2020
Brexit Watch: Peel Ports, DP World do better as post-Brexit services get underway |
Trump pulls soldiers from Germany as arms exports dip |
Tesla, GM have to balance long term sourcing, short-term supply needs |
East Group, First Solar show coronavirus can’t eclipse solar power’s surge |
Maersk’s India operations worsen but COVID-19 gloom becomes less gloomy |
Thursday, June 18, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Hapag-Lloyd’s arbitrary charge; COVID-19, supply chains and credit risk analysis |
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Walmart, Adidas tackle retail downturn; the ripple effect from Honda’s cyber attack |
Panjiva Basics: Momentum reversal – analyzing COVID-19 credit risk with supply chain data |
USMCA may join COVID-19, OPEC as complications for Pemex |
Britain isn’t Europe’s only problem as trade activity dives |
COVID-19 chip demand may be waning as Hon Hai, Sanmina slash Mexican shipments |
Hapag-Lloyd’s arbitrary charge could boost costs for Hyundai, Syngenta in Brazil |
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Panjiva Daily: GM, Ford get back into gear after COVID-19; stretched PPE suppliers |
Guess has to work out how to tackle customer traffic, China sourcing challenges |
Walmart, Adidas follow apparel retail sales slump with reduced imports |
China’s Belt-and-Road faces chill wind from trade subsidy investigations |
Volkswagen’s COVID-19 recovery in Mexico on hold |
Honda’s cyber attack may ripple through supply chain to ZF, BorgWarner |
Monday, June 15, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Orient Overseas heads east after going south; health versus production in Mexico |
GM, Ford restart U.S. production as foreign competitors’ shipments wane |
Brexit Watch: New momentum, old problems with 18 weeks to go |
PlayStation 5 set to boost console supply chain after years of decline |
Top Glove stretched, U.S. COVID-19 PPE shipments lose out |
COVID-19 service volatility, trade war drives problems for ports |
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Treasury’s tariff tax income drops, import price deflation from China eases |
Regal Beloit, Nidec face disruptions as supplier deals with COVID-19 controversy |
Orient Overseas heads to the east coast after U.S. volumes head south |
Plywood tariff evasion evidence plentiful, finding bad actors a challenge |
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Panjiva Daily: UPS beats the pack as COVID-19 weighs; ABB’s transformer probe uncertainty |
Panjiva Insights: The future for global supply chains and U.S. reshoring |
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Britax, Dorel receive relief from tariffs as government focuses on safety |
Slow semiconductors in the Philippines drives bottom three performance in Asia |
ABB, Schneider face prolonged uncertainty in transformer national security probe |
Copper, zinc export surge leads AMLO to call time on missing tax payments |
UPS beats the pack, Ceva continues to suffer as COVID-19 weighs on forwarders |
Panjiva Daily: Freight falls by a fifth in May; the impact of COVID-19 on Bangladeshi apparel |
Tuesday, June 09, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Uniform regulations, divergent methods; the “lobster king” and the elections |
PVH, H&M cut imports as Bangladeshi apparel faces COVID-19 demand drop |
Panasonic, Samsung battery supply chains assaulted by COVID-19 |
Grimaldi’s grim view confirmed by two-thirds fall in U.S. vehicle imports in May |
Navistar navigates bumpy restart after COVID-19 after prior supply chain lessons |
Freight falls by a fifth as COVID-19 weighs on U.S. demand in May |
Monday, June 08, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Nissan’s Brexit, Tesla problems; Ericsson dials 5G for growth, Huawei limited |
CMA CGM expects tougher Q2, India and Europe contribute to woes |
COVID-19 disrupts Brazilian commodity exports in a variety of ways |
All hail the lobster king! A new model for pre-election policy or just shifting blame? |
China’s chips, medical supply exports jump but purchases from U.S. still down |
USMCA Watch: Honda, Autoliv may have work to do as uniform regulations arrive |
Sunday, June 07, 2020
Cargill’s activity rises, supply chain turnover increases |
Ericsson dialed into 5G growth as Trump hangs up on Huawei |
Brexit Watch: Tariffs, Tesla cause headaches for Nissan’s long-term planning |
COVID-19 drove double-digit drag to U.S. transport employment in May |
Solar power, Hong Kong gold shine as tariffs continue to cloud U.S.-China trade |
Friday, June 05, 2020
Panjiva Daily: 27 billion threats to phase 1; Roche rescues falling test kit shipments |
Thursday, June 04, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s new Hong Kong tech rules; BMW, Land Rover to navigate digital taxes |
Panjiva Insights: The state of global trade in light of COVID-19 and the trade war |
USMCA’s benefits sorely needed as U.S. trade slump on COVID-19 closures |
Trump-Xi relations matter with 27 billion threats to the phase 1 trade deal |
Roche, Biomerieux rescue falling U.S. test kit imports in May after weak April |
Retail needs new services after Hapag-Lloyd, ONE draw more blanks |
Wednesday, June 03, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Costco’s COVID-19 cuts; Peet’s Brazilian coffee shipping perks up |
Vanadium national security review comes after imports have already collapsed |
Land Rover, BMW may have to navigate U.S. tariff cost of Britain’s digital service tax |
Build-a-Bear has tough post-COVID-19 decisions to make holiday shipping looms |
Cummins deals with uneven U.S. restart after Mexican, European closures |
Trump’s new rules could chip away at Hong Kong’s high tech imports |
Tuesday, June 02, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Dealing with no deal in Ireland; BRP, ZF adapt to the aftermath of COVID-19 |
Hankook less exposed than Nexen in latest U.S. tariff case |
Phillips 66 bucks trend as U.S. crude, refined oil imports drop |
JDE Peet’s Brazilian coffee shipments perk up ahead of IPO |
Costco cuts back in face of COVID-19, cutting overstocking risk |
Beyond COVID-19, trade war worries resume – May 2020 in 10 reports |
Monday, June 01, 2020
ZF announces layoffs as auto part imports start to show wear |
BRP sales jump, shipping skids as COVID-19 reopenings prove rocky |
American import pessimism extends on phased COVID-19 recovery |
Brexit Watch: Diageo, Pernod could make best of a bad deal with Irish shipping shift |
COVID-19 pressure eases, competitive pricing rises – S&P Global Platts Container Update, May 2020 |
Panjiva Daily: Winners from Pacific International’s plight; Nissan’s long-term supply chain plan |
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Evergreen Marine, Maersk win from Pacific International’s withdrawal |
Cost of COVID-19 medical protectionism visible in Indian exports to U.S. |
Lowest U.S. exports since 2009 caused by autos, not helped by Chinese food buying |
Panjiva Insights: The third phase of COVID-19, the next phase of the trade war |
Nissan takes long-term USMCA view after short-term COVID-19 disruption |
Friday, May 29, 2020
Panjiva Daily: HP Inc’s COVID-19 recovery; Canada first hurts U.S. aluminum |
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Expeditors steps up its tech game; China rescues U.S. pharma supplies |
HP’s COVID-19 recovery may be measured in months not weeks |
Shipbuilding exports reach lowest since 2017 despite China order recovery |
Canada first is the last thing U.S. aluminum smelters need, tariffs could return |
ZIM set to address finance, faces tough start to Q2 on Canada-U.S. lanes |
Smithfield, JBS gorge on China pork opportunity as prices fall, sales surge |
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Tesla, Paccar prepare for USMCA as Mexico reopens, tariffs trimmed |
Panjiva Insights: Academic angles in global supply chain planning |
Europeans remain depressed in May, global trade trends still negative |
Expeditors steps up tech game to tackle Fedex, Flexport |
China rescues U.S. with surge of pharma, ventilator supplies in May |
Wistron, IBM defy Mexico’s trucking downturn during COVID-19 closures |
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Medical supply shipments to the U.S. surging in May; COVID-19 export woes for Britain |
Louis Dreyfus, Cargill ensure Brazil, not U.S., dominates China bean buying |
Tesla readies for USMCA as round three of China tariff exemptions wrap up |
SpaceX’s journey to ISS still needs Earth’s industrial supply chain |
Paccar shows value of diversity in face of COVID-19, USMCA preparations |
Magna, Delphi lead Mexico’s automotive downturn as national exports slump |
Monday, May 25, 2020
Britain’s COVID-19 woes wash up on American shores in May |
China’s clampdown raises new U.S. trade challenge for Hong Kong |
SQM warns lithium will lose power after Q1 exports increased |
Semiconductor trade beats COVID-19 and U.S.-China trade war |
Medical supplies surge in May as Japan favors U.S.-bound shipments |
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Digital strategies help FedEx vs Amazon and Urban Outfitters vs COVID-19 |
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Finding winners in Trump’s Make in America plan; “unreliable entities” list risks |
Yang Ming, Evergreen win state support to maintain national champion status |
Lenovo faces new normal, still has peak season, supply chain switch to tackle |
Solar switch-off may leave LONGi’s panels in storage |
Urban Outfitters digital sales surge but Indian supplies slump due to COVID-19 |
FedEx teams up with Microsoft to tackle Amazon and Flexport threats |
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Panjiva Daily: COVID-19 is not the only supply chain risk for autos, renewables |
PVH, H&M supply chains face Typhoon Amphan |
Seattle, Tacoma feel COVID-19’s impact on empty container flows |
Trump’s Make in America plan may help set-top box, lighting sectors |
China’s unreliable entities list could put U.S. logistics providers at risk |
Giant, Trek cycle shipments fall behind as demand sprints ahead |
Monday, May 18, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Tracking the electronics retail slump; DP-DHL beats a bad benchmark |
Daimler readies for USMCA as COVID-19 disrupts factory flow |
Europe’s COVID-19 lockdown drags global trade to 8% drop in March |
Nordex, Siemens Gamesa ride out regulatory turbulence in Mexican wind |
Breville cooks up capital raise for growth as COVID-19 slices shipments |
Zinus faces mattress supply chain choices as second dumping case arrives |
Sunday, May 17, 2020
Brexit Watch: Ideology and disappointment reign as no-deal risks rise |
Electrolux shipments surge, Best Buy’s drop as retail sales wane in April |
Deutsche Post beats a bad benchmark in April, says Q2 not as severe as feared |
Wallenius Wilhelmsen heads for low water mark as Volvo, Komatsu shipments sink |
Sonos wins tariff leniency, had already been restructuring its supply chain |
Friday, May 15, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Autos emerging from COVID-19’s shadow; Cosco, Evergreen sail ahead |
Thursday, May 14, 2020
Corsair rams through more imports in April as COVID-19 demand rises |
Burden sharing with Treasury, China slips but U.S. tariffs still hit June 2018 low |
Cosco, Evergreen buck COVID-19 trend for container-lines as China recovers |
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Food supply chain risks during COVID-19; Under Armour’s inventory issue |
Brexit Watch: Britain gets a taste of 2021 as medical supply imports slump |
GM, Fiat-Chrysler’s U.S. auto restart may choke on sales, parts availability |
Hummer plans still humming, Tesla set to shock EV components slide |
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Apple joins Samsung in Vietnam; Intel’s geopolitical move to the U.S. |
U.S. port slowdown proves uneven, Norfolk falls behind |
Food supply disruptions during COVID-19 – three issues to watch |
Under Armour’s inventories surge as COVID-19 hits both demand and supply |
Panjiva Insights: Supplying a locked down world – the impact of COVID-19 on LatAm |
Monday, May 11, 2020
Panjiva Daily: H&M’s COVID-19 reaction; new round of national security supply chain reviews |
Michelin, Bridgestone could see small supply chains shifts in steel wire case |
Intel’s geopolitical move to U.S. should boost semiconductor machinery shipments |
Apple joins Samsung in leveraging Vietnam’s growing audio expertise |
Barley skirmish with China comes as Australia beats regional export average |
COVID-19 boosts drop-shipping, fractional trade means U.S. wins on a technicality |
Sunday, May 10, 2020
Logistics employment slump suggests continued low activity |
Manitowoc looks for national security lift from mobile crane investigation |
Cheniere’s cancelled cargoes show LNG challenge for China’s phase 1 commitments |
Cargill shows how U.S. may keep losing China soybean share during 2020 |
H+M’s COVID-19 response may be less forceful than Uniqlo, Primark |
Thursday, May 07, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Tariffs drive solid supply chain change; national security worries transformed |
Work-from-home rescued China’s export growth in April, trade war worries rise |
Wednesday, May 06, 2020
Panjiva Daily: The $21B trade war trigger; COVID-19 medical supply deep-dive |
Matson hopes faster means better as COVID-19 overshadows outlook |
Smith & Nephew does relatively less well as COVID-19 cuts elective surgeries |
Solid state drives shows risk from fluid state of trade war tariffs |
Schneider Electric, ABB face national security tariffs, may need to transform supplies |
Tuesday, May 05, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Mexico’s COVID-19 troubles include energy, could spread to ventilators |
Canada skids on oil as exports fall across the Americas |
Travel and transport slash U.S. trade activity, China deficit at 2004 low |
Phase 1 falls $21B behind schedule as U.S.-China relations worsen |
Coronavirus medical import deep dive shows testing, PPE imports improving |
Nestlé, J.M. Smucker Mexican coffee exports grind downwards |
Monday, May 04, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s coronavirus sanction tariff options; Japanese autos hit the brakes |
Worst is yet to come for volumes, fuel costs a salve – S&P Global Platts Container Update, April 2020 |
Loblaw’s surge could continue as South Africa’s coronavirus reopening proceeds |
Mexico’s ventilator export surge stops as COVID-19 spreads |
Coronavirus just the latest challenge for Pemex as energy imports slide |
Cinco de Mayo set to be tequila fueled as beer exports turn sour |
Looking ahead for green shoots, trade war risks – April 2020 in 10 reports |
Sunday, May 03, 2020
Coronavirus pessimism hits export order expectations around the world |
Trump ready to deploy tariffs in COVID-19 extension to trade war with China |
Toyota, Mazda’s deceleration delivers COVID-19 challenge for shipping lines |
Baby Yoda’s arrival adds force to Disney’s Star Wars shipments |
Friday, May 01, 2020
Panjiva Daily: DSV-Panalpina chases costs not volumes; ventilator shipments come back to life |
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Panjiva Daily: C.H. Robinson steps ahead after tough Q1; U.S. pharma imports slip in April |
South Korea finds even if you make it, they still might not come |
U.S. fruit decision may juice Chinese exports, squash farmers in Florida and Chile |
Church & Dwight puts the hammer down to meet COVID-19 demand |
DSV-Panalpina slashes costs, won’t chase volumes as COVID-19 bites |
Panjiva Insights: In for the long haul, COVID-19 impact on autos and medical supply chains |
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Panjiva Daily: UPS tackles COVID-19 with retooling; financial wins and risks from coronavirus |
Adidas looks to support supply chain as shipments inch higher in Q1 |
China’s manufacturing feels whipsaw effect from overseas demand |
Robert Bosch yet to cut U.S. shipments as auto sales drop most in 52 years |
C.H. Robinson beating peers in April after tough Q1 for U.S., global logistics |
Strides takes steps to tackle COVID-19; total U.S. drug imports slipped in April |
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Continental drifts towards Mexico as COVID-19 supplier worries rise |
Panjiva Daily: K+N’s huge opportunity; Ikea deals with COVID-19 downturn |
UPS faces costs from COVID-19 changes, European slowdown in Q2 |
USMCA Watch: Implementation finally arrives as COVID-19 takes toll on trade |
COVID-19 demand leads Sri Trang to plan capacity-stretching rubber glove IPO |
J.C. Penney, PVH accelerate Vietnam apparel imports as demand slides |
Monday, April 27, 2020
Global trade downturn set to continue as German expectations hit record low |
K+N’s “huge opportunity to grow” follows COVID-19 hit to volumes in Q1 |
Ikea deals with coronavirus demand downturn after tackling tariffs |
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Husqvarna’s COVID-19 exposure may mean Q2’s cut is bigger than Q1 |
Shipbuilding faces coronavirus headwind as exports, orders fall |
Invacare, iRobot gain tariff leniency as coronavirus troubles abound |
Friday, April 24, 2020
Panjiva Daily: The phased effect of COVID-19 on trade; monitoring Qisda, NEC’s return to growth |
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s oil import aims; Sulzer shows the importance of being essential |
China’s cereal purchase could kill the risk of a return to trade war |
Shiseido shipments slip, L’Oreal’s worth watching as COVID-19 cuts cosmetics |
Qisda, NEC shipments return to growth as monitor demand rises |
April’s bad news could be worse as China’s slowdown improves, Europe’s accelerates |
Kone’s elevator supply chain solid; COVID-19 cuts construction activity |
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Panjiva Daily: COVID-19 medical supply recovery underway; Nintendo aims to Switch up supplies |
Boeing’s suppliers may welcome reopening after descent in parts imports |
Sika seeks opportunities as COVID-19 raises inventory risks |
Trump’s oil aims may not mean U.S. imports shoot downward |
Fevertree shipments heat up, coronavirus requires channel change |
Sulzer’s essential business keeps imports pumping during COVID-19 pandemic |
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s low-key tariff leniency; Lear’s labor, sales and regulatory risks |
Nintendo looks to Switch up output as chips dodge COVID-19, for now |
Wind projects face COVID-19 turbulence, equipment imports yet to fall |
Stora Enso shipments slide as COVID-19 crumples paper demand |
Green shoots of spring recovery in COVID-19 medical supplies to U.S. |
Monday, April 20, 2020
Rose-tinted rear-view mirror, dark COVID-19, oil clouds ahead for global trade |
Trump’s tariff leniency may mean little for the economy, will prove complex |
U.S. loses as Japan accelerates medical exports in falling trade environment |
Sunday, April 19, 2020
Lear’s challenges spread to labor unrest as well as sales and regulatory risks |
Coronavirus causes port to cut capacity, costs and offer storage solutions |
Friday, April 17, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Best Buy tackles coronavirus; Hon Hai waits for WTO intervention in trade war |
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Amazon, SM Line outpace peers as COVID-19 cuts volumes |
SAIC may secure China supplies as U.S. tariff leniency is extended |
Hon Hai, Wistron may have fingers crossed for unlikely WTO intervention |
Best Buy tackles coronavirus with cost cutting, source switching |
New York overhauled Long Beach in 2019, thanks to a bridge |
Panjiva Insights: Shining a light on COVID-19’s impact on supply chains |
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Marathon and Pace face coronavirus hurdles; the risk from tardy Brexit talks |
Lower tariffs cut burden on U.S. importers, reduce pressure on Chinese exporters |
Indian labor shortage may slice cereal, spice supplies to China |
American pork heads to China as coronavirus cuts U.S. demand |
ASEAN+3 stockpile could cut future trade in medical supplies |
SM Line bucks falling liner trend with booming Canadian business |
Amazon’s global freight surge puts pressure on forwarders, helps Maersk |
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Panjiva Daily: FEMA’s coronavirus clampdown; how CH Robinson beat its peers in March |
Bigger difficulties ahead as COVID-19, consumers drag on Chinese exports in March |
Marathon’s import sprint may be ended by coronavirus, OPEC+ deal |
New York beat LA in March, EU exposure set to become a problem |
Brexit Watch: Tardy talks due to COVID-19 raise risks for future supplies |
Pace blames COVID-19 for financial woes; Denso, Magna shipments surge |
Monday, April 13, 2020
Hunter Douglas, Novelis face consequences of new antidumping case |
CH Robinson survives COVID-19 woes as growth outperforms peers |
Thursday, April 09, 2020
Bad, with worse to come – COVID-19’s toll on U.S. imports in March |
Panjiva Daily: Coronavirus questions answered; Tesla’s shutdown impact on lithium supply chains |
3M exempted as FEMA clamps down on PPE exports after surge |
Wednesday, April 08, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Matson stays healthy, competitors weaker; tire industry loses grip as COVID-19 drags |
No-one wins as coronavirus spreads but not all exporters will see a decline |
Loss of ferry capacity to COVID-19 could disrupt spirits, tire exports |
Vale changes shipping strategy, cuts exports in response to coronavirus |
Tesla’s deceleration may take time to reach SQM’s lithium mines |
Lindt’s bunny beats COVID-19 disruptions as imports hop higher |
Panjiva Insights: Coronavirus – the global impact, your questions answered |
Tuesday, April 07, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Trade war risks rise; new ways to boost Purell, ventilator supplies |
COVID-19 car demand drop drives Aleris to cut production, Norsk Hydro cuts imports |
Indian Oil uses exports to deal with COVID-19’s domestic demand drop |
Tire industry loses grip as COVID-19 drags, Nokian bucks the U.S. trend |
Matson stays healthy as coronavirus weakens competitors’ volumes |
Monday, April 06, 2020
Fisher & Paykel leads surge in Mexican ventilator exports to U.S. |
Toyota, Mitsubishi meet COVID-19 driven demand drop with slowing supply |
Trade war return risk rises with tariff cuts, purchase commitments yet to deliver |
Tariffs scrubbed from Purell pump systems as Gojo receives leniency |
Sunday, April 05, 2020
U.S. trade downturn extends to month six as coronavirus meets Canadian oil |
Friday, April 03, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Q2 Outlook special edition – Through a COVID-19 glass, darkly |
Thursday, April 02, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Healthcare supply chains during COVID-19; the rush to supply farmers |
Coronavirus goes global – March 2020 in 10 reports |
Q2 2020 Outlook: Through a COVID-19 lens, darkly |
Wednesday, April 01, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Room for more COVID-19 medical tariff cuts; Mexican gas deflation risk |
Asia data points may understate impact of coronavirus outbreak on trade |
Airfreight capacity drops, raising risk of force majeure |
Syngenta, Yara shipments may have dropped ahead of farm supply rush |
2010 low for U.S. import sentiment shows degree of COVID-19’s economic drag |
You don’t always get what you need – COVID-19’s impact on healthcare supply chains |
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Tracking ventilator shipments; Ceva’s force majeure casts doubts |
Medline, Cardinal Health could be blessed with further COVID-19 tariff exemptions |
Finding a new normal for volumes and fuel – S&P Global Platts Container Update, March 2020 |
AMLO’s coronavirus reaction could deflate CFE, Pemex gas imports |
Lenzing cuts costs as COVID-19 disrupts textile fiber flows |
Monday, March 30, 2020
Panjiva Insights: Trade talks, data shouts – COVID-19, stories from the data |
Drägerwerk’s U.S. ventilator worries already evident in March |
Konecranes can’t lift spirits as coronavirus delivers demand disruption |
Japan may float shipyard mergers in response to global consolidation, COVID-19 |
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Ceva’s force majeure bodes ill for supply chain certainty |
Friday, March 27, 2020
Outotec shipments surge, coronavirus complicates logistics |
Panjiva Daily: COVID-19 drives laptop PC shortage; JBS set to meet coronavirus challenge |
JBS faces a package of problems and opportunities from coronavirus |
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Panjiva Daily: India’s lockdown risk for pharma supply chains; coronavirus corrodes copper exports |
Global trade returned to the bad times before the worse times |
Canals set to face coronavirus challenge as shipping slows |
German trade sentiment falls at fastest rate since at least 1991 as COVID-19 weighs |
Consumer, autos sectors drive February’s fall in U.S. trade activity |
Laptop availability powers down as work-from-home demand rises, imports fall |
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Pemex faces problems, Valero and ExxonMobil do better in Mexico |
Glencore, Codelco copper exports corrode as coronavirus spreads |
India’s lockdown puts pharma, textile and machinery supply chains at risk |
Panjiva Daily: Shipping slowdown reaches U.S. shores; virus casts a cloud over solar |
Starbucks cuts Brazilian coffee purchases ahead of coronavirus closures |
Apple, Lacroix win in latest round of U.S.-China tariff exemptions |
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Shipping slowdown reaches U.S. shores as imports from China drop 45% in March |
Panjiva Daily: Flexport steps up as masks fall; COVID-19 forces Wallenius Wilhelmsen to dig in |
PVH, VF Corp. could prosper from a U.S.-Kenya trade deal |
Tractor-makers Deere, AGCO face fallow period as COVID-19 disrupts supply chains |
Coronavirus cloud settles over solar power equipment supplies |
Monday, March 23, 2020
Bayer raises, Torrent cuts supplies as Brazil lowers pharma import hurdles |
Wallenius Wilhelmsen digs in as COVID-19 cuts construction machinery shipments |
Coronavirus-linked container constraint emerges as empty handling falls |
Flexport steps up with coronavirus rules as medical mask imports fall |
Friday, March 20, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Answering Trump’s ventilator call; handling medical glove demand |
Volkswagen closes capacity as both supply and demand concerns grow |
Coronavirus not the only malady facing Mexican beer exporters |
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Panjiva Daily: FedEx attacks to defend against COVID-19; MSC avoids container dip |
Fading global trade provides a backdrop for Europe’s above-average January |
Samsonite supplies fixed, demand has 9-month trek to coronavirus recovery |
Trump’s ventilator call follows surge in imports by ResMed, Philips |
Top Glove hopes to handle coronavirus growth opportunity with new capacity |
Saudi Aramco, Phillips 66 face dual shocks to U.S. oil supplies |
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Panjiva Daily: DSV Panalpina’s coronavirus warning; EU’s coronavirus soap strategy |
Dupont faces higher costs as U.S. cools on Chinese refrigerant imports |
Japan’s exports slip rather than slide as China, chips prove resilient |
Brazilian iron ore sinks to new trough as Vale favors China |
MSC among the best as U.S. container line volumes dip in February |
FedEx attacks costs to defend against coronavirus headwinds |
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Panjiva Daily: The supply chain cost of Trump’s travel ban; waste sacks bag coronavirus tariff cuts |
Italy’s coronavirus lockdown may limit luxury, pharmaceutical exports |
California’s ports feel first effects of coronavirus disruptions |
Trump’s EU travel ban could raise costs for healthcare, electronics and luxury goods |
DSV Panalpina rings the warning bell for forwarders as coronavirus disruptions spread |
USMCA Watch: 31 month odyssey ends with coronavirus delay |
EU coronavirus strategy may wash away soap exports |
Monday, March 16, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Coronavirus – what we’ve learned about supply chains so far |
Coronavirus continues to drive U.S. tariff reductions, including waste bags |
U.S. Treasury take turns over as tariffs become victim of their own success |
Sunday, March 15, 2020
We’re not there yet – 18 coronavirus lessons from supply chain and financial data |
Friday, March 13, 2020
Sunshine state faces dark clouds from EU-U.S. trade conflict |
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Oil-for-corn deal shows supply chains adapting to Venezuela sanctions |
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Coronavirus second order effects reach Cambodia, Mexico supply chains |
Baltimore cuts capacity for coronavirus, Ikea and Fila may feel shortages |
Kansas City Southern flags Mexican COVID-19 risks; GM and Mazda exposed |
Brexit Watch: EU talks struggling, whiskey leniency needed to lubricate U.S. deal |
Stitch-Fix weaves tariff lessons into coronavirus strategy |
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Oil’s rout and global trade; Sanders, Biden trade debate moves to Michigan |
Signs of COVID struggles as Taiwan, Vietnam gain at China’s expense in electronics |
Baosteel bucks the coronavirus trend with surging U.S.-bound shipments |
Levi Strauss, Adidas face second-order Cambodian COVID-19 disruptions |
First signs of coronavirus’s drag as U.S. imports fall for sixth month |
Monday, March 09, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s coronavirus tariff sacrifice; bubbly soap imports |
Procter & Gamble soap imports bubble up ahead of coronavirus demand surge |
Costco coronavirus sales win may be followed by supply chain challenges |
Cardinal Health, Brady win as Trump sacrifices tariffs to tackle coronavirus |
Valero, Phillips 66 lead Mexican oil exports as AMLO prepares for more |
Sanders, Biden debate trade as Michigan’s auto exports wane |
Contraction, commitments and containers – Trade implications of the oil price collapse |
Sunday, March 08, 2020
China misses phase 1 purchasing commitments by 59% in January |
China still losing the trade war during the trade peace |
Friday, March 06, 2020
Trump’s China scorecard achieves best January result since 2012 |
Panjiva Daily: Who cares most about coronavirus? Chemicals and autos, but not healthcare |
Thursday, March 05, 2020
Chemicals, autos companies most preoccupied with COVID-19 |
India’s COVID-19 airlift could help solar, telecoms sectors |
Panjiva Daily: Logistics and the end of COVID-19 disruptions; Turkey restricts medical supplies |
U.S. to include 5G in trade deals, imports set to surge based on 4G, 3G history |
Sales surge, imports slow in autos sector as parts shortages loom |
Hapag-Lloyd sees extended period of coronavirus recovery |
Wednesday, March 04, 2020
Panjiva Daily: India COVID-19 drug supply restriction; TiVO’s TV box triumph |
Lego’s built a U.S. supply chain immunity to COVID-19 disruptions |
ArcelorMittal, Ternium may feel COVID-19 disruption in Mexican exports |
Supply chain questions for Nipro, J&J as COVID-19 export restrictions widen |
UPS, CMA-CGM see beginning of the end to COVID-19 disruptions |
Cheap fuel salves COVID’s costs – S&P Global Platts Container Update, February 2020 |
Tuesday, March 03, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Apple’s use for Trump; port strikes, not SARS, provide a COVID-19 lesson |
Target’s prepared for COVID-19 as new year imports slip |
Maersk’s integrated strategy bears fruit with India service launch |
New York joins roster of ports expecting COVID-19 disruptions |
TiVo’s triumph comes as U.S. set-top boxes head into decline |
India reacts to COVID-19, surging exports with key drug export restrictions |
Monday, March 02, 2020
Panjiva Daily:DP-DHL’s COVID-19 costs, Trump’s split security standards |
Coronavirus casts a cloud – February 2020 in 10 reports |
Oil powers, Dell drags on Texas; Super Tuesday trade policy clarity arrives |
Strikes, not SARS, provide a COVID-19 lesson for U.S. ports |
COVID-19 exacts a toll on U.S. housebuilding as lighting deliveries dim |
Apple uses Trump to access India in quick time |
Mad dash for U.S. electronics as COVID-19 disrupts supply chains |
Sunday, March 01, 2020
South Korea’s surprising rebound defies COVID-19, reflects timing |
China’s COVID-19 trade activity collapse; EU healthcare exports may soar |
Deutsche Post DHL warns of COVID-19 impact, electronics already sliding |
Friday, February 28, 2020
U.S. trade decline continues, phase 1 trade deal benefits yet to accrue |
Panjiva Daily: Foxconn, COVID-19 help Vietnam; K+N sees COVID-19 return to normal, in China |
Trump splits Japanese security view for titanium and steel cases |
Thursday, February 27, 2020
No pain, so no gain in tariffs for structural steel helps Valmont, CAP |
K+N experiencing return-to-normal in China while COVID-19 continues |
Foxconn, COVID-19 drive Vietnam’s electronics super-power status |
Matson faces triple-whammy of COVID-19 disruptions, others in the same boat |
Boeing, BMW central to South Carolina’s trade politics |
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Panjiva Basics: Counting the cost of COVID-19 for corporate supply chains |
Port of Los Angeles raises COVID-19 worries, Savannah’s shipping slides |
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s choppers-and-coke deal; Deere’s dear shipping |
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Global trade rebound in December likely to prove short-lived |
Choppers and coke – Trump’s latest trade deal makes a modest start |
Ikea rebuilds supply chain as tariffs slam door on Chinese cabinets |
Deere’s shipping could get dearer due to COVID-19 disruptions |
Monday, February 24, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Hasbro, Mattel tackle coronavirus; China cuts medical device costs |
Trump’s uranium support bears fruit, most supplies from EU and Canada |
Sunday, February 23, 2020
JBS gains Brazilian beef options after Chinese stampede |
Panjiva Daily: Uniqlo’s evolution, Lenovo’s refactoring in response to COVID-19 |
Repsol, Ford face Spanish digital service tax risks |
Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson may be helped by latest China tariff cuts |
Hasbro, Mattel supply chains face coronavirus, Hong Kong protest disruptions |
Magna dealing with COVID-19 and tariffs, to a certain extent |
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Bunge, Vale face slide Brazilian commodity exports to China due to COVID-19 |
Friday, February 21, 2020
Lenovo refactors its laptop supply chain in response to COVID-19 |
Uniqlo’s fast-evolving supply chain can’t avoid COVID-19 disruptions |
Maersk’s COVID-19 rebound in Q2 may be foiled by weaker European shipping |
Thursday, February 20, 2020
GE, Siemens may have much to gain if Trump, Modi can reach long term deal |
Panjiva Daily: COVID-19 hurdle for Adidas, Puma; winners from a U.S.-India trade deal |
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Tariff Quote Watch: Altra Industrial, Haldex cut China exposure as tariff worries wane |
Japan adds to evidence of a weak month for global trade in January |
Adidas, Puma look to hurdle COVID-19 challenges |
Panjiva Insights: Seeing clearly, reaching further – supply chain technology in the 2020s |
Panjiva Insights – Globalization alive but kicking |
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Panjiva Daily: COVID-19’s automotive disruption widens; Trump’s tariff carousel |
Panjiva Daily: Expeditors, K+N squeezed by competitors, COVID-19; JCB has a hole |
Sumitomo gains as Hankook demand skids |
Wallenius Wilhelmsen chooses contraction in shrinking car carrier market |
Expeditors, K+N feel pressure from weak volumes, challengers and COVID-19 |
COVID-19 set to leave hole in JCB’s U.K., U.S. supply chains |
Delong, Gavilon face export squeeze as COVID-19 cuts container availability |
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Nissan, Tata join the list of automakers facing COVID-19 disruptions |
Carousel passes LVMH, Constellation by as U.S. aero retaliation deepens |
SM Line, PIL realign as competition concerns conclude |
Saturday, February 15, 2020
Trump’s budget indicates major trade war de-escalation |
Burden sharing alive and well as U.S import prices from China hit 12-year low |
Friday, February 14, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Under Armour’s COVID-19 costs; solar tariff efficiency in doubt |
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Philippines’ moment of trade health may prove fleeting in face of COVID-19 |
Nevada’s copper and blood pay the price for U.S.-China trade war |
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Under Armour’s COVID-19 costs could spread |
Panjiva Daily: 2019’s malaise infects the ’20s; new shipping service for Ford, Molson Coors |
Trina, Hanwha Q-Cells shine as doubts cast over solar tariff efficiency |
Health of Chinese healthcare supplies called into question |
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Ford, Molson Coors may be targets for COSCO’s new service |
Indiana survives the U.S.-China trade war, conflict with EU more challenging |
Tariff Quote Watch: GoPro falls short as supply chain plan proceeds slowly |
Steering industry has to navigate coronavirus as Huida declares force majeure |
Monday, February 10, 2020
Panjiva Daily: DSV Panalpina’s soft outlook; Nintendo’s coronavirus cost |
Tariffs’ bite lasts into the ‘20s, jaws starting to unclench |
Sunday, February 09, 2020
DSV Panalpina confirms soft outlook for 2020, coronavirus uncertainty |
Coronavirus could stall Fiat-Chrysler, General Motors auto production |
Thursday, February 06, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s tariffs still successful; Electrolux, Sherwin Williams feel the burn |
Husqvarna’s revenues trimmed, import growth unchecked |
Canada a bright spot in a dark end to 2019 in the Americas |
Nintendo counts coronavirus cost as factories await reopening |
Melrose’s tariff relief may be short lived if EU-U.S. conflict gets into gear |
Wednesday, February 05, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Coronavirus hits logistics; Brexit deal making positions compared |
BAe, Lonza have friends in New Hampshire as primary approaches |
Electrolux, Midea feels the burn as tariffs continue to cool China’s exports |
Good news for Trump, bad news for the EU in latest trade data |
Tariff Quote Watch: Sherwin Williams shows Phase 1 doesn’t gloss over tariff pain |
Tuesday, February 04, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Vestas, DSV Panalpina get together; Wistron expands in India |
Milwaukee Electric, Tractor Supply drill for tariff exemptions |
Generac, Briggs & Stratton face tariff and currency questions |
Improving U.S. export sentiment faces realities of coronavirus |
Coronavirus delivers a blow to the logistics sector |
Brexit Watch: Britain’s not Canada in CETA, it’s Canada in USMCA |
Monday, February 03, 2020
Panjiva Daily: ONE’s got more than one problem; H&M’s tech investments pay off |
Wistron Joins Foxconn Making iPhone Components in India |
Tariff Quote Watch: Vestas tackles tariffs, calls on DSV-Panalpina for shipping help |
Petronet’s gas deal, not a full trade agreement, may feature in Trump’s India visit |
New decade, old problems as South Korea slides, China hopes darken |
A different kind of chaos – January 2020 in 10 reports |
Sunday, February 02, 2020
H&M’s supply chain technology investments pay off |
Ocean Network Express has more than ONE problem |
Illinois Tool Works trims guidance In response to coronavirus |
Coronavirus and Compliance – S&P Global Platts Container Update, January 2020 |
Friday, January 31, 2020
Panjiva Basics: Handling VUCA With HALO; Lessons for Portfolio Construction in 2020 |
Panjiva Daily: Corporate coronavirus reactions; Brexit begins; UPS beats peers |
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Panjiva Daily: CH Robinson’s troubles; Pegatron and Hon Hai’s divergent strategies |
UPS Beats Its Peers, Misses Out On Supply Chain Realignments |
Daimler, Keystone Face National Security Metals Tariff Extension |
Iowa’s About More Than Beans as Trade Policy Meets Electioneering |
Corporate Coronavirus Reactions Take Wait-and-See Stance, For Now |
Brexit Watch: The End of the Beginning as 20th Century Deals Face 21st Century Issues |
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
CH Robinson’s Slide Includes European Business Push |
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s Michigan visit and autos tariff questions; Orient Overseas leads the way |
Pegatron, Hon Hai Take Opposite Approaches To Supply Chain Shuffling |
Whirlpool’s Price Rises Helped By Tariffs Which Cut Import Demand |
USMCA Watch: One Hurdle Left, Then The Hard Work Begins |
Trump’s Deficit Victory Still a Ways Off, Phase 1 Effect May Be Delayed |
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Ford, General Motors Left Out In Cold By CSAV’s Car Ferry Exit |
Orient Overseas Tough 4Q May Have Beaten Its Peers |
Balanced Picture For Global Trade Could Tip on Tweets and Sneezes |
Panjiva Daily: Coronavirus exposure for autos, electronics; Maersk’s sceptical attitude |
Ikea, Steelcase Face Prospect of Make in India Tariffs |
USMCA Watch: Trump’s Michigan Visit May Raise EU Tariff Questions for Dana |
Monday, January 27, 2020
Maersk Sceptical About Trade Growth, Especially For Capital Goods |
Maruti Suzuki S-Presso May Perk Up Indian Exports as Ford Slows |
PIL’s Problem May Drag on Wide Range of Industries |
Panjiva Daily: Supply chain tech in 2020; K+N’s Asia acquisition search |
Coronavirus Could Disrupt Supply Chains For Autos, Electronics and Chemicals |
Tianqi Lithium’s SQM Purchase Brings Behavioral Change, Debt Woes |
Sunday, January 26, 2020
2020 Outlook: It’s About Time – The Future for Global Supply Chains |
2020 Outlook: Seeing Clearly, Reaching Further – Supply Chain Technology |
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Tariff Quote Watch: Phase 1 Trade Deal Too Late to Save Agrochemicals in 2020 |
Panjiva Daily: Secret trade review, Fender’s tariff tune and Spin Master’s stockpiling |
Tariff Quote Watch: VF Corp’s North Face Tariff Chill Set To Pass |
K+N Starts The Search For Asian Acquisitions |
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
JBS, Treasury Wine May Pay if DP World’s Australian Strike Action Worsens |
Panjiva Daily: DHL leads forwarders in 4Q, Ceva slips; steel tariff losers and winners |
Good News for Semiconductors Amid Japan’s Poor Performance |
Secrets and Deals – Auto Tariffs and Digital Taxes Cloud Trade Negotiations |
Fender Fends off Tariffs as Yamaha, Casio Miss a Beat |
Tariff Quote Watch: Spin Master Shows Threats Matter As Much As Reality |
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Black, grey and green swan risks in 2020; the phase 1 pharma harvest |
ArcelorMittal Dodges Tariff Trouble as U.S. Imports Hit Lowest Since 2010 |
Ruixing, Yara Fertilizer Shipments May Wither as India Aims To Cut Imports |
Codelco, BHP May Have Warm Feelings From Phase 1 Trade Deal |
Ceva, DSV-Panalpina Slip As DP-DHL, DB-Schenker Surge in 4Q |
Williams Sonoma, Faurecia Face Disruptions As Maersk is Beset By Le Havre Strike |
Monday, January 20, 2020
2020 Outlook: The Year It All (Might) Go Wrong – Black Swan Risks |
Panjiva Daily: Five supply chain strategies for 2020; what’s to watch in WEF week |
Dollar General, Greif May Bag Bargains as China Bans Single Use Plastics |
New Normal Means Same Problems as Los Angeles Loses Out From Tariffs |
Pharma Harvest From Phase 1 Deal May Be Transshipments |
Sunday, January 19, 2020
First Shots or Fast Friends – What To Expect from WEF |
Friday, January 17, 2020
Panjiva Insights: After the Dust Settles, Views on The Phase 1 Trade Deal |
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Phase 1 deal deep dive – commitments versus enforcement |
2020 Outlook: Fighting on Several Fronts – Supply Chain Strategies |
Burden Sharing Shifts as U.S. Import Price Deflation Slows |
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Logistics in 2020 – delivery in doubt; New York’s drinks problem |
Hapag-Lloyd The Best of a Bad Lot as Container Lines Suffer Poor Q4 |
TSMC Faces Defense Pressure To Shift Chipmaking as U.S. Demand Wanes |
2020 Outlook: Come for the Commitments, Stay for the Enforcement – Trade War Show Season 4 Begins |
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Alive and kicking – 8 global trends for 2020; America’s miserable end to 2019 |
2020 Outlook: Delivery in Doubt – Logistics Industry Prospects |
Philippines Shows China Chip Dominance Growing, Regional Trade Still Weak |
New York Has a 2020 Drinks Problem as U.S. Ports End 2019 With a Dive |
Brexit Watch: Fish Fight First of the Free Trade Deal Frictions |
Treasury’s Tariff Take Reached $74B in 2019, Could Break $90B in 2020 |
Monday, January 13, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s nine trade frenemies in 2020; Yara, Mosaic’s sanctions exposure |
Consumer Surge, New Year Hold Keys To China Export Rebound |
2020 Outlook: Globalization Alive and Kicking – Global Trade Policy Trends |
Miserable End to The 2010s as Trade War, Weak Demand Slash U.S. Imports |
Gazprom, Kinder Morgan at Opposite Ends of EU-U.S. Common Gas Interests |
Tariff Quote Watch: Superdry Bails Out of China Sourcing as Shipments Sink |
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Terrible End to 2010s For Marine Logistics Employment, Raises Strike Risks |
Yara, Mosaic May Have Bigger Hormuz Exposure in Brazil Than Petrobras |
2020 Outlook: New Year, New Frenemies – U.S. Trade Policy |
Thursday, January 09, 2020
2020 Outlook: Trade War in Waiting – U.S.-EU Relations |
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s trade wars old and new – 2020 Outlook; Sonos harder to hear |
2020 Outlook: Ever-Changing Trade – 10 Lessons From The Past 10 Years |
Mission Not Yet Accomplished – The Phase 1 Trade Deal Awaits |
Sonos Disconnected From Rising Smart Speaker Market |
Wednesday, January 08, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s winning the trade war; Daimler leads autos downturn |
LG Electronics Leads Growth as TVs Get Ever Bigger At CES |
Tuesday, January 07, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Batteries, not Segway Ninebot the CES star; Mexico prunes its oil hedge |
Adidas, Sumitomo May Face Disruption From Jakarta Floods |
Kerosene, Fuel Oil Refloat Canada’s Export Growth As China Spat Continues |
Beans Bounce Back As U.S. Wins The Trade War in November |
Tariffs Not Needed as Daimler Slashes Shipments, BMW and VW Prove Resilient |
Wrong News At The Right Time Shows Success of Trump’s Trade Policies |
Hasbro, Mattel Find Growth in India, Government Looks To Tackle Quality |
Monday, January 06, 2020
Panjiva Daily: What went wrong in 2019; U.S. Steel shows tariffs don’t always work |
Giant, Trek Make Tracks Out of China as Tariffs Meet The Electoral Cycle |
Toyota Deprioritized U.S. As Japan’s Automakers Suffer Another Tough Month |
Segway Ninebot Grabs Headlines at CES, Batteries The Unsung Star |
Mexico’s Pruned Oil Hedge Follows Pemex Export Decline |
Airxcel Plays It Cool While Waiting For Tariff Exemptions |
Sunday, January 05, 2020
Cargill Key to Zimbabwe’s Mexican Corn Call |
Electrolux Leads as Tariffs Change The Shape of U.S. Washer Imports |
Divergent Reaction to Trade War Relief Seen in Export Sentiment Surveys |
U.S. Steel, CAP Show Steel Tariffs Don’t Always Deliver Their Aims |
Japan Tobacco, Philip Morris Face Pressure After Cigarette Imports Light Up |
Friday, January 03, 2020
2019 Review: Late Arrivals, Indigestion and a Nightingale – What We Got Wrong |
Thursday, January 02, 2020
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s challenges, Tesla’s tariff navigation – what you missed over the holidays |
Brace For Impact – S&P Global Platts Container Update, December 2019 |
Tesla Navigates Tariff Risks, ArcelorMittal Hits a Bump – What You Missed Over The Holidays |
Maersk, Matson Raise Logistics Consolidation Question – What You Missed Over The Holidays |
Talks, Reflation and Decline in Global Policy – What You Missed Over The Holidays |
Wednesday, January 01, 2020
Four Challenges For Trump – What You Missed Over The Holidays |
Sunday, December 29, 2019
2019 Review: 12 Events That Shaped Global Supply Chains |
Thursday, December 26, 2019
2019 Review: Recession, War, Nonchalance, Deficits and Brexit The Year in 5 Charts |
Friday, December 20, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Qurate fails to find festive tariff cheer; Brexit start gun fired |
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Dow, Chevron May Be Helped By China’s Chemical Gesture |
Cote d’Ivoire Beats Ghana In Satisfying America’s Cocoa Demand |
Panjiva Daily: ZIM zooms, Roku rolls over and Skywalker rises |
Hyundai, Posco Recast Steel Shipments, U.S. Rules on Vietnamese Circumvention |
Qurate, Givaudan Find No Festive Tariff Cheer as Leniency Petitions Are Rejected |
European Growth Can’t Prevent Another Global Drop in Trade Activity |
Tariff Quote Watch: Patagonia Climbs as Oakland Sees Beginning Of The End |
Brexit Watch: Queen Fires The Start Gun For 229 Day Sprint |
SQM Prioritizes China While Chile Wants to Diversify Exports |
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
China May Take The Ethanol Pledge, Helping Trump Before Elections |
Panjiva Daily: FedEx hit by Thanksgiving, trade war; Boeing cuts MAX, risking trade deal |
North Korea Sanctions Normalization Sought, Could Help Chinese Apparel Buyers |
Panama Canal Avoids The Worst of The Trade War, But Not Immune |
Rise Of Skywalker Leads to a Rise in Disney’s Star Wars Imports |
ZIM Shipping Zooms Ahead of Peers With China Success, Canada Routes |
Roku Growth Rolls Over Before Trade Deal Relief Arrives |
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Heroic assumptions, trimmed tariffs define the Phase 1 trade deal |
FedEx’s Woes Not Limited To Thanksgiving Timing, Trade War |
Light For Tech, Shade for Trade Generally As Japan’s Export Slump Hits Month 12 |
Boeing Minimizes MAX Shipments, Hurting Trade Deal and Supply Chain Prospects |
Textron Gets Respite from Trade War Tariffs, Still Cutting Imports from China |
Tariff Quote Watch: Costco Cuts China, Tariffs Are Now Business-as-Usual |
Electrolux Restructuring Delay Visible in Slowing Component Imports |
Monday, December 16, 2019
Beam Suntory Aims To Build Whiskey Sales in India With Oaksmith |
India’s Trade Slowdown Continues, Yet To Be Bolstered by Trade War or RCEP |
Trade War Show Season 3 Finale – The Heroic Quest for $100 Billion |
Sunday, December 15, 2019
USMCA Watch: Toyota, Mitsubishi May Face Future Canadian Complaints |
U.S. Customs Duty Haul Set To Fall By Just 10% After Phase 1 Trade Deal |
Trade War Show Season 3 Finale – Trimming Tariffs, Leaving Doubts |
Friday, December 13, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Amazon, Flexport show the way forward; phase 1 turns down tariffs, not risks |
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Panjiva Daily: End of the road for USMCA uncertainty; Airbus faces further tariff headwind |
Brexit Watch: Hardest Brexit Averted, Deals With EU, U.S. and CPTPP Needed |
Maersk’s Vietnam Expansion Could Provide New Service to New Balance |
Amazon, Flexport Show Way Forward in Tough Month For Logistics Sector |
Lululemon Aims To Squeeze Growth From Current Segments, Import Mix Changes |
Phase 1 Phase Out Doesn’t Remove Supply Chain Uncertainties |
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Brexit risk resolution beckons; Nintendo, Spin Master are nice, not naughty |
Airbus, Leonardo Face Tariff Headwind From Latest WTO Subsidy Ruling |
Sugar Imports From Mexico Depend on Tariffs as U.S. Harvest Turns Sour |
Ports Suffer From Weaker U.S. Demand, West Does Worst |
WTO Less Appealing As Appeals Body Breaks, Time To Paper Over The Cracks |
USMCA Watch: Ford, Daimler Near End of Long Road of Regulatory Uncertainty |
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trade war tears into apparel; GM, Hyundai hit reverse |
Power of Siberia May Be Bane of Texas as U.S. LNG Exports Reach Record |
Lockheed, Boeing May Benefit From Trump’s Trade-and-Arms Approach |
Nintendo Switch, Spin Master’s Owleez Mean Toy Imports Are Nice, Not Naughty |
Brexit Watch: Elections Should Cut Risks, U.S. Trade Deal Importance Rises |
Yazaki, Epson Help Philippines Avoid Asia’s Fate, For Now |
Monday, December 09, 2019
Hyundai, GM Slam on Brakes, U.S. Auto Sales May Slow Soon |
USMCA Watch: On The Cusp of a Deal, Canada The Remaining Low Hurdle |
Tariffs Strip Growth From U.S. Apparel, Electronics Imports in November |
Logistics Jobs Momentum Wanes on Precision Railroading, Trade War |
Sunday, December 08, 2019
Soybeans, Circuits Send China’s Imports Higher, Tariffs Still Drag on Exports |
CSX’s Syracuse Port Could Speed Deliveries for Constellation, Belden |
Friday, December 06, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trump set to keep his tariff cape; Guess? has strategy answers |
Thursday, December 05, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Walgreens, Natura face digital tax risks; Signify sees the light in China despite tariffs |
Tariff Quote Watch: Guess? Has Strategy Answers, Cuts China Reliance |
Tariff Quote Watch: Avnet Learns To Deal With Tariffs, Micro-Star Might Be a Winner |
Trump Unlikely to Relinquish Tariff Cape, Pressure on China is Working |
U.S. Import Drop Mostly, But Not Entirely, About The Trade War |
New Year, New Rules – S&P Global Platts Container Update, November 2019 |
Wednesday, December 04, 2019
Signify Sees the Light in China as GE, Feit Fade |
Tariff Quote Watch: Foster Electric, Pioneer Turn Up Volume of Vietnamese Speakers |
Panjiva Daily: Red Bull, Glock may be caught in DST crossfire; Bissell fails to clean up |
USMCA Watch: Eli Lilly Exports Slip, Pfizer Dosed Up As Drug Rules Are Abandoned |
Brexit Watch: Walgreens Boots, Natura May Face Trump’s Tariffs if Digital Tax Kicks In |
Louis Dreyfus, Cargill Show Two Sides to Brazil’s Struggling Export Economy |
Tuesday, December 03, 2019
Starbucks, JM Smucker Cut Back on Brazilian Coffee as Global Exports Sour |
Panjiva Daily: LVMH, L’Oreal face service tax retaliation; Trump’s steel tariff mettle tested |
Red Bull, Glock May Be In Firing Line For Next Round of U.S. Digital Tax Retaliation |
Bissell Fails To Clean Up in Exemption Requests, iRobot Still Waiting |
Carbon The Next Challenge for MSC, Hapag-Lloyd as Sulfur Rules Arrive |
Dumping Accusations Stored Up on Slow Moving U.S.-China Trade Deal |
Monday, December 02, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Teekay won’t give thanks for energy independence; Pepsi’s Liverpool opportunity |
LVMH Faces Triple-Whammy, L’Oreal Just One, From Digital Tax Retaliation |
Pessim-ISM Returns to U.S. Export Order Outlook as Trade Contracts |
Tariff Quote Watch: Natuzzi Starts Move to Vietnam as China Competitiveness Drops |
Trump’s Tariff Mettle To Be Tested By Brazil, Argentina Steel Action |
Bayer Caught as Herbicides Become Fertile Ground for New Trade Cases |
Stuck in a Cycle – November 2019 in 10 Reports |
Sunday, December 01, 2019
Bad Start to Year End for Asian Trade, One Sign of Light for 2020 |
Tariff Uncertainty, Export Downturn Dog Fortunes of Japanese Automakers |
Friday, November 29, 2019
USMCA Watch: Mexico Pushes for Ratification as Trade Growth Reverses |
Thursday, November 28, 2019
MISC, Teekay Won’t Give Thanks as America’s Energy Independence Day Approaches |
SQM Squashes Lithium Supplies as U.S. Battery Patent Litigation Risks Rise |
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s unfinished business; Best Buy powers through tariffs |
Pepsi, Caterpillar May Be Targets as Grimaldi Set to Spend Longer at Liverpool |
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Best Buy Takes Tariffs In Its Stride, Dollar Tree Stumbles |
Panjiva Daily: Sony’s Black Friday boost; Canadian rail strike oil opportunity for shipping |
Rising Tide of Shipbuilding Exports Masks Sinking Order Books |
Tariff Quote Watch: Cracker Barrel Gorges on China, Tariff Indigestion Yet To Come |
Teva, Sun Pharma Shipments Surge as Cartel Case Looms |
Wistron, Altis May Dial Into Laos for Fixed-Line Telecoms Exports |
Trump’s Unfinished Business For The Last Days of the Decade |
Monday, November 25, 2019
Sony Boosts TV Shipments Ahead of Black Friday, After Tariffs |
Brexit Watch: Labour and Pharma a Bigger Issue Than Farm Laborers for a U.S. Deal |
Samsung, Hyosung May Benefit From Dose of PIL’s New Vietnam Service |
CMA-CGM, China Merchants May Face CFIUS in Port Refinancing Plan |
Panjiva Daily: Tariffs chip away at Thanksgiving; Shell can be sure of competition |
Global Trade Slide Confirmed in September, Continued in October |
Canadian National Rail Strike Brings Opportunity for Oil Shipping |
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Trump’s Democracy Push in Cambodia Bring Tariff Risks for Li & Fung, Capri |
Aluminum Wire Imports From China Cut, Buyers Plug Into Turkish Supplies |
Royal Dutch Shell Can be Sure of a Panoply of Competitors in Mexican Oil Market |
Bunge, Marubeni May Need Japanese Corn Buyers to Offset Iranian Sanctions Risk |
Best Buy, Dollarama Find Tariffs Chip Away at Fryer, Thanksgiving Imports |
Friday, November 22, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Apple’s tariff Trump card, EC waives competition rules for shipping |
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Deutsche Post-DHL looks ahead; Kroger, Dollar Tree may return to Portland shipping |
Tariff Quote Watch: La-Z-Boy No Slouch in Tackling China Tariffs, Vietnam a Risk |
Apple Plays Trump Card in Managing China Tariff Risks, May Struggle with iPhone |
East Group, Trina Shipments Surge As Navarro Frets About Solar Power |
EC Waives Competition Rules, Shipping Alliances Can’t Force Profits Higher |
Vietnam’s Drastic Measures Construct Barrier to Plywood Sourcing Strategies |
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s $25B trade war chest; Kia, Hyundai caught in capsize closure |
Semiconductors’ Slide Continued in October, Holding Back Asian Exports |
Toy Story Aids Mattel, Star Wars Can’t Save Hasbro as Toy Imports Wane |
Albemarle, W.R. Grace Have Supply Chain Opportunity in Critical Minerals Deal |
Kroger, Dollar Tree May Benefit from Portland, SM Line’s Route of Convenience |
Tariff Quote Watch: Deutsche Post-DHL Looks Past The Trade War, Outperforms Peers |
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Kia, Hyundai See Biggest Dip After Brunswick’s Capsize Closure |
Trump Could Have $25B In The Trade War Tank If China Deal Fails Before Elections |
Panjiva Daily: Xerox, HP deal with slowdown, tariffs; LVMH pays the price for Airbus subsidies |
Japan’s Export Downturn Enters 11th Month With South Korea Export Slump |
Steel Tariffs Do Their Job, But Wider Use and Timing Limited by Law |
Brexit Watch: Aerospace Exports Take Flight, Airbus Sees U.K. as Competitive |
Foxconn Dials Back Indian Phone Part Imports as Xiaomi Calls For Export Help |
Monday, November 18, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Soybeans Save SeaTac as Trade War Trims Container Volumes |
Panjiva Daily: Maersk feels the trade war drag; Mexico’s Huawei issue |
ThyssenKrupp, ArcelorMittal Provide Steel Lessons as Autos Tariffs Stall |
Tariff Quote Watch: LVMH, Diageo Pay The Price For Airbus Subsidies |
Xerox, HP Deal Could Tackle Slowing Imports, China Tariffs |
Samsung, LG Cut China Appliance Imports, Retail Sales May Be Tariff Driven |
Sunday, November 17, 2019
Savli Copper, Motherson Sumi May Face Higher Copper Costs from Wire Investigation |
Brighter Europe Doesn’t Change Global Export Recession in 3Q |
Tariff Quote Watch: Arconic Faces Overstocking, Aerospace Late To The Tariff Worry Party |
Huawei Exports to Mexico May Be Bigger Issue Than Rural Sanctions Relief |
Friday, November 15, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Flexport a rising threat for freight forwarders; Hapag-Lloyd hits the right routes |
Chinese Exporters’ Willingness to Eat Tariff Hikes May Be Diminishing |
Tariff Quote Watch: Maersk Feels Trade War Drag, And Other Issues |
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s trade policy risks; Tesla’s localization strategy |
Tariff Quote Watch: Sappi Suffers From The Trade War, But Not Due to Tariffs |
Hapag-Lloyd Hits the Right Routes in 3Q, Suffers Slowdown in October |
Tariffs Fail To Floor Vinyl Tile Buyers as New Round of Exemptions Granted |
Farmers Claw Their Way Back Into Chinese Chicken Market, Have Bigger Fish to Fry |
Flexport Adds to Trade War as Threat for Freight Forwarders |
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Bolsonaro May Hope for BRICS Bean Boost With Improved China Relations |
Panjiva Daily: The Trade War Show, episode 52; U.S. port activity slumped in October |
Tariff Quote Watch: Wolverine Takes Tariffs In Its Stride With Restructuring, Price Hikes |
Tariff Quote Watch: Zoom’s Rapid Move to Vietnam Driven by Lack of Tariff Leniency |
Trump Outlines the Downside Case for Trade Policy in 2020 |
Tesla Rolls Localization Strategy into Berlin as Exports to EU Surge |
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Panjiva Daily: The trade war’s ugly side for beauty; SNCF’s new LiON battery service |
Trade War Not The Only Risk for U.S. Ports After Activity Slumped in October |
Panjiva Basics: British Elections – Everything You Know is Unlikely to be Right |
Asia’s Trade Recession Continued in 3Q, Despite Gold Miners’ Best Efforts |
Rare Earth Production Hike Retained in China as Magnet Exports Climb |
Panjiva Basics: After 52 Episodes, Trade War Show Season 3 Set for Tense December Finale |
Sunday, November 10, 2019
Panama Looks to Suck in More LNG Tankers as Phase 1 Deal Beckons |
Tariff Quote Watch: Revlon’s China Choice Paints Ugly Picture for Profits |
SNCF Launches Battery Service As Stanley Black & Decker, Sanyo Charge Ahead |
Jindal Steel, Viraj Lead Burgeoning Indian Scrap Metal Trade |
Crocs Snaps Up New Distribution Center as Imports Surge |
Friday, November 08, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Best Buy, Samsung switch off TV imports; worst month since 2009 for U.S. imports |
China’s Exporters Rattled by Electronics, Shake Off Apparel Tariffs |
Adani Wilmar, Emami Shift Palm Oil Purchases as India Cooks Up Further Intervention |
Thursday, November 07, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Expeditors’ worries about more than trade war; triple trouble for autos supply chains |
Tariff Quote Watch: Expeditors Has More Than Trade War To Worry About |
Tariff Quote Watch: Enersys Battery Tariff Charge Mitigated By Routings, Exemptions |
U.S. Seaborne Imports Collapsed At Fastest Rate Since 2009 in October |
Best Buy, Samsung Switch Off as List 4A Tariffs Hit Electronics Imports |
Vale Mine Reopens, Provides Growth Potential After Export Recovery Pauses |
Panjiva Insights: Old Age, Calm Waters – Economic Outlook |
Wednesday, November 06, 2019
Modi Prioritizes Farmers, “Make in India” As RCEP Progresses Into 2020 |
Triple Trouble, But No Hurry, For Automakers Ahead of Tariff Review |
Rapid Inflation in Gas Exports Could Be Aided by Phase 1 Trade Deal |
China The Main Cause of Canada’s Export Decline |
China’s Not Trump’s Only Problem as U.S. Trade Activity Wanes |
Tuesday, November 05, 2019
Panjiva Daily: DSV-Panalpina’s Hercules effort; Apple, Square go for early exemptions |
Monday, November 04, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Zebra needs Jabil to change its stripes; Vietnam rescues ONE |
Counting the Cost of Tariffs – October 2019 in 10 Reports |
111 Months of Logistics Job Growth Under Threat from Slowing Trade |
Tariff Quote Watch: Flowserve’s Import Flow Slows After Tariff-Linked Price Rises |
Tariff Quote Watch: Ametek Delivers Price Rises to Tackle Tariffs, Also Changes Sourcing |
Tariff Quote Watch: Arrow’s Imports Shoot Higher as Tech’s Tariff Preoccupation Grows |
DSV-Panalpina May Need Hercules Effort To Build Trans-Pacific Share |
Apple, Square Apply Early For Tariff Exemptions as List 4A Process Opens |
Sunday, November 03, 2019
Rare Dumping Case Could Bend Fitting Shipments for Welspun |
Vitol, Barry Callebaut May Face Cameroon Disruptions from AGOA Removal |
Tariff Quote Watch: Zebra Needs Jabil to Change its Stripes as List 4 Tariffs bite. |
Vietnam Rides to ONE’s Rescue as Rate Collapse Cuts Outlook |
Green Shoots in the Fall Not Necessarily a Sign of Global Recovery |
Semiconductor Power-Up Needed to Ensure South Korea’s Export Recovery |
Friday, November 01, 2019
Panjiva Daily: CH Robinson’s concerns, fears and unknowns; is there light in the trade war tunnel? |
Tariff Quote Watch: CH Robinson Margins Drop on Tariff Concerns, Recession Fears |
Using a Void to Fill a Hole in Demand – S&P Platts Container Update, October 2019 |
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Steve Madden’s Plans Include Price Hikes, Switching Mainland China to Hong Kong |
Tariff Quote Watch: PVH’s Queasiness Leaves Supply Chain Realignment as the Main Strategy |
Brexit Watch: Winter (Vote) is Coming, But Corporate Game Plans Already In Motion |
Panjiva Insights – Light In The Tunnel? |
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Starbucks’ Brazillian bean bet; Pemex takes the shine off Mexico’s exports |
Tariff Quote Watch: General Motors May Have Struck Out Before Strike |
Tariff Quote Watch: WH Group Charges Ahead, JBS Reverses as China’s Hunger For Pork Expands |
Vietnam Catches 60 Years of Aluminum Export Fraud |
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Starbucks Seasonality Shifts as Coffee Market Stability Concerns Rise |
Panjiva Daily: Losers from Trump’s Thai tariff hike; Becle beats the Tequila benchmark |
Orient Overseas Competes to Build Revenue, Replaces China with Vietnam |
Boat Builders Back Afloat as Orders Recover, Exports Rise |
Bacardi Needs Sapphire to Shine to Catch Pernod, Diageo in India |
Pemex’s Black Gold Takes Shine Off Mexican Exports, Could Provide a Recovery |
Monday, October 28, 2019
Mitsubishi, Honda May Lose Out From Thailand’s GSP Removal |
Trump’s Trade Policies Worked, And Failed, in September |
Global Exports May Have Spent a Sixth Month in Reverse |
Tariff Quote Watch: Thule Racks Up Another Decline in Imports as Tariffs Provide Double Whammy |
Becle Beats The Tequila Benchmark, Diageo The Main Threat |
Friday, October 25, 2019
Panjiva Daily: iRobot finds consumers won’t pay for tariffs; Skechers steps up imports |
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Steel Tariff Regime May Need Retargeting as Se AH’s Long Products Surge |
Panjiva Daily: Hasbro, ABB deal with the trade war; Whirlpool slows in Mexico |
Tariff Quote Watch: ABB Feels Trade War Impact, May Have More Mitigation To Do |
F-Pace Off The Pace As Jaguar Land Rover Plots Defender Growth Strategy |
Tariff Quote Watch: Skechers May Need To Redraw Strategy as Tariffs Land |
Tariff Quote Watch: iRobot Shows Best Laid Plans Can Fail as 23% of Firms Talk Tariffs |
South Korean Consumers’ Wrath May Be Driving Detente with Japan |
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trade war drags on K+N, UPS; Kashmir complication for Malaysian supply chains |
Tariff Quote Watch: Hasbro Shows Playtime Sometimes About The Timing Not The Play |
Tariff Quote Watch: Whirlpool Suffers Setback in Mexico, Still Faces U.S. Tariff Risks |
Codelco, BHP Face Disruptions as Unrest Sparks Copper Strikes |
Panjiva Basics: Using Supply Chain Data in Commercial Finance |
Samsung, Dyson May Be Exposed as Mahathir Flags Malaysian Tariff Risk |
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Grimaldi’s grim shipping view; Apple’s “Made in India” iPhone |
Glory Shifts Production As Commerce Puts Mattress Case to Bed |
Blame South Korea, as Well as China, For California’s Port Activity Decline |
K+N, UPS Show Drag from Trade War on Forwarders’ Revenues |
Sony, Bosch May Face Disruptions from India’s Kashmir Actions Against Malaysia |
Star Wars “Rise of Skywalker” Imports Timed to Beat Rise of Tariffs |
Tariff Quote Watch: Husqvarna Cuts Tariff Risk, Inventories Now The Issue |
Monday, October 21, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Deals haven’t helped DSV-Panalpina, Ceva; Exxon Mobil helps Kansas City |
Global Trade Downturn Led By Europe in August, Continued by China in September |
SQM’s Quest To Boost Lithium Prices Fails as Rosatom Joins Industry |
TSMC’s Telecoms Gain Offset by South Korea’s Crunch as Chip Exports Fall |
Panjiva Basics: Dealing With Dumping, Subsidies and Safeguarding |
Apple Shows Success of “Make in India”, Samsung Shifts Sourcing To Vietnam |
Tariff Quote Watch: Grimaldi, Weak Auto Sales Bring Grim Tidings for Vehicle Shipping |
Japan’s Accelerating Export Downturn Needs Mini-Deal, Detente with South Korea |
Sunday, October 20, 2019
Brexit Watch: Political Calculations Could Cause Glitch For Electronics Exporters |
Exxon Mobil, Valero Help Kansas City Southern’s Mexican Refined Oil Surge |
Deals May Not Have Helped DSV-Panalpina, Ceva in Forwarders’ Tough 3Q |
Friday, October 18, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Maersk leads 3Q container downturn; Trump’s olive branch for Italy |
Nissan, Qurate Shop For Leniency as Tariff Exemption Window Closes |
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Mattel Buzzing, Hasbro Makes Most of Marvel as Toy Import Season Starts |
Maersk’s Market Share Slips in 3Q, Loses Ground to Evergreen, Hapag-Lloyd |
Tariff Quote Watch: Pernod’s Tariff Rush Could Become Pricing Hangover |
Trump’s Olive Branch For Italy Could Help Chianti, Parmesan Exports |
Panjiva Daily: Ports pay price for trade war; Brexit export bright spots |
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Buzz and Woody Defeat Thanos as Halloween Imports Creep Ahead |
Trade War Hurts West Coast Ports, Helps New York Reverse Declines |
Ford, Meritor May Face Supply Chain Risks from Further Turkish Sanctions |
Panjiva Daily: Tariffs’ toll on clothes, chemicals; Turkish sanction risks for Ford, Meritor |
Panama Canal Dodges Trade War With Increased Shipments to East Coast |
Sumitomo, GE Drag on Indian Exports as Trade War Opportunity Is Missed |
Brexit Watch: Honda, Croda Provide Export Bright Spot as Deal-Based Brexit Beckons |
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Panjiva Daily: No KO, just more beans after trade war round 13; Trump’s steel stick lacks leverage |
Thyssenkrupp, ArcelorMittal Lose Out Even as Vale Recovers from Disaster |
HP Inc. Needs a Leaf from Compal’s Notebook if Trade War Worsens |
Trump’s Steel Stick Lacks Leverage With Erdogan, May Hurt Borusan |
Reliance Relies on Barter with PdVSA as Oil Sanctions Widen |
Tariffs Take Toll on U.S. Imports From Clothes to Chemicals |
Monday, October 14, 2019
Doosan Revs Up Imports, Kubota Has Trade Deal-Driven Opportunity |
Jagermeister Readies For Tariff Bomb Dropped By Airbus Subsidy Case |
Xi, Modi Talks May Assist Long-Term Fix for China’s Short-Term Export Slide |
Trade War Knockout Absent After Round 13 As Fifth Beans-and-Talks Deal Agreed |
Tuesday, October 08, 2019
Brexit Watch: The Sins of the Father Paid For In Aerospace, Steel Tariffs |
Friday, October 04, 2019
No Golden Week For Containers – S&P Platts Container Update, September 2019 |
Tuesday, October 01, 2019
4Q 2019 Outlook: A Range of Convenient Enemies – U.S. Trade Policy |
4Q 2019 Outlook: A Bad Time to Be Bad Neighbors – Global Trade Policy |
Panjiva Daily: Subaru shifts into reverse; the south’s trade war resilience |
Monday, September 30, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Nintendo switches on import growth; MSC’s cocaine hangover |
Semiconductors, Not Geopolitics Are The Driver South Korea’s September Slump |
Regular Trade War Tariffs Not Enough to Smash Glass Dumping |
Riding the Retail Rollercoaster – September 2019 in 10 Reports |
Subaru Slams Into Reverse as Japan’s Big Seven Automakers Hit The Skids |
Trade War Resilience Boosts Savannah, Charleston But Congestion Looms |
Improving Chinese Outlook Still Not Positive for Suppliers |
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Rothfos, Starbucks Unlikely To Be Bothered by Vietnam’s Coffee Cutback |
MSC Suffers Cocaine Hangover as Handling Falls, Status Reinstated |
Mexico’s Trade Reversal Points to Problems for Pemex |
Hapag-Lloyd Beats CMA-CGM as Houston’s Growth Slows |
Friday, September 27, 2019
Panjiva Daily: UNGA sees the rise of the mini-deal; Trump-Abe deal may help Hitachi, DMG-Mori |
Nintendo Turns On Imports, Switch Lite’s Sales Have Dim Start |
Thursday, September 26, 2019
German Expectations at 10 Year Low Bring Little Hope For Global Export Recovery |
Trump-Abe Mini Deal Could Give Hitachi, DMG-Mori a Competitive Boost |
The Rise of the Mini-Deal – Everything You Need to Know About UNGA Week |
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Bolsanaro’s Diversity Push Could Bring Cargill, Bunge Back to Brazil |
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Primark’s localization strategy; Levi and Adidas expand in Cambodia |
Trump Urges Moon To Buy More Guns, Lacks Usual Trade Leverage |
Brexit Watch: Wallenius, G&W Unworried About Direct Impact, DFDS Sees Disruptions |
Monday, September 23, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Apple, Barco win tariff reprieves; what to watch at UNGA |
Nine Issues to Watch During UN General Assembly Week |
Brexit Watch: Britain’s Toehold in Sock Exports Needs U.S. Trade Deal |
Levi Strauss, Adidas Boost Cambodian Purchases Ahead of Wage Rise |
Fastenal, Bossard Cut Back Threaded Rod Imports Before Tariff Tightening |
Shipbuilding Faces Heavy Weather as China’s Orders Slump |
Brexit Watch: Pernod Ricard, Diageo Make Most of Liverpool’s Service Expansion |
Primark Looks to Localize Sourcing For U.S. Expansion |
Sunday, September 22, 2019
Trade War Impact on Seattle, Tacoma Waning But Far From Out of The Woods |
BHP, Codelco Win Chile-to-Japan Copper Market Share from Antofagasta |
Apple, Barco Win Tariff Relief as Trade War Hopes Dim |
Friday, September 20, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Fiat-Chrysler, Tupras face Turkish tariff risk; Diageo in the tariff firing line |
Tariff Quote Watch: Britax Competitive Disadvantage Shows Tariffs Unsafe At Any Speed |
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Panjiva Daily: FedEx faces trade war toll; LG, Electrolux let tariffs wash over them |
Tariff Quote Watch: Valmont Bakes In Tariffs, Barely Trims China Imports |
Fiat-Chrysler, Tupras May Face Challenge Of Worsening U.S.-Turkey Relations |
Tariff Quote Watch: Diageo In The Firing Line For Shots Fired In A Trade War |
Risk of Trump’s Ire May Be Driving CSR, Alcoa’s Australian Export Behavior |
BAT, Steve Madden May Gain From Brazil-U.S. Trade Deal Tariff Cuts |
Jindal, Essar Struggle in Europe as Eurofer Calls For More Protectionism |
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
LG Electronics, Electrolux Refuse To Be Washed Out By Tariffs |
Tariff Quote Watch: Intel, ON Tackle Semiconductor Volatility From Trade Friction |
Panjiva Daily: Unprecedented Brexit drug challenges; East Group shines in solar power |
India Looks To Cut Coal Imports, U.S. Suppliers May Pay The Price |
USMCA Watch: Paris Could Sink USMCA Passage, Fish Industry’s Protection |
Tariff Quote Watch: Trade War Takes Toll on FedEx, Tariffs Aren’t The Only Issue |
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
East Group, LONGi Shine Brightest In Booming Solar Power Market |
Panjiva Daily: Hasbro, Mattel not playing around with tariffs; Urban Outfitters fills the stockroom |
Brexit Watch: Novo, Sanofi Highlight Unprecedented Supply Chain Challenges |
Abe Loses Leverage as Japanese Trade Activity Slides |
Destination Maternity Not Alone In Facing Tough Market, Tariff Tantrums |
India’s Iranian Rice Problem May Find a Fix In Indonesia |
Posco, Hyundai Steel May Be Caught Up In India’s SIMS |
Monday, September 16, 2019
Heineken Fills Up With Beer Kegs While Constellation Cuts Back |
Panjiva Daily: Saudi attack’s impact on oil supply chains; Hapag-Lloyd feels the pain |
India’s Export Woes Could Become Walmart, Costco’s Import Gain |
Trade War Winter Sees Pullovers Pulled Forward, Ski Wear Headed Downhill |
Hasbro, Mattel Not Playing Around With Rapid Inventory Build Before Tariffs |
Guess, Urban Outfitters Fill The Stockroom Ahead of Tariffs |
Sunday, September 15, 2019
Global Trade’s Summer Sun Already Fading |
Saudi Oil Attack’s Direct Impact on U.S. May Be Limited |
Dollarama Imports Surge, Worries About Trade War’s Impact on Innovation |
Brexit Watch: Pernod Ricard, LVMH Turn to U.S. Fizz Drinkers After Building Brexit Bubble |
COSCO Keeps Clear of California’s Nightmare August |
Hapag-Lloyd Feels The Pain of Trade War With Lower Volumes, Delayed Rate Rise |
Tariff Burden Sharing By Chinese Exporters Rising as U.S. Import Prices Fall |
Friday, September 13, 2019
Panjiva Daily: CH Robinson wins most improved forwarder; WH Group hogs the limelight |
Thursday, September 12, 2019
WH Group, JBS High On The Hog As China’s Pork Imports from The U.S. Surge |
Panjiva Daily: Oncologists, refiners get a Chinese tariff break; capsized carrier hinders Hyundai |
Tariff Take Hits Record $7B, Could Rise to $12B In Next Six Months |
Pemex Suffers Export Revenue Slide, Cuts Distillates Imports |
USMCA Watch: Healthcare Hurdles Remain for 2019 Passage |
CH Robinson Wins Most Improved In Lackluster Month For Forwarders |
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Global EV Sales Power Down, Exports Indicate a Tesla-Led Recovery |
No Sign of End to Steel, Aluminum National Security Tariffs |
Tariff Quote Watch: Savannah Dodges Downturn as LA Strikes Bleak Outlook |
Panjiva Daily: BP boosts Britain before Brexit breather; iPhone 11 arrives as phone imports rise |
East Beats West as Panama Transits Hit Seven Year High |
Glovis Shipping Accident Hinders Kia’s Growth, Exacerbates Hyundai’s Woes |
Varian, ExxonMobil May Be Winners From Chinese Tariff Exemptions |
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
iPhone 11 Arrives as U.S. Phone Imports Rise, Tariff Costs Await |
Lackluster U.S. Import Growth Balances Robust Consumer, Weaker Industrial Demand |
Tariff Quote Watch: Giant Shifts To a Higher Gear as Tariff Costs Rise |
Brexit Watch: BP, Shell Provide Temporary Boost to British Exports |
Monday, September 09, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Lululemon’s tariff flexibility; Daimler, Volvo tap the brakes |
Panjiva Insights: China Beyond Tariffs |
Cameco Cuts Uranium Supplies, Kazakhstan Plugs the Gap in U.S. Imports |
Sunday, September 08, 2019
China’s August Export Slip Shows No-One’s Really Winning The Trade War |
Logistics Employment Growth Slows to Weakest in Over Five Years |
Exploding U.S. Gas Sales May Need Political Support To Reach India |
Migration Risks Remain for Mexican Truck Exports |
Daimler, Volvo Tap The Brakes As U.S. Auto Sales Surge in August |
Tariff Quote Watch: Lululemon’s Flexibility Reduces Damage from Tariffs |
Friday, September 06, 2019
Panjiva Daily: The trade war show returns for season three; Johnson Health lifts inventories |
Thursday, September 05, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Uniqlo’s far from unique China exposure; Kronos finds time to grow |
Tariff Quote Watch: Johnson Health Lifts Inventories Before Relocation to Battle Tariffs |
Dorian Delays Maersk, CMA-CGM Shipping Through Norfolk |
Adani, Wilmar May Lose Out as India Tries to Wave Off Palm Oil Import Surge |
ADM, Louis Dreyfus Fail To Make Much Hay From Trade War’s Soybean Battle |
Vale’s Iron Ore Return Favors China, Still Not Back to Historic Levels |
The Trade War Show – Renewed for Season Three With Showdown Set for October |
Wednesday, September 04, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Lego’s built-in advantage over Hasbro; Pemex needs to diversify |
Raizen, Valero May Find Ethanol Growth in India After Brazilian Shipments Subside |
Ground Being Prepared for Next Round of U.S. Agricultural Trade Conflicts |
Uniqlo Far From Unique in Needing Fast Fix for Chinese Apparel Exposure |
Canada Joins Americas Export Downturn in July as Oil Slips |
EU May Have More to Fear Than China as Trump’s Prefered Metric Worsens |
Kronos Takes Time to Build Pigment Imports, as Lanxess Counts Cost of Paint Tariffs |
Tuesday, September 03, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Brexit countdown – 18, or 6, days to go; Best Buy ready to tackle tariffs |
Dorian Downgraded, But Risks for Daimler, Home Depot Supply Chains Remain |
Lego Has a Built-In Advantage as U.S. Supply Chain Avoids China |
Tariff Quote Watch: Collapse in U.S. Trade Outlook Driving Corporate Reactions |
JCB Builds Indian Inventories As Local Financing, Brexit Issues Gather |
Pemex Has Room, Need To Diversify Export Sales as Government Hedging Ends |
MSC, Maersk Enhance Routes as America Wanes, Lone Star Surges |
Monday, September 02, 2019
Chinese Chips, Not Japanese Sanctions To Blame for South Korea’s Woes |
China’s Import Plans Bode Ill for Global Trade Outlook |
Letting Loose The Dogs of Trade War – August 2019 in 10 Reports |
Brexit Watch: Supply Chain Doubts Swirl With 18, or 6, Days Left to Stop a Hard Brexit |
Sunday, September 01, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Target Refuses to Be Targeted For Tariff Related Price Rises |
Tariff Quote Watch: Best Buy Ready To Tackle Tariffs, TV Exposure Limited By Mexican Purchases |
Friday, August 30, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Deckers, Wolverine stockpile shoes; PriceSmart, Hyundai face Dorian’s fury |
PriceSmart, Hyundai Mobis May Face Dorian’s Fury |
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Panjiva Daily: HP hopes for the best; Google picks Pixel’s production place |
Peak Season Disappointments and Confusion – S&P Global Platts Container Update, August 2019 |
Hikvision Stockpiles Cameras Before Double Whammy of U.S. Ban And Tariffs |
Zoom Loses Out as Tariff Exemption Processing Crawls |
Tariff Quote Watch: Deckers, Wolverine Show Signs of Stockpiling Ahead of Shoe Tariffs |
Codelco, BHP Suffer Chilean Copper Corrosion on Lower Prices, Strike |
Accelerating Slide in U.S. Trade Shows Impact of Tariff War, Waning Confidence |
Google Picks Pixel’s New Production Center To Mitigate Labor, Tariff Costs |
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Panjiva Daily: VW and GM drive Mexico’s growth; SQM sees little reward for its restraint |
U.S. Steel Layoffs Hint at Tariffs Failing to Do Their Job |
Flextronics Hoovers Up Dyson’s Business after Huawei Hits U.S. Blacklist |
Tariff Quote Watch: HP Hopes for Best from List 4 As Tech Sector Tariff Worries Rise |
Mexican Peak Season Catches U.S.-China Trade War Cold |
Hyundai, Daewoo Shipbuilding Face Falling Exports, Japan Policy Risk |
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trump and Xi escalate the trade war; two become one as DSV absorbs Panalpina |
European Trade Sentiment Turns for the Better, Still Close to the Worst |
FILA Finds Its Way to Growth, IKEA Cuts as Baltimore Prepares to Expand |
SQM’s Restraint Goes Unrewarded as Lithium Prices Slide |
New Semiconductor Spat Arrives As Chip Export Slide Slows |
Volkswagen, General Motors Drive Mexican Export Acceleration |
Monday, August 26, 2019
Two Become One as DSV Absorbs Panalpina With Added Scale, Unchanged Risks |
Global Trade Decline Confirmed in June, Evidence Suggests More of The Same in July |
Trump, Abe Agree Corn Deal That May Be A Red Herring |
USMCA Watch: Mastronardi and NS Grow Tomato Shipments While Commerce Snips Others |
Surfboard Makers Ride Tariff Wave Out Of China |
War and Peace and War – Two Years of The U.S.-China Trade Conflict |
Monday, August 19, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Why Trump sees Europe as worse than China; finding who faces list 4A tariffs |
Brexit Watch: Oil and Petrol Trade May Make Keeping Moving Hard Enough |
Worse-Than-China Europe May Face Tariffs in Aerospace, Autos and Drugs Sectors |
Sunday, August 18, 2019
EU Dragged The Global Trade Economy Into a 2Q Downturn |
Friday, August 16, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Panalpina, DSV head opposite ways; Maersk enumerates tariff troubles |
Samsung, Adidas, Hasbro May Face List 4A Tariffs |
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Maersk Slows, Identifies Tangible Tariff Troubles |
Tariff Quote Watch: Lenovo Lines Up Laptop Price Rises if Tariffs Require Relocation |
Brexit Watch: Modular Deal With U.S. Needed To Avoid Tariff Trouble Later |
Red Bull, Roche Rise Rapidly as Norfolk’s Traffic Slows |
Tesla-Audi Pole Matters As Electric Vehicle Sales Power Up |
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Unpacking Trump’s latest tariff move; the cause of Long Beach’s woes |
Panalpina, DSV Head In Opposite Directions As Forwarding Volume Growth Sags |
Chinese Exporters Continue To Soak Up (A Proportion Of) U.S. Tariffs |
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Panjiva Daily: H&M, Ascena’s back-to-school tariff strategies; Southern, AEP face tariff pressure |
Alaskan Fish, Ores Hit By The U.S.-China Trade War |
Inventec Restructures Production for HP, Sonos Supplies Stay in China |
Brexit Watch: Drug Shipments Down On Brexit Hangover, Headaches Remain |
Trump’s De-escalation May Reduce Peak Shipping Disruption |
CMA-CGM and THE Alliance The Root of Long Beach’s Problems in July |
Monday, August 12, 2019
ZIM Shipping Steams Past The Competition With 2M Route Realignments |
U.S. Customs Duties Reach $6.5B in July, List 4 Could Add Another $2.4B |
Brexit Watch: Freeport Plan Needed As British Port Activity Passes Brexit Bounce |
Panjiva Daily: Funko’s pop and the trade war; 80 days to go until Brexit |
H&M, Ascena Appear to Follow Different Routes For Back to School Imports |
Tariff Quote Watch: Southern, AEP Feel The Power of Trade Policy Conflict |
Sunday, August 11, 2019
Biodiesel Battle Between EU and Indonesia May Help U.S. Dairy Farmers |
American Port Activity Helped By May’s U.S.-China Trade Talks Breakdown |
Semiconductors Help Philippines Avoid Asia’s Falling Export Fate |
Cabinet Case Shows Complexities of Multi-Layered Tariff Judgements |
Brexit Watch: 80 Days To Go – Trade in Decline, “Selective Shortages” of Food Possible |
Tariff Quote Watch: Funko’s Import Pop May Be Stockpiling as Well As Strong Demand |
Saturday, August 10, 2019
Busan An Unlikely Loser From the Trade War |
Friday, August 09, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Stockpiling started in July; Hapag-Lloyd resists the trade war’s pull |
Thursday, August 08, 2019
China Wins the Losing Fight in July |
Stockpiling for Now, Vietnam For Later as U.S. Seaborne Supply Chains Evolve |
Hapag-Lloyd Resists the Trade War’s Pull With Improved Asia ex-China Volumes |
U.S. Has Little To Lose From Reduced China Oil Sales |
Samsung’s Big Phone Pricing May Need To Dial In Tariff Contribution |
Wednesday, August 07, 2019
Panjiva Insights: The Global Trade War’s Impact and Road Ahead |
Panjiva Daily: The roots of China’s devaluation; Conagra may be caught by tariff retaliation |
Tuesday, August 06, 2019
Toyota Profits, Imports Pull Ahead, Tariffs Just Around the Corner |
Conagra, Silver Bay May Be Caught By China’s Latest Tariff Retaliation |
Canada’s Rare Slip Drags Regional Exports Into A Slide |
Venezuelan Sanctions Push Has Already Crushed Food, Medicine Imports |
China’s Currency Dip Has Roots In $6.4B Net Export Swing |
Korean Denuclearization Being Dragged Into The Trade War |
Monday, August 05, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trump won the trade war in June; JAB gulps down Brazil’s coffee bounty |
ADM, Scoular Corn Shipments Wilt, Ridley Takes Mexican Crown |
Sunday, August 04, 2019
Newtrend Dumping Case Shows Import Volatility Caused By Investigations |
Bad Month for Marine Employment May Have Temporary Tariff Relief |
JAB, Tchibo Gulp Down More Brazilian Coffee as Price Sours |
Friday, August 02, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Who pays for Trump’s latest trade war escalation; Puma sprints away from China |
Preparing For The Storm – July 2019 in 10 Reports |
Trump’s Trade Win in June Makes September Tariffs Even More Likely |
Thursday, August 01, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Puma Sprints Away From China, Fila Runs The Opposite Way |
The Summer That Never Was – S&P Global Platts Container Update, July 2019 |
Panjiva Daily: DSV outpaces CH Robinson; Cannondale’s catching the pack |
South Korea’s Slump Powered By Semiconductor Slide, Japan Feud |
U.S. Businesses Report Worst Export Outlook Since Feb. 2016 |
Vale’s Iron Ore and Steel Exports Continue to Recover After Mining Disaster |
Yara, Mosaic Yet To Benefit as Brazil’s China Bean Bounce Remains Unharvested |
Trump’s Latest Trade War Escalation Brings Tariffs Direct to Consumers |
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Hong Kong escalation exposures; Trump’s next target – Vietnam |
China Export Outlook Better, But Still Bad |
Wind Tower Dumping Case Brought After Gust of Imports |
Aurobindo, Cadila May Be Losers From Surging Canada-to-U.S. Drug Trade |
Cannondale’s Catching the Pack With New Models, Giant Shrinks |
DSV Outpaces CH Robinson With Less China Exposure, Faster European Growth |
From S-301 to PRC-70 – A Roadmap for the U.S.-China Trade War (Update) |
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Code Me The Horizon – Analyzing the Future of Asian Supply Chains |
Tariff Quote Watch: Ralph Lauren Follows the Fashion for Baggy Inventories |
Panjiva Daily: Cracking the Asian supply chains code; Signify’s signs of slowing |
Signify’s Imports Shows Signs of Slowing As GE Competition, Tariff Risks Rise |
Hong Kong Escalation Brings Disruption Risks For TPV, Gree Electric |
Trump’s Tariff Targeting May Shift to Vietnam as Deficit Soars |
Chevron Looks Elsewhere, Valero Waits as Venezuelan Taps Turned Off |
Vestas Leads Indian Export, U.S. Import Wind Booms |
Monday, July 29, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Illinois Tool Works Sees Immaterial Effect, Still Slashed China Imports |
Panjiva Daily: The $1.5B price of peace talks; Foxconn buck’s the Mexican import trend |
Shipbuilding Industry Expects to Stay Afloat Despite Sinking Orderbook |
Peru’s Timber Felled on U.S. Logging Scrutiny, Reputational Risks May Grow |
L’Oreal Makes Transatlantic Shipping Worth It For Orient Overseas |
LVMH Stuck In The Middle of the Trump-Macron Digital Tax Spat |
Sunday, July 28, 2019
ZF’s Exemption Patience Pays Off, Further Supply Chain Shifts May Be Needed |
Eldorado Provides a Golden Opportunity in Brazil for COSCO Shipping |
Peace Purchases of $1.5B Possible as U.S.-China Trade Talks Restart |
Friday, July 26, 2019
The Worst is Yet To Come as Global Trade Declines |
Panjiva Daily: Wolverine claws its way to lower costs; Schneider avoids tariff trouble |
Foxconn, Jabil Circuit Buck Mexico’s Falling Import Trend |
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Wolverine Claws Its Way Down The Labor Cost Ladder |
Tariff Quote Watch: Hasbro Feels The Cost of Trade War Even Without Tariffs, Mattel Stockpiles |
Tariff Quote Watch: Schneider Electric Avoids Tariff Trouble, Switches Supply Mix |
Panjiva Daily: Technology at the heart of the trade war; UPS turns a corner |
Bunge Bets on Brazilian Ethanol as Sugar, Soybean Shipments Sour |
Chinese Gasoline Supplies May End Marathon’s Rapid Run of Mexican Growth |
Export Slump May Drive Trump To More Hawkish Stance on China, Autos |
BAT Lights Up, Honda Accelerates As Norfolk Port Expansion is Completed |
Panjiva Insights: Vale’s Tears Continue Despite 62% Jump in Iron Ore Exports |
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Croda Sees Tariff-Led Chemicals Decline, Impact Indirect |
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s Pakistan targets; Tariff worries rise, Electrolux sees them as business-as-usual |
UPS Turns A Corner Despite Facing Trade Uncertainty Headwinds |
Panjiva Insights: Technology Supply Chains – The Heart of The U.S.-China Trade Conflict |
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Trump’s Pakistan Trade Aims May Need Levi, JC Penney Sourcing Strategy Help |
Tariff Quote Watch: Electrolux Shows Duties Are Now Just Business-as-Usual |
Maersk Clears Automation Hurdle, Needs New Customers To Boost Pier 400 |
Panjiva Daily: Abe’s trade policy to-do list; K+N’s discipline pays off |
K+N’s Volume Discipline Helps Profit Recovery, Cuts Trade War Exposure |
Hapag-Lloyd Leads as Mexico Spices Up Houston’s Performance |
Tariff Quote Watch: Syngenta Harvests The Cost Of Tariffs With Lower Income |
Evonik, Solvay Caught In The Latest China-U.S. Tariff Review |
Monday, July 22, 2019
UTC, Electrolux May Be Answer To Santos’s Sino-Brazil Trade Strategy |
Panjiva Daily: Panalpina’s volumes sag; Laredo improvements help Caterpillar, Procter & Gamble |
True Value Seeks To Renovate Its Supply Chain |
Hyundai Runs Risk of Discounts With Auto Import Boost, Parts Cut On Tariffs |
Longi, Trina Find Small Gap In the Tariff Clouds |
Poor Protein Adds to Bunge’s Soybean Woes, Louis Dreyfus May Suffer Later |
Hormuz Hazard Hangs Over Hindustan, Chennai Oil Imports |
Life After The Elections – Abe’s Trade Deal To-Do List |
Sunday, July 21, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Volvo Looks To Swerve Around Tariffs With Cost Cutting |
COSCO’s Container Carriage Keeps Collapsing as ZIM Loses Its Zip |
Japan’s Technology Export Weakness a Prime Example of Asia’s Trade Troubles |
TSMC Hopes Chips Will Be Up as Exports Fall 5% in 2Q |
Caterpillar, Procter & Gamble to Benefit From Laredo’s Improvements |
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Panalpina’s Perfect Profit Performance Broken as Volumes Sag |
Panjiva Insights: The Future of Alternative Data – Supply Chain Intelligence |
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Tough times for freight forwarders; Trump looks at nuclear options |
Trump Avoids Uranium Tariffs, Looks At Nuclear Options |
Tough Times For K+N, CH Robinson as U.S. Forwarding Volumes Reverse |
French Rebound Didn’t Prevent a Global Trade Recession in May |
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Retail sourcing strategies vary as tariff risks remain; Ikea leaves America |
Tariffs on Chemicals, Capital Goods Drive Price Deflation in U.S. |
Treasury Tariff Tax Take Takes a Toll on American and Chinese Businesses |
Monday, July 15, 2019
Target, Best Buy Yet To Avoid China As Retail Sourcing Strategies Vary |
Panama Pushes Ahead as Suez Channels Trade War Pain |
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s tariff fingerprints; BASF blames duties for downgrade |
Cargill, Sucden Down After India’s Sugar Subsidy Rush |
Tariff Quote Watch: Under Armour, Lands End Drive Eclat Sourcing More Than Tariffs |
Ikea Drops U.S. and China Sourcing, Favors Brazil and Thailand |
Long Beach Comes Up Short as Trade War Trims Seaport Activity |
Sunday, July 14, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Fastenal Margins Tighten Despite Duty-Driven Price Rises |
Australia’s Resilience Versus Trade War May Prove Fleeting |
Brexit Watch: Jaguar, Honda Part of the Problem as Exports Decelerate |
China’s Telecoms Crown Tarnished as Apple, Samsung Expanding in India |
Friday, July 12, 2019
Trump’s Tariff Fingerprints Clear in June Import Drop |
China Buys Less from The U.S., Rising Deficit Raises Tariff Imposition Risk |
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: BASF Blames Duties for Downgrade as Dyes Fade |
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Game over for Nintendo, in China; Valmont, Tenaris face steel challenge |
Asia Enters Export Recession As Philippines Inches Ahead |
Game Over for Nintendo in China as Switch Switches to Vietnam |
Valmont, Tenaris May Be Burned by Structural Steel Case |
Tuesday, July 09, 2019
Taiwan Tank Deal Great For Trade Targets, Bad For Trade Negotiations |
Volkswagen Mexico Accelerates While Key Market Sales Slow |
Calavo, Del Monte Meet America’s Avocado Hunger From Mexico, Mission from Peru |
Taco Bell’s Flatbread Shortage is Bimbo’s Opportunity to Raise Exports |
Monday, July 08, 2019
Tesla Exports, Hyundai EV Imports Surge but U.S. Auto Sales Slip |
Back-to-School Bounce For Apparel, Drop For Backpacks Down to Duties |
Panjiva Daily: Electric vehicle trade charges ahead; GKN and iRobot aim for tariff exemptions |
Sunday, July 07, 2019
HP, Dell Take Different Early Paths to Tackle Tariffs |
Panjiva Daily: Trump triumphs in the trade war in May; Dell, HP’s tariff tactics |
GKN, iRobot Hoping For The Best With List 3 Tariff Exemption Requests |
Sony, Cardinal Health Potential Beneficiaries of Mexican Tariff Strategy |
Friday, July 05, 2019
Stevedores Start to Suffer from Prolonged Tariff Tactics |
Thursday, July 04, 2019
Trump Triumphs in May Trade Battle With $7B Drop in Bilateral Trade |
Suzuki, Marubeni Face India Dumping Case as Steel Intervention Widens |
Hyundai, GE Could Be Targets for ZIM’s New 2M-Affiliate Service |
FedEx Looks For Golden Opportunity in Colombia |
Hapag-Lloyd Picks a Plum Opportunity With Reefer Investment |
Wednesday, July 03, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Change is the only constant: 10 trade policies to watch in 3Q 2019 |
Volkswagen’s Acceleration, Tenaris’ Turnaround Support Veracruz Port Spending |
Canada’s Growth Surge Shows Cost to U.S. of Tariff-Led Policies |
U.S. Trade Deficit Widens as Exports Drop, But At Least The China Tariffs Are “Working” |
Tuesday, July 02, 2019
Container Shipping Makes More Money But Has Less Certainty |
Panjiva Daily: HMM’s first order of business; Mercosur-EU gains far from fruition |
Fake Trade Wars – June 2019 in 10 Reports |
3Q 2019 Policy Outlook: Change is The Only Constant |
Monday, July 01, 2019
Glen Falls NY, Far from Falling, Leads U.S. Metro-Level Import Growth |
Panjiva Daily: Trump, Xi wind the clock back to 2017; Chile’s copper challenges |
Dramatic Drop in South Korean Trade Includes DRAMs and Phones |
Bring Me The Horizon – The Road Ahead for Asian Supply Chains |
Kyocera Aims to Attach Tariffs to Competitors as Trade Complaints Dip |
HMM Joins THE Alliance, First Order of Business Will Be Securing Customers |
VW, Nestle Unlikely to Make Major Changes With Mercosur-EU Deal Far From Done |
Coordinated Sentiment Downturn Bodes Ill For Global Trade Outlook |
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: New Balance Worried Tariffs May Leave It Off Balance |
G20 Wrap: Trump, Xi Wind The Clock Back to 2018, or Even 2017 |
Hoegh Puts Past Behind It, Brings Ford Onboard |
Codelco Ends Copper Strike After Losing Out to BHP in April |
Friday, June 28, 2019
Panjiva Daily: “Made in America” Isn’t Just “Made by Americans”; Maersk aims for the heartland |
DB Schenker Left on The Shelf After Less Than Barnstorming Performance |
SQM, Rockwood’s Lithium Operations Face Technological and Market Challenges |
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: LG, Electrolux Tariff Outcomes Show American Doesn’t Mean American |
Panjiva Daily: G20 special – Trump’s agenda may bring good news for Japanese chemicals |
Johnson, Hunt and Trump Hold Keys to Germany’s Export Order Collapse |
Surging U.S. Trade Deficit Provides Tailwind For Hawks |
Ocean’s Blank Sailings May Be A Template For Trade War Shipping Patterns |
Maersk Aims For Stronger Pulse in The Heartlands |
American Autos Light Up Mexican Trade While Energy Dims |
Trade War Rules the Trans-Pacific Waves – S&P Global Platts Container Update, June 2019 |
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Panjiva Daily: FedEx faces China risk doubler-header; China has no monopoly on Hasbro sourcing |
Maersk Spots An Opportunity to Chase CMA-CGM’s Service Innovation |
FedEx Faces China Risk Double-Header as Profit Margins Wane |
Strike Risk Reduced in Vancouver, Cutting West Coast Congestion Risks |
G20 Watch: Sumitomo, Konica Could Get Trade Deal Kickstart From Trump-Abe Meet |
G20 Watch: Trump-Xi Meet The Last Chance for a Next Chance |
G20 Watch: Indian Oil Could Lubricate Trump-Modi Talks |
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Shell, Cheniere Positioned to Deliver AMLO’s Gas Promise |
Tariff Quote Watch: China Has No Monopoly on Hasbro Supplies, Which Need Time to Transform |
Panjiva Daily: The road ahead for Asian supply chains; Hormuz risks for food as sanctions widen |
Most Coordinated Export Downturn Since 2012 is More Evidence for Trade Recession |
Tesla, Daimler Follow Legalistic Road to Tariff Mitigation |
Monday, June 24, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: EDF, Power Generators Could Lose from Uranium Quotas |
Panjiva Daily: The trade war’s impact on economic development; Giant stages tariff breakaway |
G20 Watch: Weaker Exports Raise Pressure on Abe To Deliver Deals |
Hapag-Lloyd May Get New Capacity Addition Round Underway |
Almarai, Shin Etsu Exposed to Hormuz as Trump’s Sanctions Widen |
Atlas Copco, Suzano May Face Disruption From MSC’s Drug Bust |
Sunday, June 23, 2019
SeaTac Slows, Rules Change With Seasonal Surge Soon |
Tariff Quote Watch: Giant Stages Tariff Breakaway, Followed by Cannondale and Trek |
Jake’s Fireworks Could Fizzle If Trump’s Tariffs Take Off |
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Panjiva Daily: The trade recession beckons; Roku needs Foxconn to go back to the future |
H&M Threads More Bangladeshi Apparel Into Its Supply Chain Ahead of Export Support |
Kicking Away The Development Ladder – The Trade War’s Long Term Impact |
Monday, June 17, 2019
Vestas, Siemens’ Tax Credit Gust Still Outshone by Solar |
Tariff Quote Watch: Roku Needs to See Back to The Future Strategy From Foxconn |
Panjiva Daily: Sumitomo pulls plug on China, moves to Vietnam; Konica copies a strategy |
Swift, Tyson May Welcome Increased Stake in EU Beef Market |
Olam Sweetens Cocoa Imports as Cartel Carries Trump-Baiting Risks |
Trade Recession Beckons as Policy Uncertainty Worsens |
Sunday, June 16, 2019
India’s Emerging Trade Fight with U.S. Could Threaten Export Growth |
Fanuc Powers Down as Industrial Robot Orders Fall |
Evergreen Rides High on The Ocean, Tariffs Could Break The Crest |
Friday, June 14, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Konica-Minolta Needs to Copy Printer Strategy |
Hong Kong Intervention Could Hurt Graco and Mattel |
Panjiva Daily: Six strategies to tackle tariffs; how Hong Kong could hurt the holidays |
Sumitomo, Yazaki Pull the Plug on China By Switching Supplies to Vietnam |
Thursday, June 13, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Volex Less Involved in China, Competitors Already Out |
Panjiva Daily: Trade war roadmap from S-301 to PRC-70; HD Supply’s supply chain change |
Brexit Watch: Prime Minister the Primary Problem as Import Panic Subsides |
Tariff Income Drops, Reflecting Lower Imports and Possible Burden Sharing |
Exporters Swallow A Quarter of Tariff Costs as U.S. Trade Price Deflation Accelerates |
Volkswagen Leads Faster Mexican Auto Exports, Tariff Risks Remain |
A Tale of Three Cities as Long Beach’s Malaise Holds California Back |
Accelerating The Inevitable – Six Corporate Approaches to Tackling Tariffs |
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Panjiva Daily: ArcelorMittal pays the steel price; Hon Hai’s Apple relocation offer |
ArcelorMittal, Tenaris Pay The Steel Price as Trump’s Tariffs Mostly Deliver |
K+N, CH Robinson Step Back as Consolidators Dominate Freight Growth |
Tariff Quote Watch: HD Supply’s Supply Chain May Need Restructuring If Price Rises Fail |
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Huawei hangs over Mexico-U.S. relations; choppy U.S. trade as tariffs weigh |
Long Beach Lags After Cosco Cuts Container Shipping |
Red Bull Loses Its Wings, Dragging Norfolk’s European Business Down |
Philippine Chip Rebound Can’t Prevent Asian Export Fall in April |
Hon Hai Could Bring China Phone Exports Lower to Help Apple |
Tariffs Haven’t Hurt Cheniere and Dominion While China Needs Northern Exposure |
Monday, June 10, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s Mexican tariff risk isn’t over; China wins in May |
SeaLand Sets Sail with Hispaniola Service, Adds Choice for Gildan, Hanesbrands |
Bigger May Have Made Panama Canal Better |
Ford’s Transit Connect Will Carry Heavier Tariff Load |
Xbox Scarlett Timing Means Videogame Imports May Be In The Red in 2019 |
Seaborne Trade Choppy as Tariffs Weigh, Vietnam Gains from China |
USMCA Watch: Huawei in Mexico Could Be Base for Next Trump Tariff Threat |
Sunday, June 09, 2019
Schlumberger, PepsiCo Face Venezuela War Risk Costs |
China Wins The Trade Battle in May, Looks For New Weapons |
Saturday, June 08, 2019
USMCA Watch: Samsung, Sony Face 90 Day Migration Delivery Risk |
Friday, June 07, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Brown Forman’s taste of tariffs; American Axle’s duties drive costs |
Tariff Quote Watch: Guess? Is Sure It Can Tackle Duties, Yet to Make Its Move |
Logistics Jobs Growth Could Tip Over as Trade War Takes Its Toll |
Platinum the Next Playground for Security-Related Trade Policy |
Thursday, June 06, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Brown Forman Has a Taste of What Becle, Bacardi Can Expect |
Panjiva Daily: Chipotle wraps tariffs into prices; Jabil provides a Mexican tariff gauge |
Canada Pays the Price for China Spat Yet Remains Robust |
Trump Wins By Losing Less Against China in Trade War’s Ninth Month |
Wider Trade Deficit Gives Trump Reason to Stay Hawkish With Mexico, EU |
Tariff Quote Watch: American Axle Sees Mexican Tariffs Driving Up Costs |
Tariff Quote Watch: Cummins Has Manifold Tariff Risks, Including Mexico |
Wednesday, June 05, 2019
Samsung Joins Foxconn In Dialling Back Chinese Phone Production |
Panjiva Daily: Nestlé needs to brew a tariff strategy; LG Electronics heats up localization strategy |
JBS, Marfrig May Struggle to Round Up Beef Sales in China |
BorgWarner Avoids Need To Assimilate Bearing Tariff Costs |
Jabil, Landis+Gyr Meter Shipments May Provide Gauge of Mexico Tariff Impact |
Tariff Quote Watch: Mexican Tariffs Can’t Be Avoided, But Turmoil Can Be Bypassed |
Toyota Raises Red Tariff Flag for Mexican Exports While U.S. Sales Slip |
Tariff Quote Watch: Chipotle to Wrap Mexican Tariffs into Higher Prices |
Tuesday, June 04, 2019
India’s Post-Election Policies May Need to Focus on China, Not U.S. |
Trade Complaints Tabled as China Tariffs Take Toll on Ikea’s Imports |
Nestle Needs a Robust Response to Mexican Coffee Tariff Risk |
LG Electronics May Need to Heat Up Localization Strategy as Tariffs Widen |
Panjiva Daily: Refiners could lose under Trump’s new tariffs; Noble stitches up cotton |
Monday, June 03, 2019
Panjiva Daily: The costs of Trump’s tariff wall; Fedex in China’s firing line |
Trade War Redux, Forwarders’ Fight – May 2019 in 10 Reports |
Tesoro, Valero Could be Indirect Losers from Trump’s Mexican Tariffs |
Noble Stitches Up the Market As U.S. Cotton Exports Wither |
Better Sentiment Doesn’t Mean World Trade Will Get Better |
May Aids Container-Lines as Rates Stabilize, Fuel Falls |
Technology Trade Drags South Korean Exports Down for Sixth Straight Month |
Sunday, June 02, 2019
FedEx in the Firing Line of China’s New Trade War Weapon |
Friday, May 31, 2019
Trump Erects Tariffs to Bolster the Mexico Wall |
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Stevedores tempt Bolsonaro’s wrath; Toyota leads tariff criticism |
Vale’s Dam Disaster – Market, Supply Chain, Pricing and Corporate Impacts |
China’s Semiconductor Prospects Could Be Helped By Trade Conflict Push |
Savannah Brews Up New Connections to Serve Anheuser Busch |
CMA-CGM’s Rebound Illusory, Restructuring of Routes Necessary |
Worst Export Drop Under Trump Could Be Down to Tariff Push |
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Pioneer finds tariff relief; Kyocera copies Ricoh’s strategy |
Shipbuilding Renaissance Not Widespread, Faces Trade Conflict Risk |
Toyota Leads Tariff Criticism as Japan’s Auto Exports Lose Drive |
Scrap Exports Set for Second Round of Crushing On New China Rules |
Stevedores Tempt Bolsonaro’s Wrath, Raising Risks for Hyundai, VW |
Norfolk May Court Subaru, Toyota For Midwest Expansion Goal |
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Maersk’s spreading trade conflict; CH Robinson’s bolt-on in Italy |
Trump and Abe Should Wrestle With Cars, Not Relations, to Reach a Meaningful Deal |
Brexit Watch: May Gone in June, Deal Needs to Fall Into Place by October |
Kyocera, Sharp Copy Ricoh in Offsetting Printer Production From China |
Pioneer Finds Optical Drive Exemption, Most Others Less Lucky |
New Plastic Waste Rules Lead Shippers to Scrap Supply Chain Plans |
Seaboard Faces Stiff Competition from Maersk, Crowley on New Routes |
Walmart, Dollarama Face Risk of Disruption from Vancouver Strikes |
Monday, May 27, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Maersk Sees Trade Conflict Spreading; Danish Discipline Needed |
CH Robinson Sticks to Its Bolt-on Strategy in Italy as China Freight Wanes |
Sunday, May 26, 2019
Mexico’s Trade Success Brings Risk of Trump’s Ire |
Friday, May 24, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Retailers to pass on Trump’s tariffs; Lenovo may shift from China to Mexico |
Magenta Canary of China Tariff Drag May Leave Retailers With Shipping Needs |
World Trade Recovery in March Will Prove Fleeting |
Tariff Quote Watch: Lenovo May Follow Competitors With China-to-Mexico Switch |
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Panjiva Daily: UPS, CH Robinson start to struggle; Hikvision set for sanctions |
Scrapping of Tariffs May Help U.S. Scrap Steel Exports to Mexico |
Nokian Looks to Inflate Prospects in Shifting Tire Market |
U.S. Trade Deficit Likely Buoyed Up By Ocean Freight Imbalance in April |
ONE’s First in Seattle After Shaking Off Chaotic 2018 |
Tariff Quote Watch: Retailers Aim to Make Consumers Pay for Trump’s New Tariffs |
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Hikvision Set for Sanctions After Imports Hacked Back by Tariffs |
Dole Crushed as Bumper Indian Grape Harvest Heads to Europe |
Rare Earths May Become Rarer if China Applies Retaliatory Leverage |
Drug Supply Chains Get More Sophisticated as CMA-CGM Launches New Service |
UPS, CH Robinson Already Struggling as New Round of Forwarder Competition Arrives |
Meat Deal Could Quell Trump’s Beef With Japanese Exports |
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Swift, Tyson’s pork no longer pressed by steel; Evonik, Dow in a bind |
Singapore Sings a Sadder Song as Asian Exports Lower The Tone |
Shoemakers Face Unpleasant Trip If Tariff Hikes are Delivered |
Monday, May 20, 2019
USMCA Watch: Relief for Swift and Tyson as Steel No Longer Presses Pork |
Daimler, Toyota Declared National Security Threats as Tariff Leverage Exercised |
Evonik, Dow in a Bind as China Retaliates With Higher Tariff Rates |
Panjiva at 5,000 – The Most Read Research From Our First Three Years |
Sunday, May 19, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Downturn predictions defied; who really pays for President Trump’s tariffs? |
Two Trade Wars, a Rate War and Four Tariff Reactions |
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Maersk Bolsters Suez as Canal Competition Set to Heat Up |
Thursday, May 16, 2019
Trump’s Partly Right on Who Pays as Tariff Burden Sharing Emerges |
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Cosco Pays The China Price as California’s Port Activity Slows |
Monday, May 13, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: GoPro on Track to Shutter China Capacity, Open in Mexico |
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Downturn Predictions Defied as U.S. Imports Spring Up in April |
Friday, May 10, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s tariffs beats Xi’s; Foxconn pulls a plug |
Bean Battle Back in the Field as China Set to React to Higher Tariffs |
Tariff Quote Watch: Foxconn Pulls a Plug on China for Telecoms Gear Due to Tariffs |
Thursday, May 09, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s car tariffs versus EU farmers – the next big trade war |
Nucor May Be Crushed if Nippon Steel Can Lift Heavy Plate Tariffs |
Hapag Lloyd’s Success Not All It Seems, But Still Solid |
Solar Power Lights Up as Tariffs Become Business-as-Usual |
Toyota May Hope for Clearer Roads With Argentine Tax Break |
Trump’s Tariffs Proved More Effective Than Xi’s in March |
Deficit Data Details Vindicate Trump’s Trade Policy, Despite Overall Increase |
Wednesday, May 08, 2019
Panjiva Daily: China loses the April trade battle; Ternium bucks the Mexico metals trend |
China Lost The April Trade Battle, Faces Regional Export Slowdown |
Tesla Sees Battery Supplies Falling as Cobalt Feels the Blues |
The Next Big Trade War: Trump’s Car Tariffs versus Europe’s Farmers |
China’s Unpleasant Surprise Has Roots in Autos, Telecoms |
Tuesday, May 07, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Why Trump has reheated the tariff rhetoric; corporate reactions to tariffs |
Pernod Ricard’s Jameson’s Takes a Proper Beating From Conor McGregor’s No. 12 |
Mastronardi Sprouts New Growth as Tariffs Plague Tomatoes |
USMCA Watch: Closure Not Close as Mexico’s Steel, Aluminum Exports Plummet |
Vale Heads Rapidly Downhill as Exports Hit Low |
5.2x Bigger Exemption Problem Looms as List 3 Tariff Hike Approaches |
Port Ownership Shuffle Continues as Singaporean Money Arrives |
Monday, May 06, 2019
Trump’s Tariff Threat Has Roots in Short-Lived Deficit Dip as Well as China Talks |
Tariff Quote Watch: Brooks To Run Production from Vietnam Ahead of Duty Risks |
Sunday, May 05, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Electrical Engineers’ Tariff Worries Getting Charged Up |
Friday, May 03, 2019
Panjiva Daily: CH Robinson moves less, delivers more; tequila-fuelled Cinco de Mayo ahead |
Logistics Jobs Grow for 105 Months, Trade Slowdown a Threat |
Under Armour’s HOVR Can’t Stop Slippage in Sales, Imports |
Thursday, May 02, 2019
Panjiva Daily: 28 events that shaped the U.S.-China trade war; CAP’s capitalizes on steel strength |
Borders, Jet Threats and Oil Waivers – April 2019 in 10 Reports |
U.S. Auto Sales Stuck in Reverse, Imports Suggest More Backing Up to Come |
Tequila-Fuelled Cinco de Mayo On Track as Border Threats Prove Empty |
Alpek May Beat Reliance as Yarn Supply Chains Are Rewoven |
CH Robinson Moves Fewer Boxes, Delivers Better Margins |
Three-Year Low in U.S. Export Sentiment Adds Momentum to Trade Slowdown |
Wednesday, May 01, 2019
Panjiva Daily: DSV’s quest for scale pays off; Voestalpine takes flight |
CAP Capitalizes on Steel Strength to Expand Exports |
War and (Nearly) Peace – 28 Events in the U.S.-China Trade Conflict |
Better Rates Don’t Mean Better Conditions for Shipping Lines in April |
ONE’S Terminal Restructuring Overdue But Still Necessary |
Canada’s Container Congestion Restrained, Montreal Tackles Trucking |
Semis Receive Support as South Korea’s Exports Slip Once More |
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Grassley’s steel rule for USMCA; Chile’s lithium prices and volumes drop |
Sweet Opportunity for Lanxess, Arkema as U.S. Readies Glycine Duties |
Antidumping Case Backlog Only Building Slowly as Tile and Cherry Complaints Arrive |
Voestalpine Takes Flight While Being Aware of Bumpy Landing |
DSV’s Quest for Scale Pays Off, Slowdown May Lie Ahead |
Chewy’s Imports Scamper Ahead On Pet Bedding, Food Growth |
China’s Export Sentiment Improving Thanks to Chips, But Still Negative |
Monday, April 29, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Electrolux, Whirlpool reach end of cycle; impact of Japan’s holiday on autos |
“Endgame” Ends Avengers’ Imports on a High as Star Wars Fades, But Still Rules |
General Motors and General Electric Face Generally Higher Costs from Hoegh |
USMCA Watch: Grassley Draws a Steel Rule for Ratification That May Break The Deal |
Lithium Price, Output Drop in Chile No Deterrent To China Joint Venture |
Bright Opening For Container-Lines Isn’t Necessarily Good For All |
Tariff Quote Watch: Cooper Set To Tread on Tire Tariff Costs, From 2020 |
Sunday, April 28, 2019
Neste Supply Chain Situation Fluid as Venezuela Sanctions Bite |
Resin Opportunity Resonates with G&W, Chevron Phillips |
Toyota, Nissan Growth Face Imperial Holiday, Trump-Abe Talks Uncertainty |
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Kim May Find Future Will “Entirely Depend” On Chinese Trade, Not U.S. Attitudes |
Friday, April 26, 2019
Panjiva Daily: K+N on the up, UPS down; iRobot pursues price rises |
Blame Oil, Mazda for Mexico’s First Trade Decline in Nearly Two Years |
Tariff Quote Watch: Electrolux and Whirlpool Reach End of the Duty Cycle |
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Posco’s positivity at risk; Husqvarna cuts through trade troubles |
Jones Act Waiver Could Cut Pressure On New England Gas Markets |
K+N Volumes and Margins On The Up, UPS Heads Down |
Sentiment Sinks to 2012 Lows in Germany as New U.S. Tariffs Loom |
Brexit Watch: Netgear Geared Up For No-Deal Exit, Orders Could Reverse |
Tariff Quote Watch: iRobot Pursues Price Rises, Needs Room for Diversification |
Tariff Quote Watch: Varian’s Various Devices for Offsetting Duties Yet To Bear Fruit |
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s Hog Help; Marathon’s Hormuz Replacement Race |
LG Electronics Hangs Up on South Korea, Calls on Vietnamese Factory |
Scrap Supply Chain Set For Another Shakeup as China Reviews Rules |
Iran Sanctions Could Take Toll on Indian Rice, Drug Exports |
Posco’s Positive Position on Steel Outlook at Risk From U.S. Trade Policies |
Ports’ Storm Over in March, U.S. Trade Deficit Hike Possible |
Tariff Quote Watch: Husqvarna Cuts Through Trade War Troubles With Supply Switching |
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Iran waiver effects for Valero, ExxonMobil; WTO helps ADM with grains |
Tariff Quote Watch: Alcoa Worries About Quotas, Industry Concerns About Tariffs Wane |
Brazil’s Sweet Corn Outlook May Sour Export Opportunities For U.S. Farmers |
Trump’s Hog Help Could Hurt KTM, Volkswagen |
Wilmington Will Grow, If ZIM Can Find New Customers |
Komatsu, Not Volvo, May Be The Future For Wallenius Wilhelmsen |
Marathon Faces Race for Replacement Oil if Hormuz Straits Close |
Monday, April 22, 2019
Valero, ExxonMobil Face Knock On Effects from Iran Waiver Removal |
JM Smucker Takes a Bigger Gulp as Brazil’s Coffee Overflows |
Home Depot, Ikea Store More Cabinets as U.S. Builds Case |
Archer Daniels Midland Could Be Helped by China Grain Buy After WTO Ruling |
Friday, April 19, 2019
Saudi Weapons Order Shortage Has Yet To Cut Deliveries |
Panjiva Daily: Bouncing beans and Tesla tariffs; Daimler and VW’s tough USMCA choices |
USMCA Watch: Daimler, VW Face Tough Choices as ITC Report Flags Autos Upheaval |
Empty Heart of U.S. Container Growth Soon to Skip a Beat |
Empties and New Routes Drive SeaTac’s Continued Growth |
Great British Bounce Can’t Stop EU or Global Export Decline in February |
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Canal Competition Continues as Panama Relaxes Restrictions |
Panjiva Daily: Deere pays the price for retaliation; Caterpillar gets an exemption |
Panalpina Growth Parked Ahead of DSV Scale Push |
USMCA Watch: Tangible Gains May Be Beaten by Tariff Politics |
Shipbuilding’s Still Sinking at Start of 2019 |
Bouncing Beans and Tesla Help U.S. Win the February Trade Battle |
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Deere Pays The Price as EU Gets Its Retaliation in Early |
Panjiva Daily: K+N’s pledge could become a commitment; Skechers runs more from Vietnam |
Japan’s Electronics Trade Slips Ahead of Coronation Holiday Disruptions |
Caterpillar Gets Tariff Exemption, Won’t Lift The Business |
Trump’s Trade Deficit Success Could Prove Short-Lived |
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Europe’s aerospace and oil firepower; the brewing China-U.S. trade deal |
Two-Speed Export Economy Apparent as India’s Exports Rebound |
USMCA Watch: Mexican Metals Demand May Become Another Ratification Hurdle |
Brazillian Butchers JBS, BRF May Be Helped By China Meet-Up |
K+N’s Pledge Could Lead to a Commitment with Hapag-Lloyd |
Trump’s $57.6 Billion Tariff Take Has Peaked, For Now |
Skechers, Adidas Could Run More From Vietnam With New Oakland Service |
Monday, April 15, 2019
ONE Tops The Chart in Norfolk as China Traffic Collapses |
Europe’s Aerospace and Oil Firepower May Beat the U.S. In a Tariff Battle |
Distillers Grain Case Indicates China-U.S. Trade Deal Nearly Brewed |
China’s Export Bounce Belies Telecoms Weakness Even as Semis Shine |
Houston Heads Higher on Mexican Shipments, MSC Does Best |
Friday, April 12, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Evergreen grows, ZIM wilts; Wacker could be whacked by trade war |
China’s Trade Recovery Not All Good News With Imports Down, U.S. Exports Up |
California Recovers as China Loses Its Crown, Exports Slump |
Price Deflation Points To Chinese Exporters Taking Some Tariff Pain |
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Panjiva Daily: DSV dominates forwarders’ growth; tariff war could choke off wine supplies |
U.S. Fishers Could Catch More Korean Customers As Tariffs Take a Bite Out Of Exports |
Cars Set to Drive U.S.-Japan Talks as National Security Worries Weigh |
Wacker Neuson Set To Be Whacked By Tariffs in New EU-U.S. Trade War |
Evergreen Grows Despite China Decline as ZIM’s Momentum Wilts |
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Lessons from 6 months of trade war; Britain’s last chance for another chance |
Brexit Watch: British Trade Surges as Last Chance for Another Chance Beckons |
Asia Exports Dropped in February, Little Hope Elsewhere in the World |
Brexit Watch: Slower Release Formula, Pharma Supply Chains Still At Risk |
Kinder Morgan To Boost Flow As Mexican Gas Demand Blows Up |
New Tariff War Could Choke Off LVMH, Oetker Wine Supplies to U.S. |
MSC and Hapag-Lloyd’s Texas Growth to be Held Back By Shipping Restriction |
DSV Dominates Forwarder Growth With European Wind and Luxury Goods Push |
Tuesday, April 09, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s jet leverage attempt; the remarkable resilience of U.S. imports |
Trump’s Jet Leverage Attempt May Cause EU Talks To Crash |
Lumber Case Lumbers On, U.S. Wins at WTO |
ZIM Shipping Steams Back to Seattle With Retail Opportunity |
Panama Canal May Be Feeling First Twinges of China Tariff Pain |
New York Suffers China Slump, Most Seaports See Early Spring Bounce |
Six Months Into the U.S.-China Trade War Supply Chain Shifts Have Started |
Monday, April 08, 2019
The Remarkable Resilience of America’s Demand for Imports |
SQM, Albemarle May Switch To Lithium Output, not Price Maximization |
Growth Deserts Hapag-Lloyd as Savannah Surges |
Sunday, April 07, 2019
Time To Consider Port-o-Mation as Employment Growth Improves |
Thursday, April 04, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s troubles for Foxconn, Flextronics; DP-DHL’s bet on Charleston |
Steel Wars – South Korea Sours on Europe as U.S. Duty Effect Widens |
Auto Industry’s Descent Gathers Pace as New Tariffs Beckon |
CMA-CGM’s Santos Switch Follows Reduced Flows |
Wednesday, April 03, 2019
Intel’s Platform Shift May Be a Response To U.S.-China Tariff War |
Panjiva Daily: All Brexit options still open as supply chain surge starts; Intel’s platform shift |
Boston’s Been Growing as Harbor Spending Plan Gathers Pace |
Brexit Watch: All Options Open, Supply Chains’ Surge Starts |
Liverpool Tops The League as Peel Pulls a Fifth Liner In |
Brazil’s Iron Ore and Soybean Downturn Needs Panama To Dig In |
Deutsche Post-DHL Bets on Charleston as Port’s Growth Slows |
The Top U.S. Ports in 2018 – LA Holds Its Crown While New York Plays The Usurper |
Foxconn, Flextronics Face Transit Troubles if Trump Closes Mexican Border |
Tuesday, April 02, 2019
Pre-Trump Era Lows in Export Sentiment Shows Potency of Global Slowdown |
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s border threat to food supply chains; China’s tariff leniency |
Tariff Threat Drains Chinese Keg Exports, Others Fill The Gap |
Dumping Investigation Calls Subdued, Steel Rods Caned After Case Launch |
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in March 2019 |
Monday, April 01, 2019
Shipping’s Tough First Quarter Sees Rates Down, Costs Up |
DSV Delivers a Panalpina Deal That’s Largely About Scale |
China’s Tariff Leniency Supports Talks And U.S. Automakers |
Trump’s Border Threat Raises Stakes For Food Supply Chains |
Cosco Shipping’s Rebound May Just Be A Bounce |
China’s Sentiment Swallow Does Not Make A Cyclical Spring |
Chips Chip Away At South Korea’s Export Performance in March |
Friday, March 29, 2019
Panjiva Daily: PC industry bears the brunt of tariffs; Lululemon leaps ahead |
Arms Trade Risks for U.S.-China Deal As Taiwan Makes Tanks And Jets Bid |
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trump starting to win the tariff war; Mexican growth supports USMCA passage |
Barge Based Drayage Comes to Charleston, Not Good For Everyone |
Europe’s The Sick Old Man of World Trade As Americas Stay Healthy |
Tesla Faces Subsidy Challenges Today, Retaliatory Duties Tomorrow |
Pemex Brings Balance To The U.S. Oil Industry Despite AMLO’S Policies |
China’s PC Industry Bears The Brunt Of January’s Trade Defeat |
Lululemon Leaps Ahead, Achieves Balance With Youngone |
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Electrolux Restructuring Has Few Options For Avoiding China |
Panjiva Daily: Hutchison’s Ensenada expansion; Savannah’s portent of U.S. trade weakness |
Tariff Quote Watch: Winnebago Sales Lose Drive as Tariff Cost Pass-Through Bites |
Canada’s Solid Growth Belies U.S., China Trade Relations Issues |
USMCA Watch: Mexico’s Trade Growth Supportive for Passage |
Trump’s China Position May Be Emboldened as Tariff Policy Starts To “Work” |
Brazilian Shipping Faces a Slowdown, Cosco Doing Better Than Maersk |
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
World Trade’s Slippage About To Become a Slide |
Panjiva Daily: Steelworkers against USMCA; Orient Overseas’ Long Beach exit |
Canada’s Canola Farmers Pay The Price for Huawei Spat |
Michelin’s Rubber Supply Chain Faces Thai Election Disruption |
USMCA Watch: Pharma Pricing Issues Add To The Pile Of Passage Problems |
Mexico Starts Safeguard Steps As Steel Shipments Surge |
Hutchison’s Ensenada Expansion Could Attract Samsung, Jatco Volumes |
Savannah’s Slide a Portent of Worsening U.S. Trade Performance |
Europe’s Export Outlook Slumps In The Face of Brexit, Tariffs |
Monday, March 25, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s $19.9B tariff haul; Musk’s crushers, Crane’s pumps exempted |
North Korea Normalization Dims As China’s $2 Billion Trade Surplus Persists |
Hyundai May Move More Through Mobile Once Access Improves |
Orient Overseas Readies to Sell Long Beach, CMA-CGM Could Get More Involved |
USMCA Watch: Union Against Ratification as Canadian Steel Heads to Mexico |
Sunday, March 24, 2019
Trump’s $19.9B Tariff Haul Could Be Dwarfed By Extra China, Autos Duties |
Crane’s Pumps, Elon Musk’s Crushers Win From Latest Round of Tariff Exemptions |
Friday, March 22, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trade policy in 2Q19; GM extends its bet on Brazil |
USMCA Watch: Tariff Risks Stalk Tomatoes, Mean Deal Will Pass at a Later Date |
ZIM Volumes Set To Zoom, Profits Zapped By Lease Payments |
Tariff Quote Watch: Williams Sonoma Ready For The Worst as Furniture Tips Over |
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Fedex hopes versus sliding exports; Vietnam wins the U.S.-China trade war |
General Motors Extends Its Bet on Brazil as Mexican Opportunity Emerges |
North Beats South as West Coast Port Activity Falls |
2Q19 Policy Outlook: Traveling Without Moving, Six Deals to Watch |
Solar Power Imports Dim After Tariffs, Washing Machines Spin Upwards |
Charleston’s Party Near an End as Kent, Komatsu Imports Slide |
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Fedex’s European Growth Hopes Defy Two Months of Sliding Exports |
Panjiva Daily: Fedex trades growth for profits; supply chain risks from Norsk Hydro’s hack |
Fabricated Steel Case May Build Up USMCA Risks |
Mexico-Brazil Free Trade Deal Provides Ford, GM With Alternatives Beyond USMCA |
Vietnam May Be Winning the U.S.-China Trade War |
Houston Has A Problem as Traffic Drops, Fire Rages |
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
MSC and Maersk Address Lone Star’s State of Service as CMA-CGM Takes Share |
Panjiva Daily: California’s port volume crash; Norway model for Brexit with Norway |
Brexit Watch: Norway May Not Be The Model For a Norway Style Exit |
ONE Beats 2M As Norfolk Bucks The National Downward Import Trend |
Fedex Focuses on Profitability as Revenue Growth Slows |
Perdue’s Problematic Purchase Plan Needs China to Buy All Its Beans From The U.S. |
Brexit Watch: Bercow’s Ruling Raises Risks, Preparatory Imports Increased |
Norsk Hydro Hack Might Cut Into Aluminum Supply Chains |
Monday, March 18, 2019
U.S. Demand Could Paper Over Chinese Cracks in Brazilian Wood-Pulp Supplies |
Google’s Stream Could Flood Nintendo’s Slowing Console Shipments |
Panjiva Daily: Trump-Bolsanaro summit’s harvest potential; Starbucks loses its taste for Brazil |
Boeing Max Problem May Minimize Aerospace Element of U.S.-China Deal |
Bad Start For Shipping Means Continued Bad Luck For Shipyards |
California’s Crashed Volumes Come from Machinery, Furniture Import Slump |
Japan’s Trade Downturn Confirms Asia Electronics Problems |
Sunday, March 17, 2019
Trump-Bolsanaro Summit Could Yield Rich Harvest for Wheat Exporters |
Toyota Takes Advantage of USMCA, Aims to Avoid Section 232 Tariffs |
Tariff Quote Watch: Tariff Discussions Subside as Brexit Worries Rise |
Friday, March 15, 2019
Brazilian Coffee Perks Up, Starbucks Loses Its Taste |
Healthcare Helps, Electronics Hinder India’s Trade Activity |
Panjiva Daily: Brexit brink blown back; alliances matter more than competition |
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Panjiva Daily: DSV diversifies, leads forwarders; 979 lines of Brexit tariff defense |
Tariff Leniency Request Backlog Could Jump to 35 Months |
Pemex Joint Venture Delay Could Exacerbate Mexico’s Oil Export Downturn |
Brexit Watch: Brink Blown Back, Port Capacity Shouldn’t Be A Problem |
CMA-CGM Secures Ceva Majority, Closer Coordination Has Already Started |
Alliances Matter More Than Competition as Container Freight Activity Dips |
Chinese Exporters Shoulder U.S. Tariff Burden With Further Price Cuts |
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Malmstrom’s 6.1B euro Brexit threat; Lighthizer’s door to a steel deal |
DSV Diversifies Shipping Volumes to Lead Forwarders in February |
New York Looks to Cement Gains with Portland, Wilmington Barge Service |
Brexit Watch: 979 Lines of Tariff Defense Include Apparel and Autos |
BP’s New Fuels Carry Significant Costs for Shipping Lines |
Adidas Predicts Supply Chain Challenges, Leans Harder on Vietnam |
USMCA Watch: Late Ratification Could Lead to Autos Industry Tariff Bedlam |
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Panjiva Daily: February’s U.S. trade surprises; winning the steel tariff relief race |
USMCA Watch: Lighthizer’s Open Door to Steel Tariff Reform Could Unlock a Deal |
Nissan Proves to Not Have Infiniti Patience for U.K. Production |
Brexit Watch: Malmstrom’s 6.1 Billion Euro Threat Hits Autos, Apparel Hardest |
Panama Canal Shrugs Off Trans-Pacific Shipping Slowdown |
Everglades Dries Up as U.S. Port Activity Slows |
Sunday, March 10, 2019
Slow and Steady Wins The Race for Steel Tariff Relief |
Brazil Sour on Indian Sugar Subsidies After Shipments Slump |
China and Tariffs Aren’t the Surprise in February’s U.S. Import Performance |
Friday, March 08, 2019
Stevedores Win With Employment Growth As Ports Cure Congestion |
Blame Consumers and Holidays for China’s Export Downturn |
Thursday, March 07, 2019
Panjiva Daily: President Trump’s $17 billion China trade deal driver; tariff exemption failures |
Ikea Builds Cabinet Imports as Pre-Emptive Dumping Case Arrives |
Supply Chains Show The Power of Tariff Fear as December Imports Surge |
Deutsche Post DHL Leads Forwarders in Prioritizing Profitability Over Growth |
Panjiva Daily: The power of tariff fear; Deutsche Post DHL leaders forwarders’ 4Q |
China’s Export Slump Partly Seasonal, Leaves U.S. a Trade War Winner |
Tariff Quote Watch: Volvo May Not Hoist Flag for Polestar If Tariffs Are Wrong |
Tariff Quote Watch: Brown-Forman Jacks Up Cost Cutting to Offset Lower EU Sales |
Wednesday, March 06, 2019
Canada’s Export Slowdown Completes Global Downturn Picture |
Customs Duties and Early Warnings Show U.S. Import Growth Has Continued |
Tariff Exemption Failure May Be The Least of BorgWarner, Denso’s Concerns |
Panjiva Daily: Squeezing Sumitomo’s sponge; 60% of engineers talk tariff, Brexit risks |
The $17 Billion, 4Q Reason For Trump To Reach a Trade Deal With China |
Tariff Quote Watch: Manitou Handles Burden From Duties as Profitability Rises |
Tariff Quote Watch: Breville Avoids Getting Burned By Using Front-Loading |
Tuesday, March 05, 2019
Malmstrom-Lighthizer Talks Have No Easy Answers, Especially For Cars |
Hog and Wheat Farmers Lose, But China’s Not a Big Deal For Iowa as a Whole |
Brexit Watch: Irish Pharma Risks Already Dissipating as Supply Chains Adapt |
Jacking Up Jacksonville’s Handling Needs Major Investment, Big New Customers |
Sumitomo’s Sponge Supplies Face Squeeze as National Security Case Launched |
Tariff Quote Watch: Rotork Joins 60% of Engineers Talking Tariff, Brexit Risks |
Monday, March 04, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s $8.4 billion agriculture ask; CMA-CGM calls for cost cutting |
Panjiva Daily: Stormy February for container-lines; Orient Overseas cuts services |
Daimler and Heineken May See Disruption from CMA-CGM’s Slipped Sailing |
Orient Overseas’ Service Trim Says More About Competition Than Demand |
U.S. Auto Sales Accelerate in Reverse, Imports Out of Favor |
SQM Squeezes Lithium Market, Chinese Buyers Lose Out |
Volkswagen’s Good News for Baltimore May Come At Houston’s Expense |
Stormy February Leaves Container Profitability At November Lows |
Sunday, March 03, 2019
CMA-CGM Draws on Cost Cutting as Well as Ceva For Future Growth |
Trump’s $8.4 Billion Agricultural Ask Will Have to Wait for an Answer |
Dumping Complaints Increase, Government Won’t Spare The Rod |
Yellowtail Set to Run Dry as Wine Harvest Wilts |
Friday, March 01, 2019
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in February 2019 |
New York Clears Congestion, CH Robinson Powers Through |
Panjiva Daily: Panalpina chooses profits over volumes; Lego rebuilds in North America |
Trade Sentiment Warms in the U.S. While China Shivers |
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Autos crash makes for record deficit; Chinese EVs tackle Tesla and tariffs |
Rapid Rail Routes the Secret to CMA-CGM’s Service Enhancement |
South Korea’s Trade Decline Gathers Pace, Indicates Asian Export Slowdown |
23-Year Low in U.S. Oil Imports May Prove Fleeting |
Canada’s Congestion Continues With Vancouver Facing Squeeze |
Lego Rebuilds Its U.S. Business With Mexican Supply Chain Enhancements |
Australian Exporters Pay The Price for Lack of Carrier Diversity |
Panalpina Chooses Profits Over Volumes, Will Need to Choose a Suitor |
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Corporate tariff worries become Brexit concerns; K+N has a tough end to 2018 |
Tariff Hopes No Use as China’s Business Trade Confidence Slumps to 10-Year Low |
Rail Investment Set to Speed Santiago Produce Exports |
LG Electronics Could Hop Back To South Korea After Washer Tariff Leniency |
China’s EV Makers Have Tariffs as Well as Tesla and GM To Tackle |
Posco and Ternium Trigger Mexican Steel Safeguarding Response |
Mexico’s Trade Acceleration Supports AMLO’s Energy Policy, Reason To Pass USMCA |
Autos Crash Leaves Year End U.S. Trade Deficit At Record High |
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Hapag-Lloyd avoids China risks; Nissan gears up for ROOs; North Korea pressure delivered |
Loads More Weapons Imports As Tighter U.S. Ownership Rules Beckon |
Dole Gains Shipping Options as Norfolk, Va. Grows Its Fruit Business |
K+N’s Tough End to 2018 May Need More Than a Cost Cutting Fix |
Steel Mission Accomplished, But Tariff Armistice Unlikely To Be Declared Yet |
Tariff Quote Watch: Brexit Is The New Tariff As 1-in-4 Firms Talk About Trade |
Tariff Quote Watch: Terex Handles China Duties, Brexit a Bigger Challenge |
Monday, February 25, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Retaliation overshadows EU-U.S. talks; Venezuela’s food needs |
New Route Brings New Opportunities for Afghanistan-India trade |
Hapag-Lloyd Avoids China Risk, Can’t Dodge Fuel Cost Troubles |
Record Inventory Surge Set To Continue As Europe’s Zig Matches China’s Zag |
Tough End to 2018 For Global Trade On Worst Dip Since 2009 |
USMCA Watch: Canada May Not Get There With Steel and Aluminum Duties |
North Korea Trade Pressure Delivered, Trump-Kim Summit Will Show Effectiveness |
USMCA Watch: Nissan Gears Up For New ROOs, Could Shift Supply Chain Further |
Tariff Quote Watch: Kubota Kicks Up Pricing as Steel Costs Plough Into Profits |
Sunday, February 24, 2019
EU’s Ready Retaliation For U.S. Auto Tariffs Bode Ill For Trade Talks Success |
Blame Europe, Not The Trade War, For The Global Export Downturn |
Venezuela’s Reliant on Brazilian Food While Luxury Goods Imports Stay Robust |
Brexit and Autos Tariffs Not Enough To Shake Improving EU Export Confidence |
Roku Revenue Rocks, Hopefully Doesn’t Roll With Tariffs |
Friday, February 22, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Maersk’s uncertain outlook; Mexico’s inflated gas needs; global trade index slips |
Tariff Quote Watch: Altra Shifts Duty Costs to Buyers, May Need to Tap Other Sources |
Thursday, February 21, 2019
China Gives, China Will Take Away From Matson as Profitability Slips |
Panjiva Daily: Tariff leniency leads to higher steel imports; Volkswagen’s worst case scenario |
Big Boats Keep Suez and Panama Growing As Trade Threats Loom |
Global Trade Index Slipped in January, Yet To Slide |
Ocean’s Better, Logistics Worse as Maersk Faces Uncertain Outlook |
Inflated Natural Gas Imports Lead Mexico To Search For New Sources |
Tariff Quote Watch: La-Z-Boy Active in Addressing Duties With Surcharges |
Tariff Quote Watch: Flowserve Streams Duty Hikes To Customers, Can Switch Supplies |
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Tampa’s Growth Set To Continue as CMA-CGM, Cosco Shipping Arrive |
Panjiva Daily: Expeditors’ slowing growth; USMCA-inspired strikes; less exclusive exclusions |
New Year, Same Problems For The Shipbuilding Industry |
Continued U.S. Trade Deficit Growth Likely Based on Maritime, Inflation Data |
Cries for Clemency From Metals Duties Being Answered, Driving Imports Upward |
Tariff Quote Watch: Volkswagen’s Worse-Case Scenario Hinges on Trade Talks Outcome |
Tariff Quote Watch: Cooper Tire Bounces Back After Tariff-Linked Impairment |
Tariff Quote Watch: Genuine Parts Faces Genuine Challenges as Tariff Threats Spread |
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Chipping away at U.S. China tensions; Honda heads back to Japan |
Payless ShoeSource Steps Out of U.S. Retail, Imports Reliant on China |
Ford’s Brazilian Truck Exit The Result of Long Term Demand Decline |
Japan Provides Further Evidence for Slowing Electronics Supply Chains |
Expeditors Faces Slowing Growth, Narrowing Margins |
USMCA Watch: Matamoros Maquiladoras Provide a Taste of Labor Rights Disruptions |
Vale and Ternium Deliver on EU’s Steel Safeguarding Fears |
Exemptions Could Become Less Exclusive, Haven’t Helped Air Liquide |
Monday, February 18, 2019
USMCA Watch: Mexico’s Metals Dispute More About Politics Than Economics |
Shipping Rates Dip After Lunar New Year But Carriers Doing Better in 1Q So Far |
USMCA Watch: Canada Delivers Steel Tariff Cuts for Mexico |
The Price of The Deal – EPA, Not Brexit, Sends Honda Back to Japan |
India Wields the Tariff Stick Against Pakistan as Total Imports Wane |
East Coast Acceleration Points to Wide U.S. Trade Deficit in January |
Sunday, February 17, 2019
Semis Only Small Segment of a Solution to U.S.-China Tensions |
Nintendo Seeks To Level Up as Sony Leads Import Performance |
Friday, February 15, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Panalpina’s Agility defense against DSV; bumps in the road to automotive tariff clarity |
Burden Sharing Evident as Import Price Deflation Gathers Pace |
Tariff Quote Watch: Peak Tariff Worries May Have Passed for Industrial Supply Chains |
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Panalpina Looks to Agility for DSV Defense, No Sprint to Completion |
Panjiva Daily: CH Robinson’s slowdown; Wilhelmsen’s regulatory thicket; Under Armour’s dented |
Vancouver’s Vanishing Growth Could Be a Congestion Issue |
Love’s Not On The Sea as Valentine’s Imports Drop |
60 Days Delay The Way California’s Ports May See Renewed Growth |
Five Bumps In The Road to Tariff Clarity for Automakers |
MSC and Evergreen Lean on Spain and Taiwan to Outpace Their Peers |
China’s Surprise Hides Disappointment For Phone, Chipmakers |
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Panjiva Daily: SeaTac sets the pace; Diageo leads tequila’s rise; JAB’s big gulp of Brazilian coffee |
Mexican Auto Exports’ Pickup Faces USMCA, Tariff Uncertainties |
Under Armour Under the Weather As Imports, Inventories and Sales Decline |
CH Robinson Suffers Asia Slowdown as Panalpina and Ceva Resist Temptation |
Customs Costs Surge, Set to Subside as Imports Slide |
China’s Export Reversal Reversed, U.S. Still Suffering |
Wilhelmsen’s Core Car Customers Face Thicket of Regulatory Worries |
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Tequila’s Rise Led by Diageo, Becle avoids a Hangover With 4Q Growth |
Panjiva Daily: U.S. imports from China freeze over; Brexit plans from Tata and DP World |
Post-Brexit Deal Good for Swiss Medicines, Template for Norwegian Deal |
Marfrig’s Japanese Beef Opportunity Faces EU and Canadian Competition |
JAB Holding Takes a Bigger Gulp of Brazilian Coffee |
Maersk Deepens Consolidation Strategy With Broker Purchase |
HMM Chips Away At Losses, Becoming More Aggressive in New Year |
Canadian Comeback Sees SeaTac Best Its Peer Ports |
Tariff Quote Watch: ThyssenKrupp Lifts Fall on U.S. Duties on China Parts and Metals |
Monday, February 11, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Latest battle in the trade war; Panalpina could help DSV; January import growth |
No Brexit Fear from DP World, Though Ports Aren’t The Problem |
Brexit Supply Chain Building Apparent Once Fuel is Wiped Away |
U.S. Import Growth From China Freezes Over As Appliance Shipments Drop |
Tariff Quote Watch: Tata Joins Honda and BMW With Brexit Downtime Plans |
Sunday, February 10, 2019
Vale’s Woes Grow as Tubarão Pellet Plant Closed |
Panama Canal Channeled Late Tariff-Related Growth in January |
January Import Growth Slowing Down, Not Yet Going Down in the U.S. |
Chinese Memory Modules Lose a Trade Battle, U.S. Still Losing the War |
Tariff Quote Watch: Volvo’s Very Well Timed Factory Opens as Tariffs Rise |
Thursday, February 07, 2019
Panalpina May Help DSV, Deal Won’t Change The Industry Significantly |
Wednesday, February 06, 2019
The Bad News is Not New News for President Trump’s Deficit Metric |
Panjiva Daily: USMCA’s steel controversy; Vale’s dam limitations; EU-Japan agricultural trade model |
Panjiva Insights: Decision making in an uncertain environment |
Tuesday, February 05, 2019
EU-Japan Deal Unlocks Agricultural Potential, Could Be Model for U.S. Deal |
USMCA Watch: Controversy Awaits as Structural Steel Imports Build Up |
Quota Threats Have Yet to Prove a Deterrent To Uranium Shipments |
Tight LA Warehousing May Slacken as Small Chinese Ports Suffer Slowdown |
Maersk’s Barge Solution to Congestion May Be Needed Most by COSCO Shipping |
Vale’s Brazilian Dam Limitations Manageable, Follows Rapid Export Growth |
Panjiva Daily: State of the union in trade; Ceva’s sales slow; Nissan’s Infiniti patience |
Monday, February 04, 2019
Toyota’s Imports Suggest Worse to Come as U.S. Auto Sales Hit Five Year Low |
Thai Smog Measures Could Disrupt Samsung’s Supply Chain |
Nissan Pulls X-Trail From U.K., Might Not Have Infiniti Patience for Brexit Uncertainty |
Ceva’s Sales Slow, But CMA-CGM Cooperation Flies |
The State of the Union in Trade – A Work in Progress |
Panjiva Daily: Schindler lifts its imports; ONE struggles to step forward; Valero’s Venezuelan hole |
Sunday, February 03, 2019
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in January 2019 |
Schindler Lifts Its Imports Just As Tariff Leniency is Rejected |
Valero’s Venezuelan Hole Could be Filled by Pemex |
ONE Struggles to Take a Step Forward With China Downturn Ahead |
Three Reasons for Caution After Container Lines’ Fast Start to 2019 |
Friday, February 01, 2019
Panjiva Daily: U.S.-China talks need more than a hill of beans; UPS may have missed out |
Hindalco and Vedanta Undeterred by Tariffs as India Delays Retribution Again |
American Export Confidence Dips To Lowest During Trump Administration |
South Korea’s The Canary In The Coal Mine For Global Trade Slowdown |
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Foxconn’s Wisconsin woes; Ingersoll-Rand’s tariff confidence; Toy sales slip |
China’s Business Outlook for Trade Gets Better, But Is Still Bad |
UPS May Have Missed Out from Late Season Shipping Surge |
2019 Outlook: Decision Making In An Era of Uncertainty, Views from Across S&P Global |
More Than A Hill of Beans Needed As China-U.S. Talks Continue |
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Hogs and washers – the toll of tariffs; CH Robinson delivers; Beans’ perfect storm |
Baltimore Congestion Could Curtail Ikea, Starbucks Shipping |
Hasbro May Pull Ahead of Mattel As U.S. Toy Sales Slip |
Foxconn’s Competitive Worries in TV May Not Just Be a Wisconsin Issue |
Polar Vortex Could Freeze UPM Kymmene, Honda Midwest Supply Chains |
Tariff Quote Watch: Ingersoll-Rand Ready For Tariff Hike in 2019 |
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Hogs and Washers – Tariffs Take a Toll Across The Board |
Panjiva Daily: Caterpillar’s risky tariff outlook; slow Mexican trade heralds U.S. export slump |
Manila Congestion Could Cause Local Supply Chain Reorganization |
CH Robinson Delivers, Takes An Upbeat But Risky Outlook |
Brazilian Beans’ Perfect Storm Could Swamp Louis Dreyfus, Bunge |
Worst Export Month Since 2009 For Savannah Confirms U.S. Export Crash |
Tariff Quote Watch: Graco Expects Bumpy Ride, But Safe Passage Through Tariffs |
Monday, January 28, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Maersk relaxed about trade war; Tariffs suck for iRobot |
Orient Overseas Goes For Volume Over Rates as China Drop Looms |
Sweden’s Strikes Carry Cautionary Tale For Ports |
Mitsui-OSK’s Readies Oakland for Growth as Japan Trade Deal Beckons |
Brexit and Cars to Blame For European Trade Sentiment Slowdown |
Mexico Trade Slows, May Herald U.S. Export Slump |
Tariff Quote Watch: Caterpillar Sees Tariffs Continuing to Crawl |
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Investor AB Hopes Holdings’ Brexit, Tariff Risks Will Fall |
Tariff Quote Watch: “Tariffs Suck” for iRobot’s Vacuums, Prices Rises Cut Demand |
Saturday, January 26, 2019
Sluggish Suez Shipping Suggests Slower Global Trade |
USMCA Watch: Mexican Healthcare The Latest Challenge to USMCA Passage |
Tariff Quote Watch: Maersk Strikes Relaxed Tone About Trade War |
Friday, January 25, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Cali’s fortunes hurt Trump’s favorite metric; Union Pacific’s Tennessee tension |
Charleston’s Challenge Will Be China, Currently Europe |
Global Trade Grew, Just, For a 34th Month in November |
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Panjiva Daily: 30 month low for trade activity; Newark’s new problem; Subaru steers away |
Food Supply Chains’ 44.7 Billion Pound Brexit Problem |
Risen and Longi’s Indian Prospects May Darken With Another Tariff Round |
Teachers’ Strike Could Disrupt Supply Chains for General Motors and Mazda |
Union Pacific Faces Tennessee Tension as Chassis Run Low |
Fever Tree Needs Hotter U.S. Gin Market For Growth To Continue |
Cali’s December Fortunes Bode Ill For Trump’s Favorite Trade Metric |
Tariff Quote Watch: Ford Carries a Tariff Burden That Could Grow Heavier |
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Subaru May Steer Away From The U.S. If Tariffs Get Too High |
Newark’s New Problem is Congestion, Clearance May Be Just a Matter of Time |
Panjiva Daily: Retail tariff tracking; Stanley Black & Decker’s costs; Fender yet to be rocked |
Singapore’s Port Gets Back To Growth Just as Asia Slows |
Japan Makes Four As Asian Electronics Supply Chains Slump |
Brighter End to The Worst Year In A Decade For Shipbuilding |
Gun Importers Not Yet Ready To Load Up as Supreme Court Date Set |
JBS and BRF Fall Foul of Chicken Import Rules in China and Saudi Arabia |
Global Trade Activity Index Hits Lowest Since June 2016 |
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Vancouver Confronts Congestion With Major Redesign |
Panjiva Daily: Deals ahead, stability behind for freight forwarders; Europe puts steel in its demands |
No More California for California Cartage, Risks to Growth From China |
Excess Inventory Risk as Consumer Durable Retailers Face Tariff Uncertainties |
Fender, Yet to Be Rocked by Tariffs, Still Bringing Manufacturing Back to U.S. |
Tariff Quote Watch: Tariffs Just Another Form of Inflation for Stanley Black & Decker |
Monday, January 21, 2019
Deals and Trade War Ahead, Stability Behind for Freight Forwarders |
Europe Puts Steel In Its Demands, May Scupper Talks for 2019 |
India Joins Asia’s Bilateral Trade Slowdown, Oil Not To Blame |
Orient Overseas Prepares to Spend as Growth Outpaces Cosco Shipping’s Total |
Tariff Quote Watch: Tariffs Chip Away at TSMC, Chinese Semiconductor Trade Slides |
Sunday, January 20, 2019
Tariff Quote Watch: Fastenal’s 172 Day Tariff Journey Leads to Delayed Tariff Impact |
Friday, January 18, 2019
Panjiva Daily: May holds the key to March; potential losers from Venezuela sanctions |
Tariff Quote Watch: JB Hunt Missed Out on Tariff Boom, Will Face Crunch |
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Panjiva Daily: DSV-Panalpina’s balance and opportunities; Ocean’s four cut services |
Autos Slowdown Could Take an Axe to CMA-CGM’s ACSA Volumes |
Indian Rice May Need More Export Subsidies To Stay On The Boil |
Venezuela Sanctions Could Cause Problems for Chevron, Valero |
Huawei Accelerates Equipment Imports As Investigation Looms |
Brexit Opportunity for Intas and Aurobindo as Novo and Sanofi Warn on Supplies |
May Holds The Key to March as Brexit Options Bifurcate |
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Ocean’s Four Cut Services, Add Capacity To Stay Competitive With 2M |
Panjiva Daily: Bad things come to those who wait; Fiat and Ford count the cost of tariffs |
DSV-Panalpina Will Be Balanced, Opportunities and White Knights May Be Limited |
China Tariff Bargains, Canadian Fuel Leads to U.S. Price Deflation |
Tariff Quote Watch: Albecour Sees CETA as The Future After U.S. Tariffs Bite |
Tariff Quote Watch: Guangzhou Auto Parks Car Plans, China Component Shipments Soar |
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Blame Apple for China’s woes; no room for shipping complacency |
Tariff Quote Watch: MSC Industrial Reaches Deal with Customers To Handle Tariffs |
Port Houston Shouldn’t Have a Problem Even as China Leads Shipping Growth |
Blame Apple, and Tariffs, for China’s Export Woes |
No Room For Shipping Complacency Even if 4Q Marked Recovery |
Peel Peels Maersk and MSC Away from Hutchison for U.K. to U.S. Service |
Kansas City Southern Aims to Expand, Could Diversify, Mexico’s Rail Exports |
Gymboree Faces Second Chapter 11 As Imports Fall Flat |
Bad Things Come To Those Who Wait; Tariff Appeal Denials Jeopardize Investment |
Tariff Quote Watch: Fiat Chrysler and Ford Feel Cost and Uncertainty of Trump’s Policies |
Tariff Quote Watch: Dell Relies on Pricing and Pivot to Tackle Tariffs |
Monday, January 14, 2019
DP World’s Chilean Purchase Driven by Cars |
Panjiva Daily: China slips, trade with U.S. falls; Evergreen beats COSCO; Mexico’s gasoline losers |
2019 Outlook: The View from Panjiva’s Co-Founder |
Sunday, January 13, 2019
Mexican Pipeline Closures Bring Short- and Long-Term Pain for Tesoro, ExxonMobil |
CAFTA-DR Likely Faces NAFTA’s Fate, Fruit and Clothes Pay the Price |
China’s Exports Slip, But U.S. Still a $4.3 Billion Loser in Trade War |
Friday, January 11, 2019
Panjiva Daily: ACES could be Trump’s autos tariff card; tough 2019 ahead for UPS |
GM Lags Ford in Mexican Auto Export Performance |
Bangladesh Strikes Raise Supply Chain Challenges for H&M |
Evergreen Beats COSCO on U.S. Routes as ONE Turns a Corner |
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Sourcing strategy survey results; lots said at China-U.S. talks but delivery is difficult |
Train Takes The Strain To Reduce Congestion Risks At New York, New Jersey |
COSCO Aims To Tackle COSCO, CMA-CGM and ONE With Hong Kong Port Alliance |
2M Becomes 2.1M With ZIM, Could Become MMZ |
ACES May Be Trump’s Card For Autos Tariff Solution |
Tough 2019 Beckons for UPS, Ground Lost to CH Robinson |
2019 Outlook: The Year Ahead for Global Supply Chains |
Wednesday, January 09, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Black swan risks for 2019, Trudeau-Trump talks go nowhere and Sony’s tough choices |
2018 Ends With a Whimper But Panama Canal Diversion Effect Remains |
Air Freight Stalls as Seafreight Steams Onwards in November |
Lots Said at U.S.-China Talks, But Delivery Easier Said Than Done |
2019 Outlook – Industries: Survey Shows Trade Tensions Weigh on Sourcing Strategies |
LA Leads Growth and Momentum as Ports End 2018 On a High |
Honda, Jaguar Scale Back Imports as U.S. Auto Sales Grind To A Halt |
Tuesday, January 08, 2019
Panjiva Daily: 2019 outlook – Supply chains face tariff uncertainty now, must change later |
Hapag-Lloyd Fire Expands List of Supply Chain Challenges in Early 2019 |
2019 Outlook – Black Swans: Trade War May Be The Least Of Our Worries |
USMCA Watch: Trudeau-Trump Talks Go Nowhere as U.S. Aluminum Imports Climb |
Tariff Quote Watch: Sony Faces Tough China Choices if Tariffs Become Permanent |
Tariff Quote Watch: Make-in-India Makes Samsung and Foxconn Reconsider Sourcing |
Monday, January 07, 2019
Panjiva Daily: 2019 outlook for logistics – getting back to basics |
Ninth Year of Logistics Payroll Growth Leaves Dockworkers Behind |
Transpacific Sentiment Mismatch May Reflect Differing Policy Outlooks |
2019 Outlook – Industries: Supply chain change faces uncertainty now, necessity later |
CES Watch: Samsung Grabs iTunes as TV Share is Lost to LG and Funai |
2018 Ends With a Bang as China Tariff Worries Buoy U.S. Imports |
USMCA Watch: Rubio Seeks To Dig Over Fruit Rules, May Earn AMLO’s Ire |
Sunday, January 06, 2019
Steel Supply Chains Start 2019 With Distortions, More Likely to Follow |
Shipping’s Lunar Holiday Cheer Rests in the Hands of Trade Negotiators |
Thursday, January 03, 2019
Panjiva Daily: 2019 outlook for trade policy; Apple’s unsurprising crunch |
Toyota and Nissan Exports Slump as Weak Sales Trump Regulatory Review |
2019 Outlook – Logistics: Getting Back To Basics |
Tariff Quote Watch: Vietnam May Gain from China if Toys’ Story Includes Tariff Chapter |
Wednesday, January 02, 2019
Panjiva Daily: Nestle, NSK win a reprieve; 706 ways to reflate China; 12 events you may have missed |
Mazda, Honda May Have Lost Vehicles in Tragic Vessel Fire |
Dates Set, Deals Planned – Events You May Have Missed Over The Holidays |
2019 Outlook – Global Policy: Golden Age Followed by Tarnished Deals |
2019 Outlook – U.S. Policy: Two Disappointments, Two Delays and a High-Wire Act |
Tariff Quote Watch: Apple’s Crunch Shouldn’t Be a Surprise |
Tuesday, January 01, 2019
Nestle, NSK Win China Tariff Reprieve as Exemption Rate Reaches 78% |
China Finds 706 Ways to Reflate the Economy Via Tariff Cuts |
Friday, December 21, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Global Supply Chains in 2018 – What Happened and Why |
2018 Review: Deals Done and Not Done – What We Got Wrong and Why |
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Tariff Quote Watch: Herman Miller Will Err On The Side of Caution And Raise Prices |
Panjiva Daily: Pre-Brexit whisky binge, Congested Californian ports and Navistar’s tariff steering |
Worst Year Since Financial Crisis Looms for Shipbuilders, Fairer Sailing Ahead |
2018 Review: 12 Events That Shaped Global Supply Chains |
2018 Review: Do Tariffs Work? Trump Plants Seeds But Has Yet to Harvest Success |
Tariff Quote Watch: Shiloh Industries Makes a Virtue of U.S. Tariff Policies |
Tariff Quote Watch: Steelcase Raises Prices, Tables Supply Shift For Now |
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Tariff Quote Watch: Navistar Steers Around Steel Tariffs, May Hit The 232 Review |
Tariff Quote Watch: Lovesac Throws More Production To Vietnam |
Panjiva Daily: TNT blows up Fedex, Maersk dominates U.S. shipping and hunters win a tariff exemption |
Dell’s Dynamic, Lenovo Reboots as Laptop Tariff Threat Powers Down |
Congested California Faces New Year Squeeze |
America’s Pre-Brexit Whisky Binge Sets Record For Imports |
Tariff Quote Watch: Nidec Nixes Chinese Motors in Favor of Mexican Supplies |
Tariff Quote Watch: Worthington Drums Up Price Increases as Cylinder Costs Increase |
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Panjiva Daily: China’s reforms at 40, K+N could use a hand from Hapag-Lloyd and Baby Alive wins Xmas |
Liners Still Doing Fine As Signs of Tariff Rush Slowdown Meet Oil’s Collapse |
AMLO’s Oil Ambition Starts Production Versus Exports Earnings Race |
Hunters Win From Tariff Exemptions, 80% of Requests Still Outstanding |
Japan’s Export Slowdown Due To Industrial Supply Chain Activity, Not Tariffs |
TNT’s Failings Blow Up Fedex’s Profitability |
Uber Can’t Get Over Tariffs, Calls For E-Bike Exemption |
Maersk and MSC Dominate U.S. Shipping as CMA-CGM Loses Power |
Monday, December 17, 2018
Retailers Bet on Baby Alive and PlayStation to Win a Slow Toys Sales Season |
Panjiva Daily: Trade war stakes still high, Pemex’s port problems and PVH trims Bangladesh buying |
Singapore Slowdown Caused by Oil and Tariffs as Regional Trade Growth Slows |
“Make in India” Working as Trade Growth Slips |
China’s Reforms at 40 – Trade Growth Miracle Fades, Trade Policy Challenges Emerge |
Six Ports Indicate 22nd Increase in Trade Deficit Lies Ahead |
K+N Could Use Hapag-Lloyd’s Hand as Freight Forwarders’ Growth Slows |
Sunday, December 16, 2018
Almond Retribution Delayed as India Holds Back Steel Tariff Reponse |
Party Over in California as China Tariff War Takes Away The Punchbowl |
China Helps BMW and Tesla, Doesn’t Trade Stakes in Change War |
Friday, December 14, 2018
Panjiva Daily: 17 days of beans, Samsung’s Indian choice and the effect of discounting |
Brighter Performance from Longi and Jinko With Solar Supply Chain Switch |
PVH Trims Bangladesh Sourcing While H&M Weaves More Into Its Supply Chain |
Pemex Port Problems Today May Become American Exporters’ Troubles Later |
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Where LA Goes, New York May Follow as Chinese Imports Fade |
South Korean Subsidies May Become a Part of Hyundai, GM Parts Supply Chains |
Samsung Chooses India Over China as Tariffs Help Drive Supply Chain Choices |
Oil and Chinese Discounting May Slash U.S. Import Growth to Two Year Low |
17 Days of Beans, Temporary Car Tariff Cuts Are a Slow Start to 90 Days of Talks (Update) |
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Blame Europe, not China for slower U.S. import growth; OPEC’s cut vs. U.S. oil exports |
China Deal Could Help U.S. LNG Exporters Achieve Their Potential |
Bean Deal May Support Traffic Growth Through The Panama Canal |
Monday, December 10, 2018
Hindalco Wins, Hunter Douglas Loses in Case Aimed at Chinese Aluminum |
OPEC Cut Addresses Only Part of U.S. Net Import Decline |
Panjiva Daily: Flooring and phones show tariffs’ limits; Iran solution found for India’s oil needs |
Mangalore and Indian Oil Have New Mechanism to Mitigate Iran Sanctions |
China Risk to Walmart, Amazon Traffic Overshadows Already Lackluster Norfolk |
Blame Europe and Cars, Not China and Tariffs For November Slowdown |
Tariff Quote Watch: GoPro Goes Out of China In Active Duty Decision |
Tariff Quote Watch: Tiangong Rings Up Price Rises to Offset Higher Duties |
Sunday, December 09, 2018
Flooring and Phones Show Tariff Worries Can Be Counterproductive |
Oil and Tariffs Slow Chinese Imports But U.S.-Bound Export Growth Remains Robust |
Friday, December 07, 2018
Panjiva Daily: A $13 billion tariff loss, why the future of trade is open, and Brown-Forman jacks up prices |
BMW Revs Up Plans for U.S. Engine Factory Before Tariffs Choke Trade |
Pilots of Both Kinds Face Squeeze on Employment From Trade War and Automation |
Tariff Quote Watch: Greif May Need to Give Chinese Bag Suppliers to Sack to Beat Tariffs |
Thursday, December 06, 2018
Tariff Quote Watch: Genesco Tries To Keep A Lid On Tariff Risk With Inventory Build |
Tariff Quote Watch: Brown-Forman Needs to Jack Up Prices to Cover EU Duties |
U.S. Customs Lays Down The Law on Chinese Plywood Tariff Evasion |
America’s $13 Billion Loss In The Latest Trade Battle With China |
Tariff Quote Watch: Michaels Group Crafts A Multi-Pronged Tariff Strategy |
Wednesday, December 05, 2018
Panjiva Daily: 11,565 calls for help, 612 answers; Trade policy in the 116th Congress |
Mondelez Bags Increased Imports as Brazilian Coffee Supplies Jump |
Panjiva Insights: The Future of Trade Is Open |
Tuesday, December 04, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Volkswagen’s Mexican stick and ArcelorMittal’s steel deal opportunity |
Volkswagen Could Wield Mexican Stick In Response to Trump’s Tariff Stick |
Georgia’s Got Growth On Its Mind as Gainesville Gains Inland Port |
Losers Outstrip Winners 2.4-to-1 as Tariff Exemptions Process Grinds On |
Panjiva Insights: U.S. Trade Policy in The 116th Congress |
Tariff Quote Watch: Dell Dials Up Prices to Deflect Disc Drive Duties |
Tariff Quote Watch: Natuzzi Cuts Costs to Tackle Tariffs, Industry Sat on Excess Imports |
Monday, December 03, 2018
G20 Watch: 100 Jets May Speed U.S.-Japan Trade Deal as Abe Passes Deficit Test |
USMCA Watch: Mexico Metals Deal Could Help Tenaris and ArcelorMittal |
Panjiva Daily: Paying the price for peace between President Xi and President Trump |
Suez Surges Ahead of Panama, Both May See Lower Volumes if Trade Truce Holds |
Blame Consumers (Mostly), Not Trade War For Korea’s Export Slowdown (For Now) |
Trade War Gives, Trade Peace May Take Away From the Shipping Sector |
ISM Import Sentiment Slows, Could Fall Further On 90 Day Tariff Ceasefire |
Empties at the Heart of Charleston’s Growth, China Tariff Delay May Weigh |
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in November 2018 |
CMA-CGM and MSC’s Clear Link to Fuel Costs May Not Be Accepted by Customers |
Dumping Complaints Quiet in November, Xi-Trump Deal May Keep The Volume Down |
Sunday, December 02, 2018
G20 Watch: Tesla Is One Winner From The Trump-Xi Trade Truce |
G20 Watch: Trump’s Pause Paid for By Xi’s Purchase Promise |
Tariff Worries Lead Japan’s Automakers to Slow U.S. Exports Ahead of Abe-Trump Meet |
Friday, November 30, 2018
Panjiva Daily: USMCA passage depends on Dems and OPEC; Mitsubishi’s “huge impact” from tariffs |
Trade War Not The Only Worry For Chinese Exporters |
USMCA Watch: Arisen in the fall to fall in the summer? Democrats and OPEC are key |
Thursday, November 29, 2018
San Diego Hack a Reminder of Supply Chain Vulnerabilities |
Panjiva Daily: G20 special – 6 items to watch from Xi-Trump to DPRK sanctions |
Maersk Looks To Squeeze Competitors in Growing Fruit Trade Business |
HMM’s Ambitions a Worry for Peers, Not a Reason To Panic |
Tariff Quote Watch: Mitsubishi’s “Huge Impact” from Car Tariffs Means Price Hikes |
Tariff Quote Watch: ONE Sees Three Outcomes For Trade War, Two Are Not Good |
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Panjiva Daily: CMA-CGM and ONE the worst of the bunch; Samsung and Honda drive Thai development |
PdVSA Avoids Seizure of Citgo While Relying More on Valero as U.S. Oil Customer |
Phone Demand May Bring Chips Down More Than Trade War |
Volvo and GM Targeted By Lighthizer’s China Tariff Equalization Commitment |
G20 Watch: The Xi-Trump Meet Is Only One of Six Major Issues to Watch |
Record Autos Trade Deficit May Spur Trump Administration to Tariff Action |
Tariff Quote Watch: Minimized Molecular Tourism the Key to DowDuPont Tariff Strategy |
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Panjiva Daily: GM cuts as trade policy clears, why CMA-CGM fell behind and trade’s become less fair |
Ski Gear Retailers Don’t Expect a Tariff Tumble |
Divergent European Export Sentiment Can’t Hide Brexit Worries |
Samsung and Honda Drive Thai Development As Port Investments Proceed |
Losses Beat Tariffs For Chinese Steel Wire Makers’ Exports |
CMA-CGM and ONE The Worst of The Bunch As Container-Line EBITDA Drops 16% |
Mexican Trade Accelerates Ahead of AMLO’s Accession |
Monday, November 26, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Hapag-Lloyd’s new course, Ceva might sever links and retailers’ inventory challenge |
Ceva May Sever Links With Maersk and ONE in CMA-CGM Strategy Plan |
The Difference a Year Makes as CMA-CGM Falls Behind Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd |
USMCA Watch: General Motors’ Cuts Follow Clarity in Trump’s Trade Policies |
Canada’s Port Activity Surges, Bested by U.S. West Coast |
Migrant Caravan Brings Risks For Samsung and Toyota Supply Chains |
Trade May Have Become Even More Unfair in October Using The Trump Metric |
Sunday, November 25, 2018
Global Trade Growth Slowing, But Not Because of Tariff War |
Tariff Quote Watch: K+N Sees Stagnant First Quarter Once Stock Building Ends |
Friday, November 23, 2018
Porsche and Jaguar May Find Life Easier in China as Parallel Import Rules Planned |
Oboz On The March Since Kathmandu Takeover |
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Tariff Quote Watch: Johnson Matthey’s Mitigation Challenge “Getting Bigger” |
Tariff Quote Watch: Deere’s Yet To Dig Itself Out Of All Duty Risks |
Target Misses The Bullseye as Inventories Surge Ahead of the Holidays |
Hapag-Lloyd’s Course Has Room for Maneuver, Need for Speed and K+N Deal |
Tariff Quote Watch: BlueScope Loves Australian Steel Exemption |
Tariff Quote Watch: Tesla Swallows Tariff Shock While Prepping Shanghai Strategy |
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Panjiva Daily: ONE’s alliance-busting offering, Apple’s fewer phones and Mexican rails’ fortunes |
Tariff Quote Watch: Best Buy Makes Best Efforts To Avoid Import Duty Risks |
Tariff Quote Watch: Xerox and Haier Among SeaTac Users Exploring “New Strategies” |
Tariff Quote Watch: Urban Outfitters Stays Lean, Avoids Trade Disruption Risk |
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Black Friday’s pre-tariff bargains, Electrolux’s next price hike and Houston’s top spot |
Boks’ Box Handling Heading Higher Again, Attracting New Liner Services |
Worst Year in Four Beckons For American Defense Export Industry |
10-Year Low in Shipyard Exports And Declining Orders Lead Japan to the WTO |
Three Presidents Cast Doubt Over North American Rails’ Fortunes |
Apple’s Fewer Phones, Bigger Numbers Issue is Not a New Phenomenon |
ONE’s Three Carrier Offering Crosses Alliance Barriers, May Raise Antitrust Worries |
Monday, November 19, 2018
Panjiva Daily: JC Penney slips after import slide, nothing but exemptions denial and ZIM’s less zippy |
Trade War Contagion Absent as Japanese Export Growth Accelerates |
Black Friday Shoppers Have President Trump to Thank for Pre-Tariff Bargains |
Forget About The Trade War, China’s Memory Chip Verdict is About Surging Imports |
Long Beach Buyer Will Need COSCO’s Business, China Risk Appetite |
Hapag-Lloyd and MSC Fight to Rope The Top Spot in Houston |
Tariff Quote Watch: Electrolux Readies Next Price Hike as Duty Risks Heat Up |
Sunday, November 18, 2018
PlayStation Distraction Avoidance and Tariff Risk Drive Surging Console Imports |
White House Industrial Strategy Raises Specter of Generic Drug Tariffs |
Saturday, November 17, 2018
Nothing But Denial as NXP Adds to the China Exemption Tariff Request List |
JC Penney’s Slip Follows Import Slide, China Not a Risk For Now |
ZIM Less Zippy as 2M Cooperation Crimps Volume Growth |
Soaring Imports May Lead Modi to Double Down on “Make in India” Tariffs |
Friday, November 16, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Maersk and MSC grab market share and widespread “dumping” evident from inflation |
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Panjiva Daily: CH Robinson conquers the quarter, Maersk flags a significant slowdown |
India’s Iranian Oil Rush Over as Modi and Pence Agree Crude Deal |
$962 million Food Duty Cuts Foregone as EU and U.S. Focus on Scope Limits |
Maersk and MSC Grab Market Share from ONE and COSCO Ahead of Tariffs’ Bite |
Cali Container Growth Hits 8 Year High, Led by China |
Widespread “Dumping”, Deficit Increase Evident From Trade Prices |
Tariff Quote Watch: Sonos Sounds Out Its Suppliers For China Sourcing Changes |
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Ceva stumbles, K+N sinks its claws in and the road to a U.S.-Japan deal |
LVMH Has Little To Fear From 15 Cents a Bottle Tariff Threat |
Oil’s Crash Could Help Container-Lines, But Not Yet |
CH Robinson Wins The 3PLs’ Third Quarter, Reinvests in Growth |
Savannah’s Hot Import Growth Due To China, Could Rapidly Reverse |
Maersk’s Tariff-Driven Acceleration Will Become a Significant Slowdown |
No Easy Route To U.S.-Japan Deal With Car Complications, Beef Battle Ahead |
Tariff Quote Watch: KGHM’s China Copper Trade Worries Could Hit BHP in Chile |
Tariff Quote Watch: Samsonite Shifts Sourcing Away From China, Just in Case Tariffs Rise |
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Hyundai and Daimler Rush as Trump Puts Autos Review Back in Drive |
Panjiva Daily: Trump puts autos review back in drive, 7 tariff strategies and 2,152 more cries for help |
Forging Stronger Links – Using Supply Chain Data in The Investing Process |
ONE Is First in Norfolk, For Now, as China Volumes Decline |
K+N Sinks Its Claws Deeper Into Terex, Pyramid May Be Toppled |
JBS and Marfrig Set to Pay the Price for Bolsonaro’s Israel Policy |
Ceva Profitability Slumps as Volume Growth Proves Expensive, Customer Fails |
Monday, November 12, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s new trade war front and tariffs didn’t dent demand in October |
J&J’s China-Local Strategy Shows Risks to American Drug Export Growth |
2,152 More Cries for Help as Tariff Exemption Demands Widen |
West Does Best as Trade War Bypasses Most Ports |
Yang Ming’s Passive Approach Can’t Prevent Falling Profitability |
Tariff Quote Watch: Seven Supply Chain Strategies Firms Are Using To Tackle Tariffs |
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Target Misses Toy Target and Baby Alive Grows Bigger Than Fingerlings |
Tariffs Fail To Dent Demand as America’s Consumers Buy Foreign |
Tariff Quote Watch: Martinrea Emerging From a Perfect Storm, Squalls Still Ahead |
Saturday, November 10, 2018
Volvo Values Tariff Risks, May Retool Supply Chain |
China’s Loss is Oman’s Gain as Commerce Targets Aluminum Sheet |
Trump’s New Trade War Front – Labor, Bags and Sneakers |
Tariff Quote Watch: Kodak’s Profit Snapped by Aluminum Duties, Film May Follow |
Friday, November 09, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Wallenius wobbles, Lenovo’s well served and BMW’s set to swerve |
Thursday, November 08, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Life after the midterm elections, Hapag-Lloyd holds station and Toyota’s tough choices |
Hapag-Lloyd Holds as Peers Fold, Mostly Thanks to UASC |
China Wins The October Trade War Round With America |
Felixstowe’s Fail is Gateway’s Gain as Maersk and MSC Switch More Services |
Panama Posts Slower Growth as West Coast Claims China Trade Growth |
Roku On A Roll, Tariff Trouble Could Lie Ahead |
Wallenius’ Loses Drive as Fuel Costs Fill Up |
Tariff Quote Watch: BMW Set to Swerve China Truck Tariffs With Local Production |
Tariff Quote Watch: Lenovo Well Served By Tariffs, Laptop Duties Are a Risk |
Wednesday, November 07, 2018
Global Soybean Swap As Tariffs Crush China’s U.S. Purchases |
Yaris Import Crash The First of Many Tough Choices for Toyota |
Life After The Elections – Influence With Limited Impact |
Panjiva Daily: Expeditors’ discipline, Trump’s minor metals tariff impact and global trade growth stalls |
David’s Bridal May Face Supplier Divorce Ahead of Seasonal Import Peak |
Tariff Quote Watch: Rockwell Rocks Its Supply Chain to Tackle Tariffs |
Tuesday, November 06, 2018
Matson Safe From Tariff Risk, Still Faces Fuel Cost Problems |
Expeditors’ Discipline Can’t Prevent a Slide in Profitability |
30 Month Run of Global Trade Growth Slows To a Crawl |
Tariff Quote Watch: Terex Digs Into Efficiency Plans To Offset Duty Costs |
Tariff Quote Watch: Ralph Lauren Ready to Realign Supply Chain in Response to Tariffs |
Tariff Quote Watch: FMC Leans on Exemption Appeal to Kill Off Tariff Pests |
Monday, November 05, 2018
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in October 2018 |
Trump’s Metals Duties Have Small Impact, Big Complications |
Panjiva Daily: The $2.18 billion cost of retaliation, Xi’s import push and container-lines’ October gloom |
Double-Edged Sword for 3PLs in Double-Rate Jobs Growth |
Brazil’s Coffee Bounty Attracts Starbucks’ Buyers |
Sunday, November 04, 2018
Gloomy October for Container Lines as Rates Slip |
Xi’s Import Tariff Push May Hasten The Trade Singularity vs. America |
The $2.18 Billion Cost of China’s Retaliation Against Trump’s Tariffs |
Friday, November 02, 2018
Tariff Quote Watch: GoPro Ready to Jump If Pushed By Tariffs, Imports Already Falling |
China Currently “Winning” The Trade War as U.S. Deficit Hits 10-Year High |
Panjiva Daily: 8,241 cries for help, GoPro gets ready to jump and Danone calls in Keurig |
Dumping Petitions Down as American Tariff Policies Remain in Flux |
8,241 Cries for Help as Trump’s China Tariffs Bite, Exemption Process Slow |
Thursday, November 01, 2018
Tariff Quote Watch: ACCO Brands Marks Prices Up, Lots More to Come |
Panjiva Daily: Disappointing forwarders, Samsung’s GSP strategy washed up, trade vs. the midterms |
Kim-Trump Summit Near At Hand, China Loosens Trade Shackles |
South Korean Trade Roars Back to Growth With Barely a Whisper of Tariff Troubles |
Nippon Express Makes 8 Out of 9 Disappointments from the 3PLs |
Evian’s Poor Performance Forces Danone to Call in Keurig Dr Pepper |
Two-year Low in American Export Sentiment Suggests Retaliation is Biting Business |
Tariff Quote Watch: Worst May Be Passed for Xylem as Localization Brings Benefits |
Tariff Quote Watch: Panasonic May Have to Swallow Tesla Tariff Costs |
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Panjiva Daily: CH Robinson keeps on trucking, COSCO holds the line and Cummins tackles tariffs |
Brunswick Provides More Room for Hyundai and Daimler, Success Depends on Tariffs |
Tariffs Take Toll on Chinese Sentiment, Export Outlook at Nov. 2015 Low |
CH Robinson Keeps On Trucking as Margin Expansion Beats UPS and K+N |
Samsung’s GSP Strategy Washed Up by Trump’s Proclamation |
Tariff Quote Watch: Steve Madden Kicks Off New Shoe and Bag Sourcing Strategy |
Tariff Quote Watch: Timken Gets the Ball Rolling On Tariff Mitigation |
Tariff Quote Watch: Cummins Tackles Tariffs With Production Shift, Including India |
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump needs a “great deal” from China, Cooper Tire rolls tariff costs into prices |
Dr Reddy’s Ready for Growth As Imports Surge After Quiet Quarter |
Corn Planting Earmarked to Offset Tariff-Afflicted Soybean Sales to China |
Midterm Elections: Opportunity Cost, Not Livelihoods Lost in North Dakota |
Trump Needs “Great Deal” to Avert All-In China Tariff Move |
COSCO Shipping Holds the Line on Rates But Sees Profitability Halved |
Tariff Quote Watch: Trade War Disrupts Infrastructure Spending as LNG Delays Decision |
Tariff Quote Watch: Fanuc Warns of Tariff Risks, Problem May Be Company-Specific |
Tariff Quote Watch: Cooper Tire Rolls Tariffs Into Higher Prices |
Monday, October 29, 2018
Toyota’s Torrid September May Pale Next To Forthcoming Supply Chain Decisions |
Tariff Quote Watch: Outokumpu Can’t Pass Through Tariffs, But Keeps on Shipping |
Tariff Quote Watch: Tenneco’s Steel Loss, China Win From Trump’s Duties |
Panjiva Daily: Fiat-Chrysler commits to Mexico and PriceSmart reconsiders its supply chain |
Brexit Brink’s Approach Drags European Sentiment to Lowest Since 2016 |
USMCA Watch: Fiat-Chrysler Recommits to Mexico as Exports Reach a Record |
Lek’s Gain is Merck’s Loss as Statin Costs Drop |
Tariff Quote Watch: PriceSmart Shows Trump’s Tariffs Can Cause Regional Supply Chain Changes |
Sunday, October 28, 2018
Price Pressure Ahead for America’s $73 Billion Drug Import Industry |
Friday, October 26, 2018
Panjiva Daily: DSV’s not worried about trade war; the U.S. states paying the price for retaliation |
Fine Words as WTO Fails to Progress Fine Paper Case |
Global Trade Record Overshadowed, But Not Yet Hurt, By Tariffs |
DSV Not Worried About Trade War as Sales Soar, But That Might Change |
Energy Behind Mexico’s Long Trade Boom, Could Be Disrupted by AMLO |
Tariff Quote Watch: Flextronics Finds Opportunity in India, Struggles to Execute |
Tariff Quote Watch: Stanley Stuffs Channel For Higher Tariffs, Lower Rates Passed On |
Tariff Quote Watch: Graco Hasn’t, But Will, Feel a Tariff Impact on Kids Car Seats |
Thursday, October 25, 2018
U.S. Midterms: Victims of Retaliation Against President Trump’s Trade Policy |
Panjiva Daily: CMA-CGM targets Ceva, UPS heads down and who cares about China trade? |
LG Electronics Blames Protectionism, Imports Could Cool Further |
Panalpina Disappoints, But Heads the Right Way |
10 Year High in Trade Deficit Led By China, Could Embolden Trump |
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
U.S. Midterms: Is Trade Working for The States and Who Cares About China? |
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s path to early USMCA signing and the struggles of ONE and COSCO |
Deadpool Saves the Day for Marvel as Movie Tie-Ins Drive Halloween Imports |
Caterpillar Downplays Tariff Risks, Prefers Price Rises |
Brazil Pursues China Through the WTO as Sugar Exports Turn Sour |
Kent May Steer More Bike Production To America With Trade Case Ahead |
USCMA Watch: Trump Offered Steel-for-Pork Swap For Early Deal Signing |
UPS Margins Head Down on Fuel, China Tariff Risks The Next Headwind |
ZIM Shipping Could Jack Up Jaxport, ONE Remains Number One |
CMA-CGM Will Buy Ceva (Eventually), UPS and K+N May Have Concerns |
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Hurricane Willa’s targets and 3PLs’ sliding profitability and Houston’s Walmart problem |
Iran, Pakistan Help Take Up China’s Slack in America’s Soybean Exports |
LG and Haier’s Washer Import Recovery Could Be Wrung Out By New Tariffs |
3PLs Set For Sixth Straight Decline in Profitability as China-U.S. Tariffs Bite |
Everyone Wins Except ONE, and COSCO as U.S. Container Volumes Surge |
Kansas City Southern’s Oil Win Proves Problematic, AMLO May Become a Drag |
Monday, October 22, 2018
Lithium Shakeup Ahead With Prospect of More China Sales for SQM, More U.S. For FMC |
Tariff Quote Watch: Honeywell’s Harbinger of Tariff Troubles for Caterpillar and Deere |
Hurricane Willa Threatens Pemex, Nissan Supply Chains Via Mazatlan |
Marelli-Calsonic, a New Auto-Parts Leader, Faces Three Big Regulatory Risks |
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s border threat and Honeywell’s harbinger of tariff troubles |
Europe Ready for Beef Deal That America May Not Care About |
Houston’s Growth May Have a Walmart Size Problem With China Tariffs |
Cable Imports Cut as Duties Bite, New Dumping Case Begins |
Shougang’s Strike Matters For Peru, But Not For China |
Friday, October 19, 2018
Panjiva Daily: CH Robinson beats Expeditors while K+N shows growth is easier than profitability |
Toy Supply Chains More About Who’R’Next Than Grabbing Growth |
Reliance Can’t Rely on America as a Yarn Market as New Case Spins Up |
Target and Home Depot Buck Savannah’s China Downshift to Build Holiday Stocks |
Trump’s Border Threat Brings Supply Chain Choice for Johnson Controls, Caterpillar |
Asia’s Storms Roil Toyota, Subaru Shipments to Seattle and Tacoma |
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Bigger Means Better for Panama as Canal Competition is Contained |
Panjiva Daily: Tariff urgency leads to shipment surge and the Trump-Juncker process stumbles |
Post-Florence Bounceback Possible in Norfolk as Imports Remain Resillient |
Jebi May Have Jabbed Japan’s Export Record, Not Just The Trump-Xi Trade War |
Risks to Trump’s Saudi Arms Orders Low With $20 Billion Approved, $2 Billion Delivered |
Little Sign of Confidence as Shipbuilding Downturn Gathers Pace |
CH Robinson Beats Expeditors But Runs the China Tariff Gauntlet |
K+N Shows Growth Is Easy, Profitability Less So as Margins Hit 2014 Low |
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
He-Said, She-Said Hinders Trump-Juncker Deal Process, But Autos Matter More |
Panjiva Daily: 17 supply chain issues to watch in 4Q 2018, and beyond |
CMA-CGM Spreads Eagle GO’s Wings Further After 34x Growth Success |
Orient Overseas Bets on Resilient China Trade With New Houston Service |
Tesla’s China Project Moves Up a Gear as China’s American EV Imports Slump |
ONE Crushed in Cali as CMA-CGM Swoops In |
Trump Tariff Urgency Drove September’s Shipment Surge |
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
China Sells More, Buys Less From America, Raising Tariff Escalation Risk |
ONE Love From Customers Still Returning As Outlook Worsens |
AMLO’s $58 Billion Oil Commitment Raises Risks For Trump Relations |
4Q18 Outlook – Logistics: Rates and Mates; Container-line Strategies To Watch |
4Q18 Outlook – Global Policy: The Connectedness of Deals – Nine Negotiations to Watch |
Monday, October 15, 2018
August Trade Battle Lost as U.S. Goods Deficit Hits Record on Bean and Car Slump |
Thursday, October 04, 2018
4Q18 Outlook – U.S. Policy: President Trump’s To-Do List – Six Deals to Watch |
Wednesday, October 03, 2018
Panjiva Daily: USMCA fallout for Daimler, Nissan, ArcelorMittal and the apparel industry |
USMCA Watch: Daimler and Nissan Face Prodigious Parts Problems Under New Rules |
Ta Chen Finds That If Metals Tariffs Mean You Can’t Beat Them, Buy Them |
Tuesday, October 02, 2018
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in September 2018 |
Panjiva Daily: China turns the screws and MSC’s hard work bears fruit for container rates |
Korea Pours Cold Water on KORUS, Forthcoming Tariffs a Bigger Issue for Autos |
Flextronics, Sterlite Helped as India Dials Down Equipment Tariffs |
Hutchison Loses Out to DP World as Felixstowe Woes Bite Port Performance |
USMCA Watch: Disruption Ahead as Fabric Buyers Weave a New Supplier Pattern |
USMCA Watch: ArcelorMittal and Ternium Left Behind as Steel Tariffs Remain |
Monday, October 01, 2018
China Turns The Tariff Screws on America, By Loosening Them On Others |
Business Beliefs Bounce For Trade As American Policy Moves Beyond China |
Panjiva Daily: USMCA is a win for Trump, EC is a threat for 2M and AD/CV is in the ascendant |
Early Harvest Brings Early End to South Korea’s Trade Boom |
Chinese Business Outlook Most Pessimistic For 32 Months |
17 Month High For Antidumping Petitions Follow USMCA, China Certainty |
Surgical Robots Could be An Early Success for Trump-Juncker Process |
MSC’s Hard Work Kick-Started The Liners’ Fight Back, Several Rounds Left to Win |
USMCA Watch: Trump Gets His Name But High Ceilings, Long Phase-ins Limit Impact |
Friday, September 28, 2018
Honda Revs Up Exports, May Reverse as U.S. Regulatory Risk Dissipates |
Panjiva Daily: $4.1 billion JUSTAfication for Trump-Abe deal and container-line collaboration |
Future of Maersk and MSC’s Alliance May Be Doubtful as EC Reviews Exemptions |
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s strategy JUSTAfied, Houston dodges duties and Nike’s safe from tariffs |
Charleston Survives Florence and China, May Trip on Autos Review |
Trump’s Latest Deal Not JUSTA Pipe Dream, But Not Easy To Win |
Blame OPEC (and Others) For Continued American Trade Deficit Surge |
Pemex Could Help Offset America’s China Oil Woes |
Air Conditioner Tariffs Unlikely To Cool India’s Overheating Trade Deficit |
Hapag-Lloyd and CMA-CGM Try Collaboration, Not Competition To Deal with Maersk |
$4.1 Billion JUSTA Duty Opportunity Focused on Cars and Cows |
Mexico’s Energy-Fueled Trade Surge Continues, U.S. Surplus Expansion Presents a Risk |
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Panjiva Daily: CMA-CGM and Maersk’s sour pill, paying BMW’s price and Dole’s fruit tariff potential |
Suez Feels Chill of Competition as Maersk Threads the Ice |
Mercs Made in India To Help Daimler’s Diversification Strategy |
Houston Dodges Tariff Bullets, Isn’t Immune From Increasingly Rapid Fire |
Nike and Adidas Should Be Safe From Tariff Hikes Should Trump Just Do It |
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Magna May Pay The Price for BMW’s China Tariff Woes |
Panjiva Daily: Answering Trump’s $270 billion question, DSV’s Asia options and Savannah’s scale-up |
Asia Beckons as DSV Looks Ahead to Next Round of Forwarder Consolidation |
Record Global Trade in July Helped by Tariff Rush |
Keg and Cable Makers Find Certainty, But Insufficient Leverage, From Trump’s Tariffs |
Del Monte Rides Fresh Fruit Boom While Dole Has China Tariff Opportunity |
In Juncker They Trust, in Ross They Fear – European Export Sentiment Diverges |
CMA-CGM and Maersk Try Ensure They Don’t Swallow Sulfur’s Sour Pill |
Trump-Kim Two May Drive Nuclear Deal But China’s $3 Billion Trade May Matter More |
Monday, September 24, 2018
Becks Bashed This Oktoberfest as American Tastes Turn Mexican |
APL’s Precision Yields Volume Growth, Plenty More Customers to Target |
Novatek’s Brazilian Success Further Complicates Life for U.S. LNG Exporters |
The $270 Billion Question – Trump’s Escalation Options Not As Wide As They Look |
Savannah’s Scale-Up Needs Amazon and Home Depot To Switch Out of China |
Friday, September 21, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Tacoma’s tariff troubles, Gulftainer’s big box plans and Brexit woes not just Mini |
Gap Shouldn’t Sweat It – Winter Wear and Ski Gear Avoid Duties For Another Year |
Care Needed in Assuming Beans’ Jump Means Trump Will Be Happy With EU |
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Panjiva Daily: 3,732 ways to stimulate China, Maersk’s room for more and Amazon’s mattress quandary |
Ikea May Tackle $30 Billion Furniture Tariff Spat With Price Rises |
Li’s 3,732 Ways To Boost The Chinese Economy Via Tariff Cuts |
Less Now, Less Tomorrow as Global Shipbuilding Conditions Slip |
Trump Goes To Postal Rates in Next Attempt To Curb Chinese Exports |
Brexit Deal Likelihood Fades, Much More Than a Mini Problem For Car Makers |
Sony Banks on Retro Gaming Boost as Early Imports Indicate Higher Score in 2018 |
Gulftainer’s Big Box Plans Need Big Lots and Other Pennsylvanians to Succeed |
Xerox and Jabil Hold Keys To Seattle’s Performance as Tariffs Weigh on Port Activity |
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Maersk Reorg Helps Customers, Leaves Room For Deeper Liner Integration |
Amazon and Zinus Face Mattress Challenge As Case Sprung After Import Bounce |
Panjiva Daily: Xi’s retaliatory tariff “winners”, hopping vs. stockpiling and steel tariffs trump talks |
Savannah’s Outsize China Exposure Puts Record Handling At Risk |
Oakland’s Capacity Increase Comes as Tariff Challenges Rise and ONE’s Use Falls |
Trump Needs to 3x LNG Sales to Europe To Offset China’s 10% Tariff |
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump takes the gloves off, Fedex falls a fifth time and Hong Kong’s typhoon troubles |
Fedex Falls For Fifth Time as Profitability Pays Competitive Price |
The Gloves Are Off as Trump’s $200 Billion Arrives |
Japan Shrugs Off Trade War With 21 Month Growth Streak But Risks Are Rising |
Huawei and LNG “Winners” From Duty Cuts in Xi’s Trump Tariff Reaction |
Tariffs Trump Global Talks As Steel Capacity Comes Back In Focus |
Hopping May Follow Stockpiling as Supply Chains React to Trump’s $200 billion |
Monday, September 17, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s 10%, Florence’s passage and “done” isn’t done for NAFTA |
NAFTA Watch: Chapter 19 In Focus After Paper Imports Ground Down |
Hawkeye Worth Watching As Japan Makes Weapons-for-Cars Offer To America |
NAFTA Watch: “Done” Isn’t Done for Mexico If Canada Isn’t in USMC |
Trump’s 10% Could Be Worst of Both Worlds – Uncertainty and Ineffectiveness |
India’s “Non-Essential” Duty Doesn’t Deal With The Essential Problem |
Typhoon Mangkhut To Be Followed By Tariffs As Challenges Facing Hong Kong |
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Florence’s Passage May Hurt Caterpillar’s Customers, Supply Chain Secure |
Friday, September 14, 2018
CMA-CGM Moves the Reefer Game On With Technology as Volumes Surge |
Panjiva Daily: UPS’s grand plans, Hapag-Lloyd’s Cali boom and a difficult Taiwan-U.S. deal |
Desired But Difficult Deal Between Taiwan and America Has Few Easy Wins |
Happy Holidays for Decoration Importers Ahead, No Tariff Grinch Yet |
Dark Past, Brighter Outlook For Solar Industry as Tariffs Become the New Normal |
Tariffs Distorting U.S. Trade Price Inflation, Deficit Increase Still Probable |
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Xi’s 4x more effective than Trump’s, COSCO’s pain and Apple’s hopes Xs marks the spot |
Apple Hopes Xs Mark The Spot as U.S. Handset Imports Slide, Values Rise |
GE and Siemens Mexican Operations Saved By Retained American Tariffs |
India Not Interested in Full Trump Trade Deal, May Be Happy With More Energy |
UPS’s Grand Plans Face Mundane Challenges |
Trump’s Feels No Pressure as China Tariffs So Far Widen The Deficit |
Evergreen Not Wilting in California as Hapag-Lloyd Shoots Higher |
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Florence’s widening threats, Expeditors swamped by rivals and Tesla’s tariff challenge |
American Weapons Imports Load Up Ahead of Regulatory Changes |
Shrimp Opportunity For India as U.S. Regs Tighten, Chinese Tariffs Rise |
Tesla and EVs Bear The Brunt of China’s First Round of Retaliation, More to Follow |
Xi and Putin Have An Easy Trade Target, If Oil Cooperates |
Deeper Durban Brings South African Opportunity, Service Diversity Needed |
America Seeks Talks as Xi’s Tariffs Prove 4x as Effective as Trump’s |
COSCO’s Container Carrying Cut by China Tariffs, 2M First For Growth |
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Florence’s threats, peak port performance and finding Trump-Juncker opportunities |
Philippines Trade Boom Supported By Steel, Not Helped By Slow FTA Progress |
Vinacomin’s Coal Ambitions Unlikely To Be Fuelled by Indian Demand |
General Motors Leads Mexican Autos Bounce, Strategy Review May Be Needed |
Uranium Case Active For Longer as Russian and EU Exports Surge |
Trump-Juncker “Early Harvest” More Likely To Be TBT+T Than TTIP-2 |
Hapag-Lloyd Flexes Brazilian Market Share Muscle To Increase Rates |
Florence Threatens Norfolk, Impact May Be Limited By Slower Moving Supply Chains |
Expeditors Swamped By Forwarder Competition as Tariff Effect Ripples Outwards |
Monday, September 10, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump ponders as China hurries, Apple’s price warning and CMA-CGM’s sunny outlook |
Hyundai Set To Power Up In India, Asian Target Markets Missing |
Kia Takes Diversification Road To Mitigate NAFTA, Tariff Risks |
Apple May Flex Pricing Power To Deal With Trump’s China Tariffs |
CMA-CGM Suffers Sector’s Fate, Saadé Still Chipper as Container Profitability Improves |
East-of-Panama Ports Smoke California as Canal Transits Rise, Tariffs Arrive |
18 Months of Port Growth Helped by a Hurricane, Will Be Hindered by Tariffs |
Florence Presents Goods Flow Challenges For Daimler, Gildan |
Sunday, September 09, 2018
Trump Ponders Tariffs as China’s Exporters Hurry Up and Wait |
Friday, September 07, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump ends peak season early, duties corrode steel and Shanghai’s unwelcome surprise |
Rare ITC Case Brought as Strontium Imports Explode |
Starbucks Heads To Italy, Brazil’s Share of Its Global Supply Chain May Perk Up |
Cisco and Juniper’s $24 Billion Trump Problem Unlikely To Be Rerouted |
Rail Near a Crossing, Sailors May Face a Sinking Employment Situation |
Thursday, September 06, 2018
Maersk and MSC’s Service Suspension May Need Extending to Transpacific Lanes |
Target Targets Toy Success By Bucking Import Trend |
Panjiva Daily: Maersk and MSC’s service suspension, unlucky 13 for U.S. deficit and Target’s toy target |
China’s Utility Equipment Providers Lead Export Drive to Syria |
Duties Corrode Rather Than Melt Metals Imports |
Peak of Peak Season Already Passed As Trump’s Tariffs Begin to Bite |
Shanghai’s Unwelcome Surprise as Congestion Coincides with Tariff Proliferation |
Wednesday, September 05, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Awaiting Trump’s $200 billion, Super-typhoon Jebi’s impact and Philaport’s labor risks |
Unlucky 13% for China, NAFTA and EU as American Deficit Surges Ahead of Duties |
Japan’s Worst Storm in 25 Years Raises Supply Chain Risks for Kubota and Sanyo |
Storm Gordon’s Flash Floods Bring Risks to Dole, Hyundai Supply Chains |
Lego Stacks Up Shipments as Demand Recovery Anticipated |
NAFTA Watch: Canada’s Surplus Bounce Could Undermine Mood of Talks |
Tuesday, September 04, 2018
Philaport Faces Labor, But Not China, Risks For Peak Shipping Season |
Panjiva Daily: $1.2 trillion in doubt for 25 days, CH Robinson’s warning and $995 billion of reviews |
Xi’s Africa Initiatives Seek to Diversify Resource-Led Imports, Shake off “Debt Trap” Tag |
Moving Cattle (Quotas) Around One Way to Deliver Trump-Juncker Promise |
President Trump’s Policies Working As American Trade Sentiment Erodes |
Exemptions May Be The Exception as Ruling on Trump’s $200 Billion Duty List Awaited |
American Automakers Accelerate Inventory Build As Sales Slow, Duties Expected |
Monday, September 03, 2018
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in August 2018 |
$995 Billion of Reviews Overshadow ITC Work After A Busy August |
CH Robinson Warns On Capacity as Liners’ Fortunes Appear to Improve |
India May Be The Big Loser From a Splintered RCEP |
Ford’s China SUV Plans Go Inactive Due To China Tariffs, Parts May Follow |
NAFTA Watch: At Least 25 Days of Doubt for $1.2 Trillion of Trade, Midterms Matter More |
KORUS A Step Closer as South Korea’s Trade Boom Completes Month 22 |
Friday, August 31, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Malmstrom offers a deal, Kerry storms ahead and ZIM feel the need for speed |
26 Month Low in Chinese Import Sentiment Shows Cost of Widening Trade Battle |
Thursday, August 30, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Digging into NAFTA quotas, logistics growth slashed and the Empire’s mean conquering |
(Poor) Business As Usual Reigns For Japan’s Automakers As U.S. Duties Loom |
ZIM Feels The Need For Speed as CMA-CGM Shows Need for Premium Offerings |
Citic May Need To Strike New Deals to Sell Its Wheels In Face of Steel Tariffs |
CMA-CGM Joins the Felixstowe Exodus To Take Advantage of Indian Opportunity |
Malmstrom Offers To Strike a Deal as Jaguar and Audi Race Tariffs |
Kerry’s Profits Storm Ahead as China-U.S. Tariff Clouds Gather |
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Deficit’s double trouble, Maersk takes customers to tasks and unintended s301 effects |
Global Logistics Activity Growth Halves in July, Worse May Be Around the Corner |
Record For Transits Doesn’t Mean Suez-Panama Canal Competition Is Over |
Empire State Ports Conquer National Average, China A Bigger Risk Than Peers |
Canadian Foresters Win, American Journalists Lost as Paper Case Thrown Out |
Aston Martin Heads East As U.S. Shipments Decelerate, IPO Beckons |
RCEP Conclusion “In Sight” But May Be Out of Reach |
FMC Plans IPO As Lithium Export Values Soar, Chilean Risks Mount |
NAFTA Watch: Quotas May Be a Worry For Nissan and GM Even After ROOs Agreed |
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s MUSTA passed, China-U.S. prep fails and THE Alliance heads to Hamburg |
Felixstowe’s Failings Leads Orient Overseas to Follow Maersk’s Lead, For Now |
Mexico’s Trade Boom Generates Record Surplus vs. U.S., Raises USMTA Questions |
March of the Robots Halted By Demand Not Duties |
German Business Trusts in Trump While French Are Fatalistic |
Maersk Takes Customers to Task as Brazilian Containerized Freight Demand Slips |
Unintended Consequences of s301 Tariffs Include Crane Duties Failing to Reach Targets |
Double Trouble in Trade as U.S. Deficit Expands, Autos Reach a 19 Month Peak |
Monday, August 27, 2018
Korean Denuclearization Tied To Trade Tariffs as China’s DPRK Exports Rise |
Global Trade Growth Below Average But a Reversal May Be Some Way Off |
Korea in CPTPP Brings Mexican Opportunity, KORUS and NAFTA Triangulation Issues |
NAFTA Watch: Trump’s MUSTA Passed, Cows-for-Cars Choice Ahead for Canada |
ZIM Zapped By Fuel Costs as Volumes Charge Upwards |
THE Alliance Doubles Bremen’s Woes, Helps Hamburg Reach Newark |
Trump-Xi Summit Prep Ends In a Whole Lot of See-You-Later, Ports Pay The Price |
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump-Xi summit prep begins, CMA-CGM’s typhoon flag and MSC’s Mexican move |
Monday, August 20, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Maersk’s dip typical, Hapag-Lloyd and ONE’s craze for reefers and Perry’s $29 billion wave-off |
Perry’s $29 Billion Wave-off Won’t Help Trump’s Energy and Trade Policies |
PdVSA Checks One Problem Off The List, May Not Reverse U.S. Import Slump |
Sodastream Got Busy, Looking a Little Less Fizzy as Pepsico Arrives |
Rocky Road Ahead of Kent, Giant as Bicycle Duties Approach |
Walmart to Makeup for Potential Tariff Losses With Cosmetics Supply Chain Changes |
CMA-CGM Raises Typhoon Flag, May Be More Exposed Than Most |
A $32 Billion Deal Now, $260 Billion Later as Trump-Xi Summit Prep Begins |
MSC Capitalizes on Trucking Costs and Complexity for Mexican Maritime Growth |
Sunday, August 19, 2018
Seattle Soars as American Ports Deliver 5% Growth Despite Widening Tariffs |
Maersk’s 2Q Dip Typical For Liners, 3Q Recovery Far From Assured |
Friday, August 17, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Delivering the Trump-Juncker promise, Maersk’s win and a sticky shipyard situation |
Hapag-Lloyd, ONE Mad For Reefers as U.S. Traffic Hits a Record High |
Houston’s Handling Hike Hints at Steel Tariff Failure |
Steel Surplus Sloshing Into India May Drive Safeguarding Drive |
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Trump-Juncker Follow-up Agenda – Set Ground Rules, Avoid Car Wars, Deliver Food |
Panjiva Daily: Expeditors loses out ahead of tariffs, coal pays the steel price and SoCal not so good |
Charleston Confirms East Coast Supremacy in July Traffic Growth |
Japan’s Slowing Export Growth Can Be Blamed On, and Reversed By American Talks |
Hapag-Lloyd, Indian Auto-parts Allow Norfolk to Grow Even as China’s Volumes Stagnate |
Container-line Margins At Hanjin-Era Levels Unlikely to Correct Sickly Shipyard Situation |
China Tariff Rush Bypasses Hong Kong as Traffic Falls For a Sixth Month |
Maersk Wins, COSCO Loses as China Tariffs Have a Minimal Effect on Liners’ Volumes |
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s trade war so far, Erdogan should target scrap not iPhones and HMM’s 12 for 13 |
Expeditors Loses to CH Robinson as China Tariff Implementation Approaches |
Coal and Cars Pay the Price as Turkey Responds to Trump’s Metals Move |
$7 Billion Oil Deal To Assure Sanctions Relief for India May Not Be Enough |
India Flanges Squeezed Down Other Sales Pipes as America Implements Duties |
SoCal Not So Good As Chinese Import Growth Lags Even As Duty Widening Beckons |
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Erdogan Threatens American Electronics, Should Target Scrap and Cotton |
Panjiva Daily: Deploying Trump’s Turkey tool, a back-to-school scorecard and Evergreen’s wilting |
77 Month High in Trade Inflation Could Spur Another Round of American Tariffs |
Make in India No Impediment to Trade Growth So Far, Drug Price Restrictions Could Be |
HMM Sheds Volumes But Can’t Boost Earnings as Losses Hit 12 Out of 13 Quarters |
Montreal Deals With Success While Rupert’s Capacity-Led Growth Boom Slows |
Trump’s $600 Billion Trade War So Far in Seven Charts |
Monday, August 13, 2018
Duties in The Pipeline As Indian Stainless Steel Imports Surge |
Trump’s Turkey Tool Could Be 4x As Effective If Deployed Against China and Russia |
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s tariff innovation, peak season’s roar and Motegi-Lighthizer’s missed chance |
Evergreen Wilts, Yang Ming In The Red But Both Continue Quest for Volumes |
Savannah’s 21 Month Growth Streak Faces Less Plain Sailing Ahead |
Pumpkin Spice Fad Set To Heat Up As Imports Grow |
Schoolwear, Not Hardware, Doing Best in Back-to-School Import Season |
Sunday, August 12, 2018
The Unsurprising Missed Opportunity From Motegi-Lighthizer Talks |
Trump’s Tariff Innovation Targets Turkey, May Hit Thyssen and Mannesmann |
NAFTA Watch: Business as Usual For VW and Honda as Regulatory Risk Swirls |
Panama Slot Reallocation Bears Fruit as Suez Challenge Remains Stiff |
Peak Shipping Season Roars As Bulk of Trump’s Tariffs Have Yet To Bite |
Philippines’ Trade Growth a Game Of Two Halves, One Big Risk |
Friday, August 10, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Expeditors leads the surge, America’s ports hit a record and “Make in India” tightens |
“Make In India” Reaches Textiles, Doubling Duties and Jeopardizing RCEP |
Pegatron Plans Production Shift, Not Price Hikes Ahead of Duties |
Quick Fix Opportunity To Deliver LNG Win For Trump-Juncker Process |
Hapag-Lloyd Slides But Geopolitical Risks Look Manageable |
Thursday, August 09, 2018
BMW and Daimler Pay Price, Oil Escapes in China’s Latest Trump Tariff Retaliation |
5.5x Bigger Worry Boosts China Trade as 3.9x Larger Problem Remains |
Panjiva Daily: Maersk’s misery, logistics wins while BMW and Daimler lose in $16 billion tariff exchange |
Philly Less Full As MSC Restructures Europe-LatAm Service |
Wheel Case May Get Anti-dumping Petitions Rolling With $200 Billion List Clarity |
Ikea Unpacks More Chinese Furniture in India Than America |
Expeditors Leads Forwarders’ Revenue Surge, Competitive Restraint Needed Next |
America’s Ports Hit a Record as Tariff Scramble Continues, Maersk Lifts New York |
Wednesday, August 08, 2018
Maersk and Orient Overseas Suffer Similar Problems, Differ on Outlook and Response |
Logistics Industry Spared Trump’s Tariff Wroth as Containers Gain Exclusion |
Sunday, August 05, 2018
Xi’s $60 Billion Riposte to Trump’s $200 Billion Hurts Lumberjacks and Miners |
Friday, August 03, 2018
Panjiva Daily: AMLO follows Trump’s example, steel circumvention in focus and Liverpool’s woes |
Circumvention Test Case Will Set Precedent For Steel 232 “Optimization” |
Trade War Quote Watch: Two-Fifths of Firms Raise Prices, Just A Quarter Retool Supply Chains |
Thursday, August 02, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump ups the rates ante, CH Robinson’s China risks and container rates inch ahead |
Decelerating Japanese Auto Exporters Await Motegi-Lighthizer Meet to Avoid Slump |
Container Rates Inch Ahead as Fightback from 2Q Gets Underway |
CH Robinson Does (Almost) All The Right Things But Faces China Tariff Risks |
Volvo Faces XL Regulatory Risk as XC Sales Surge |
Foreign Trucks Crush American Cars As Auto Sales Stagnate, Tariffs Awaited |
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in July 2018 |
Long Haul Liners Not Loving Liverpool as Maersk’s Felixstowe Woes Head Northwest |
AMLO Takes a (Single) Leaf From Trump’s Playbook With China |
Brookstone Bankruptcy Follows Later-Than-Usual Holiday Shipping Season |
Wednesday, August 01, 2018
Panjiva Daily: DSV’s decision, Hapag-Lloyd’s Stuttgart warning and AD/CV petitioners’ pause |
Apple’s Nice Device Price Rise Shows Potential For Tariff Resilience |
Steve Madden Unconcerned About Tariffs Due To Common Supply Chain Strategy |
Anticipation of Trump’s Next Move Leads AD Petitioners To Hang Fire |
Upbeat Drum Beaten A Little Less Hard As American Trade Sentiment Moderates |
Steel Saves South Korean Trade From Auto-Inspired Decline |
Coordinated Assault on Trump’s Auto Tariffs May Not Be That Coordinated |
Trump’s Rate Rise Targets Policy, Could Precipitate Supply Chain Changes |
Matson Makes Merry in Logistics, Faces Same Fate as Peers in Liner Business |
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Trump’s EU Soybean Success Assured This Fall By Brazilian Seasonality |
Panjiva Daily: ONE’s poor report card, Dow and Syngenta’s MTB opportunity and DSV’s new rail service |
Hapag-Lloyd’s Stuttgart Warning Carries Risks For Daimler’s Supply Chain |
America Takes Aim At India For Arms Sales As Red-Tape Attacked |
Tyson Slices Outlook After Tariffs Butcher Pork Shipments To Mexico |
China Turns Negative on Trade Outlook |
DSV’s Decisions Sacrifice Volumes For Better Profits as Retention Ratio Rises |
ONE’s First Report Card – Must Try Harder, Will Try Harder |
Monday, July 30, 2018
Panjiva Daily: The $15 Billion duty debate, NAFTA’s Mexican trade problem and BRICS unbuilt |
Dow and Syngenta Set For MTB Win, Presidential Passage Not Guaranteed |
India’s Saudi Rice Relations Sour As Exports Reach a Rolling Boil |
Siemens-Gamesa Not Yet Blown Over By Duties, Further Headwinds Possible |
BMW Follows Tesla in China Price Rise as U.S. Auto Exports Head Into Reverse |
BRICS Build Nothing New as China-India Axis Dominates Trade Flows |
Peru’s Corn Case May Be The Canary In The Coal Mine for American Support Retaliation |
DSV’s Spain-to-China Service Slices Shipping Schedule for Sanofi and BMW |
Sunday, July 29, 2018
$15 Billion Duty Debate After Trump-Juncker Deal Will Still Need Autos Deal |
Friday, July 27, 2018
European Export Sentiment Diverges, Trump-Juncker Deal Could Unify |
China’s Shipyards Are Doing Better, But Still Not Doing Well |
Ferrari Deliveries Can Accelerate With Italy-China Rail Service |
Panjiva Daily: Who’s doing what due to tariffs, Trump’s success slips and CMA-CGM’s open-ended fuel charge |
Big Rush to the Big Apple Helps COSCO Shipping and Evergreen Now, Will Hurt Later |
NAFTA Watch: Mexico’s Slowing Trade Growth Bodes Ill For NAFTA Negotiations |
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Auto Exports Skid, Leading Trump’s Trade Deficit Success Off Course in June |
Panjiva Daily: Juncker & Trump’s $160 billion path, farmers’ $12 billion defense and UPS’s 8th decline |
NYK’s Guidance Cut a Second Canary In The Bunker Fuel Mine |
Trump and Juncker’s $160 Billion Path Starts With €37 Billion Bean-and-Gas Based Deal |
Mattel’s Struggles Not New, Appears Unworried About Trump’s Tariff Threat |
Fanuc Tariff Troubles Are Macroeconomic, Not Supply Chain Drive |
CMA-CGM Makes Fuel Charge Permanent To Avoid Hapag-Lloyd and NYK’s Fate |
$12 Billion of Protection from Protectionism as Beans and Pork Suffer For Trump’s Tariffs |
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s offer vs. Juncker’s de-escalation, Ceva delivers and SeaTac’s rail pain |
Last Hurrah For the Global Trade Party As Activity Growth Starts to Slow |
Transformation vs. China Will Define UPS’s 2018 After 8th Straight Profitability Decline |
American Maritime Trade Growth Accelerates Ahead of Trump’s Deficit-Limiting Tariffs |
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s all-in China threat, shipyards’ decade low and Charleston’s double jeopardy |
Brazilian Bean Bounce Set to Continue As Harvest Improves, China Demand Grows |
Ceva Ties Growth and Profitability Together, China Tariff Challenge Lies Ahead |
China Furnishes Savannah With An Opportunity To Avoid A Tariff Downturn, For Now |
California’s Heatwave Problem Needs a Lemon-Entry Solution |
Tariffs Shouldn’t Dim Solar Power Installations, Import Outlook Cloudier |
Houston Heads Higher as Mexico and China Bring Diverging Trends |
Rail Pain Pails Next to China Troubles For SeaTac’s Sustained Struggles |
Monday, July 23, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Juncker’s deal for Trump, ZIM’s deal with 2M and Southwest’s new Mexican deal |
China Takes the Shine Off Stainless Steel as Response to Safeguarding Epidemic |
Bourbon’s Outlook Groggy as Duties Proliferate |
Toyota Can Avoid Tariff Car Crash, Can Swerve Supply Chain Considerations |
Rates Matter More Than Targets For Trump’s All-In China Commitment |
Double Jeopardy For Charleston as China, Autos Tariffs Threaten Two Fifths of Traffic |
Decade-Low in Shipyard Exports Show Lack of Confidence in Logistics Outlook |
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Southwest Airlines Launches Into Soaring Mexican Airfreight Sector |
Trump-Juncker Autos Tariffs Meeting Raises Risks for Beans, Needles and Routers |
Friday, July 20, 2018
America Set to Hit Japan Harder Than China as Export Growth Stalls |
Commerce Has Energy For Uranium Case as Russian Exports Charge Ahead |
Seattle-Tacoma’s Recovery Likely Short-Lived as Virus Passes, Tariffs Awaited |
Iran’s Loss in Japan Could Be America’s Gain as Oil Sanctions Bite |
ZIM Deal With Maersk and MSC Has Fewer Strings Attached |
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Panjiva Daily: K+N’s route to success, Mnuchin’s strategic twofer and COSCO’s cancellation |
K+N and Panalpina Show There’s More Than One Way to Deliver |
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Panalpina reaps the rewards, CMA-CGM WAXes lyrical and galvanizing the Senate |
CMA-CGM WAXes Lyrical About Asia-to-Gulf Trade Opportunity |
20 Months of Growth for Canadian Ports At Risk from the China-America Trade Spat |
Mnuchin’s Sanctions Delay Offer Carries Twofer Policy Objective |
COSCO Pays Price Before Tariffs Bite With Third TransPac Service Withdrawal |
PIL and Maersk’s California’s Nightmare Shouldn’t Be Overstated |
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Panjiva Daily: 2M’s bigger bet, light in the liners’ tunnel and Trump’s impact on back-to-school shipping |
Panalpina Reaps the Reward For Slower Ocean Revenue Growth |
Autos Retaliation Risk May Galvanize Senators To Act Against Trump’s Trade Powers |
Suez Pile-up Comes as Transits Climb, Vessels Get Heavier |
Metals Retaliation-Squared Risks Tariff Spiral For Surgeons and Engineers |
Monday, July 16, 2018
Panjiva Daily: 2M reaps from the whirlwind, Maersk bets as others blink and big tech’s tariff worries |
India’s 22 Month Trade Boom Faces Uncertain Future |
Boeing’s Farnborough Experience May Be Marred by U.S.-China Tariff Spat |
Kids Need To Pack Quickly for School as Trump’s Tariffs Wait At Summer’s End |
NAFTA Watch: The End of July Can’t Come Soon Enough |
Tapered Bearings Roll More Swiftly as Duties Overturned But s232 Beckons |
Light In The Tunnel For Container-Lines’ Earnings, If You Squint |
2M Takes Bigger Bet On North Europe to North America Volumes |
Sunday, July 15, 2018
Oakland’s A-Grade Performance Not Just Dependent on China |
Hapag-Lloyd Least Exposed as Norfolk Misses Out on China Duty Traffic Surge |
Duties Bring Cost Concerns, Not Supply Chain Panic For Quanta and Foxconn |
Maersk Bets Blink By MSC and THE Will Support Westbound Transpacific Rates |
2M Reaps The Benefit of China’s Surge, Ocean May Pay The Price for Tariffs |
Friday, July 13, 2018
Panjiva Daily: UPS loses out to OEC, Ceva’s contribution to CMA-CGM and Maersk’s Liverpool Shift |
Hapag-Lloyd Recognizes Reality of Brazilian Competition With Peak Surcharge |
Uniqlo Unconcerned About Tariffs, But Isn’t Acting That Way |
Trump Tariff Rush Boosts China Trade, Steel Shows All Is Not Lost |
Trade Inflation Supports Further Trump Deficit Success, But Volumes May Win Out |
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Trump Will Call British Trade Deal Shots as May Needs to Protect Autos and Pharma |
Panjiva Daily: $20 billion vs. $200 billion, Trump calls the British deal shots and Long Beach tariff terror |
Home Depot and Ikea Shelves On The Rack As Two Steel Cases Overlap |
Senate Agrees To Restrict Trump’s National Security Strategy, No Vehicle Yet |
Soybean Slump Belies Brazil’s Seasonal Supplies to China |
Maersk’s Felixstowe Shift Gives Grimaldi and Hapag-Lloyd an Opportunity |
Ceva Could Contribute Container Volumes to CMA-CGM’s Profit Recovery Plan |
Big Brown in the Red – UPS Declines While Orient Express Races Ahead of Tariffs |
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Cargo’s Up At New York While Long Beach Faces Terror of Tariffs |
China’s Response To Trump Needs To Be $20 Billion, Not $200 Billion |
Panjiva Daily: Unpacking $200 billion, Oakland’s battery charge and Trump’s Pfizer threat |
Apparel and LCD Supply Chains Face Disruption Risk from Typhoon Maria |
Batteries Charge Up Oakland’s Growth, Still Reliant on ONE Even as OOIL Expands |
The $200 Billion Nuclear Option Is (Nearly) Ready – FAANGs and Consumers Start to Pay |
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
CMA-Evergreen or Hapag-Yang Ming Better Options Than CGM-Lloyd |
Fiesta Not Part of Mexico’s Auto Export Party as NAFTA, 232 Review Lay Ahead |
Panjiva Daily: CMA-Hapag not the best deal option, Long Beach buyers and last chance deliveries |
Last Chance Deliveries Boost U.S. Imports in June Ahead of Trump’s July Duties |
Two-Fifths Of Falling Philippine Exports Exposed to U.S.-China Tariff Spat |
Trump’s Pfizer Threat May Already Be Working Behind The Scenes |
Monday, July 09, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s trade strategy wins, THE bites the bullet and Maersk adds Mexican rail routes |
Trump’s Tariffs Trim, Don’t Yet Transform, Imports of Section 232 Metals |
Tesla Price Hike Hits Chinese Car Buyers After Xi’s Retaliation Bites |
Maersk’s Mexican Port Rail Route May Hinder Its Texan Liner Service |
DP World, ICTSI Make Most Sense For COSCO’S Long Beach Departure |
Trump Brings NATO To The Trade Deficit Party as Weapons Exports Soar |
CMA-CGM Makes Most of Panama as Transits Rise on Tariff Rush, Lower Maintenance |
Sunday, July 08, 2018
THE Alliance Bites The Bullet And Cuts Shanghai, LA Service |
Friday, July 06, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Logistics M&A quietens, unpacking the first $68 billion and HamSu heads south |
Samsung To Dial Up Lower Profits as U.S. Phone Imports Slide |
Trump’s Trade Strategy Wins, With Qualifications |
South Korean Chips May Be Second-Tier Victim in China-U.S. Trade Battle |
Local Content Rules Come To Indian Solar Projects, Supports Longi’s New Factory |
Logistics Jobs Surge Into Peak Season, Tariffs May Help Before They Hinder |
Canada Faces Trade Challenges Even Before American 232 Reviews Bite |
Thursday, July 05, 2018
Panjiva Daily: 10 global supply chain issues for 2H18, the EU’s tariff proposals and Evergreen’s reefers |
Rockport Hikes Out of Bankruptcy As Imports Slow, Supply Chain Shifts |
Protectionism’s Rise Set To Erode Global Trade Liberalization as U.S.-China Tariffs Arrive |
Jaguar Land Rover’s Brexit Warning Arrives As British Auto Exports Already in Reverse |
Hamburg Sud Heads South As Hapag-Lloyd Builds Brazilian Business Further |
Mini-M&A by CMA-CGM and DP-DHL Typify Quiet Quarter for Logistics, Resurgence Due |
Three Lessons For WTO Steel Challengers From a Canada-U.S. Paper Case |
Wednesday, July 04, 2018
Strikes Cut Soybean Opportunity for Brazilian Exports to China |
Tariff Mood Music No Good For Moog As Manufacturing Move Considered |
Seafreight Beats Air Again in May Before Tariffs Start to Take Their Toll |
Trump’s Auto-Tariff Target May Not Be Changed by EU Proposal, Automakers Relaxed |
2H18 Outlook: From $300 billion to the Midterms – 10 Global Supply Chain Issues to Watch |
Tuesday, July 03, 2018
Maersk Faces Felixstowe’s Transatlantic Challenges, Southampton Switch Possible |
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in June 2018 |
Panjiva Daily: A $34 billion trade battle prelude, AMLO’s food price risk and AD/CV cases out of fashion |
Antidumping Petitions Slump as American Industry Awaits Trump’s Tariff Actions |
Guinness Hopes to Make Irish Eyes Smile As Constellation’s Mexican Brands Rules |
Colombia’s Coffee Leadership May Slip as Starbucks Stockpiling Ends, Tariffs Bite |
Evergreen Grows Reefers as Market Heats Up |
Monday, July 02, 2018
Panjiva Daily: EU’s $300 billion challenge to Trump, Hapag-Lloyd’s cut and COSCO’s nearly done deal |
It’s Yuan vs. Duties as China Sets Scene for American Tariff War Impact |
Korea Better Without Boats But End of Asian Export Boom May Be Nigh |
Europe’s $300 Billion Warning to Trump Could Hit Autos, Doctors and Wildcatters |
COSCO Shipping’s Orient Overseas Bid Approved, Now The Difficult Work Starts |
Late Explosion Shoots Independence Day Fireworks To Record High |
Perplexed, Not Panicked, American Manager Sentiment Could Turn Quickly |
AMLO May Go Food Shopping as Mexican Retaliation Raises Retail Risks |
July 6 Just a $34 Billion Prelude To Sustained Trump vs. Xi Tariff Battle |
Sunday, July 01, 2018
Pemex Needs New Oil Mouths to Feed as Paraiso Port Expansion Prepared |
Hapag-Lloyd Cuts as Rate Rises Prove a Better Quarter Isn’t Good Enough |
Friday, June 29, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trudeau-Trump spat gets real, Venezuela oil sanctions return and $14 billion of waste |
North Korea Gets More From China as U.S. Talks Continue |
Toyota Cuts Exports, Warns of Duties as Japan’s Big Seven Automakers’ Growth Slows |
Sharp Cuts Share Deal as Trump’s Tariffs Trim Chinese Exports |
Trudeau-Trump Trade Troubles Get Real As Canadian Retaliation Lands |
Fast Train To China Increasingly Popular With Poles as BRI Benefits Begin |
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Panjiva Daily: AMLO looms over NAFTA, Trump’s trade deficit success and Wan Hai’s ambitions |
H&M’s Struggles Self-Inflicted – At Least Tariffs Aren’t a Problem |
China Beefs Up Meat Supply with British Options Ahead of U.S. Duties |
MSC and Maersk Drive New York To Near-Record Volumes, China Could Spoil the Party |
Vancouver to Vanquish Constrained Growth With New Investment |
Osram’s Prospects Dim as Automotive Lighting Tariffs Guide the Way |
Valero and Trafigura Stock Up as Pompeo Ponders Venezuela Oil Sanctions |
America’s $14 Billion Waste Problem Needs Indian Home as Thailand Bans Plastics |
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Grimaldi’s scrubber optimism, Trump’s Colombian ambition and soybean politics return |
Homebuilders Pay The Price (Again) For U.S. Duties, This Time It’s Soil Pipes |
JSW Unworried About Trump’s Tariffs As Domestic Demand Picks Up The Slack |
Canada’s Metals Safeguard May Hit America Hardest |
Soybean Politics Back on The Menu As China Cuts Duties, India Could Win |
Grimaldi Optimistic About Scrubbers as ACL Market Share Holds Station |
Trump’s Trade Deficit Success Faces Retaliatory Duty Test |
NAFTA Watch: Mexico’s Trade Boom Depends On NAFTA, Which Depends on AMLO |
Wan Hai Wants Higher Market Share, Could Be More Ambitious |
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Harley’s tariff jump, Kansas City’s Mexican long-haul and chassis unite regional rivals |
RCEP Deal Potential Improves on Xi-Modi Agreement, “Make in India” Still a Challenge |
German Export Sentiment Wanes as Automakers Prepare For the Worst |
Kansas City Southern Has An Eye To The Long Haul With Nuevo Laredo Terminal |
HP and Dell’s Dilemma – Early Back-to-School or Preemptive Panic? |
Trump’s Colombian Ambition May Be Sated With Jets and Cars |
LaZBoy Awake to Tariff Risks, Imports Surging For Now |
Monday, June 25, 2018
Hapag-Lloyd and CMA-CGM Delivery Surge Can’t Save Virginia From Decline |
Panjiva Daily: Biting FAANGs, Yang Ming’s Worries and Car Wars’ Next Episode |
Hyundai and GM Rely on Paik’s Persuasiveness Ahead of Section 232 Review |
Canada Considers a Barrier Against American Wallboard |
Volvo’s Evolving Supply Chain Can’t Prevent Tariff Risks |
Car Wars Likely To Have Several Episodes as Trump Threatens 20% Duties |
27 Likely To Become 28 As Protectionism Has Yet To Bite Global Trade Growth |
Harley Hates Tariff Effect, Supply Chain Retooling Will Need Capacity Hike |
Chassis Pool Opportunity Unifies Regional Rivals |
Sunday, June 24, 2018
FAANGs May Be Bitten By Trump’s Proposed Tariffs |
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Panjiva Daily: MSC’s Eagle grounded, Daimler’s triple tariff threat and bearing up in the face of duties |
Singapore’s Second Slip Comes Ahead of Risks To Transit Hub Status |
China Faces Another Grilling as Steel Racking Exports Are Investigated |
Daimler Facing Triple Whammy With China-U.S. Tariff War, NAFTA On The Road Ahead |
Tariffs The Least of Hong Kong’s Worries as Port Volumes Slide |
Yang Ming’s Tariff Battle Concerns Time Limited, Could Still Crimp Volumes |
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
A Year of Living Miserably For Seattle and Tacoma Could Be Exacerbated by Tariffs |
Panjiva Daily: Fedex’s tariff risks, bans and blankets are options for China and India’s nutty retaliation |
No Respite For Shipyards as Chinese Domestic Orders Are Withdrawn |
Cork’s New Terminal Provides Post-Brexit Global Shipping Opportunity |
Fedex Profitability Fell in 4Q, Faces Tariff Risks to Recovery Outlook |
MSC’s Eagle Grounded as West Coast Growth Slows, Trade War Beckons |
National Security Review May Have More Bearing on Imports Than Commerce Case |
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Bans and Blankets Provide China With Ammunition To Tackle Trump’s $250 Billion |
India Goes (Elsewhere For) Nuts In Retaliation for America’s Metals Duties |
Panjiva Daily: Finding Trump’s next $200 billion, Wilhelmsen’s tariff challenge and the Italy problem |
America’s Unsurprising Aluminum Decision Cuts Chinese Supplies But Not Others’ |
Wallenius Wilhelmsen and COSCO Shipping Face Spillover from China-U.S. Trade War |
Europe’s Italian Trade Problem May Spill Into Mexico Trade Negotiations |
India Oil May Provide Respite to American Crude Producers as China Weighs Duties |
Texas Gets Bigger As Hapag-Lloyd Leads Houston’s Port Handling Growth |
Maersk Dances Ahead of CMA-CGM in Charleston as European Routes Turn Choppy |
Monday, June 18, 2018
Panjiva Daily: TVs off for Trump’s tariff war as China shows energy and drive |
Construction Costs Grow, Imports Felled as Lumber Caucus Emerges |
Osaka Earthquake Carries Risks for Marubeni, Nakanishi Supply Chains |
Hapag-Lloyd Hikes to Profit From Evergreen Exit, Faces CMA-CGM Competition |
Maersk’s Reefer Shift to China Comes as Duties Arrive, Demand Recovers |
21 Months Of Indian Trade Growth Helped By Oil, Not Yet Hindered by Tariffs |
Japan’s Trade Surge Shrugs Off American Metals Duties, May Be Tripped By Autos |
Three Filters For Trump’s $200 billion Retaliation Against Retaliation |
China Has Energy and Drive For a Trade War With Trump |
Friday, June 15, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Four issues in Trump’s China tariffs, and early auto review and Cali’s crummy month |
NAFTA Watch: No Dates For Talks Should Be No Problem And Could Be Helpful |
Midterm Optics, China Targeting May Drive Early Completion of Autos Security Review |
Four Issues to Watch While Waiting For Trump’s China Tariffs |
Televisions Off, Chips Thrown In – Trump’s China Tariffs In Three Charts |
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Liners’ antitrust risks, Orient’s deal deadline and Maersk’s new Canada service |
NYK Set To Capture Accelerating Car Carrier Demand With Europe-Brazil Service |
Container-Lines’ Antitrust Exemption at Risk as Consolidation Continues |
Maersk Looks To Surf Rising Tide of China-Canada Traffic With New Service |
Protectionist Actions Come Home To Roost As Import Inflation Hits Six Year High |
Cali’s Worst Month Since September 2016 Comes as China Duties Loom |
Trump’s Cheap Drug Objective Needs Domestic Focus As Imports Get Ever Cheaper |
Savannah’s 19 Month Growth Streak Faces China Duty Risks |
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Panjiva Daily: MSC rationalizes as ONE struggles, DPRK detente vs. defense and U.S-China tariff stakes |
Mylan and Cipla Get Regulatory Help As China Draws On Indian Medicines |
Mexican Pork Diversification May Prove A Rasher Strategy Than Paying Duties |
Battle Royale Set For Holiday Videogame Sales as Nintendo Wanes, Xbox Scores |
Plenty at Stake in China-U.S. Beef Debate Ahead of Tariff Conflict |
Citgo, Valero Face U.S. Oil Supply Challenge Despite America’s Gushing Oil Exports |
Suez Surge Shows Impact of Trump’s Metals Duties, Resilience vs. Conflict |
Dover’s Woes a Sign of What’s To Come as British Port Traffic Reverses |
Orient Overseas Surges Ahead as COSCO Deal Deadline Approaches |
General Motors’ Mexican Export Success Hides Sales Issues, Regulatory Risks |
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Cheniere and Dominion Are Potential Hostages In The s301 Tariff Battle |
Xi-Rouhani Cooperation Maintains Oil Flows As American Sanctions Arrive |
Damco’s China Rail Move Helps Maersk Fend Off Forwarder Threat To Ocean Volumes |
Cheap Chinese Washers Protect Consumers from Duties As Samsung Roars Back |
Defense Industry May Be A Victim of Trump’s Metals Duties and DPRK Detente |
MSC Calls For Rationalization as U.S. Containers Hit Record, ONE Struggles |
Panjiva Daily: Expeditors hurries in May, Maersk’s defensive rail move and ABB’s unappetizing options |
Monday, June 11, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Coal-for-nukes, the next Trudeau-Trump trade battle and Newark-NY’s lead |
Xi-Modi $100 billion Target Achievable, Shows SCO Could Go Further |
Ikea’s American Growth Surge Doesn’t Prevent Planning For Tariff Risk and India |
NAFTA Watch: G7 Failure Raises Curtain on Next Trudeau-Trump Trade Battle |
Coal-for-Nukes Deal The Best Outcome From Trump-Kim Summit |
Kerry Goes Early, But Maybe Too Soon, With China-Turkey Rail Service |
China Set To Seek More Imports From CEEC, EU Membership An Issue |
Expeditors and Orient Express Hurry in May, Face China Tariff Brake Later |
ABB Has Few Options To Transform Its Business After Trump’s Steel Tariff Shock |
Sunday, June 10, 2018
Newark-New York The Growth Leader As Port Volumes Surge |
Friday, June 08, 2018
Panjiva Daily: UPS goes small, ONE goes late and American imports from Europe go large |
Brazil’s Farmers to Count Fewer Chicken Exports as China Hatches New Tariffs |
May’s Metals Plea Borne of Less Exposure, Impact of Less Relevance |
New UPS Routes Come As Less-Than-Container Loads Prove Less Than Thrilling |
Fraught China-U.S. Relations Not Helped By Surging Surplus in May |
India-Iran Trade Talks Could Boost Cars and Drugs, If Sanctions Can Be Addressed |
Philippine Export Woes Centered on Japan Now, China Later |
Thursday, June 07, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Corker’s pop at Trump, deficit rise #14 and east coast strikes averted |
Japan’s Pork Farmers Might Not Link With U.S. Consumers Despite Rule Change |
Pay Deal Cuts Peak Season Dispute Risk, Port Automation Yet To Be Addressed |
Panama’s Record Beset By Commodity Volatility, Lackluster Diversions |
ONE Not First on Fuel, Aiming To Make Up For Lost Time |
Renewables Not Replaceable (At The Price) As Section 201 Tariffs Bite |
Euro-panic About Tariffs May Have Driven 7% Surge in Seaborne Imports in May |
Wednesday, June 06, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Tyson punched by Trump’s tariffs, COSCO’s copper concerns and Vietnam’s plastic pain |
Chinese Wheel Exports Will Roll On As National Security Review Takes Priority |
India Set To Produce Lithium-Ion Batteries as Imports Charge Upwards |
Vedanta’s Copper Court Case Could Disrupt Glencore, Doha Cables Supply Chains |
Jack and Harley Have As Much To Gain as Thyssen and SSAB In EU-U.S. Steel Detente |
American Coffee Exports Less Perky After Canada Reacts To Trump’s Metals Tariffs |
Brown-Forman Stocks The Cabinet To Preempt Metal Duties Retaliation |
Good News Isn’t Always Good News As Canada’s Trade Activity Growth Streak Extends |
Deficit Rise #14 Shows Trump’s On The Right Track In Tackling China and Europe |
Corker’s Pop At Trump’s 232 Ability Aims To Avoid Auto Supply Chain Disruption |
Tuesday, June 05, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Life from 1449 cuts, COSCO’s part to play and chips face chop in China |
SCO Talks To Focus on Security, May Be Distracted by “Make in India” |
Summit May Focus on Renewed China Steel Growth But Local Actions More Likely |
Memory Chips Face Chop as China Mixes Antitrust and Trade Policy Objectives |
Vietnam’s Plastic Pain May Be India’s Gain as Waste Streams Divert From China |
COSCO’s Peruvian Port Represents a $2 Billion Bet on Copper |
JBS and Tyson Pay The Mexican Price for Trump’s Metals Duties |
COSCO May Need To Take More From The Team as Hyundai MM Supports Shipyards |
Monday, June 04, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Making a stick from a carrot, antitrust rate risks rise and trade optimism slips |
Mexican Farmers May Be Squashed by America’s Tomato Ruling |
NAFTA Watch: Canada Opens Another Front in Agricultural Trade Battle |
WTO Steel Appeal Real as Canada, EU and Japan Follow Solar Power Strategy |
China Makes Stick Out of Carrot As Ross-Liu Talks Fail To Reach A Deal |
MSC’s Fuel, Hapag-Lloyd’s Handling Surcharges Help Rates as Antitrust Risks Rise |
Auto Sales Slow, Imports May Recover After Trump’s Surprise Car Case |
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in May 2018 |
Life From 1449 Cuts As Chinese Tariff Reductions Target Cakes and Shoes |
Sunday, June 03, 2018
America’s Trade Optimism Fades as Trump’s Tariff Tactics Bear Fruit |
55 Month Logistics Payrolls Growth Streak Faces Tariff War Kickoff Risk |
Friday, June 01, 2018
Panjiva Daily: $23 billion of friendly fire targets, Kerry’s South African strategy and fading self-help |
South Korea’s 19 Month Trade Surge Carries Risk of Another KORUS Review |
Self-Help Goes Out of Fashion as Trade Petitions are Displaced by Trump’s Policy |
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Xi wants cheap fridges, not Trump’s happiness and Hapag’s not-fuel surcharge |
India Sugar Exporters Caned As Prices Fall, Brazilians Win |
Chinese Managers Brush Off Protectionist Risks |
Cheaper Fridges Rather Than Trump’s Happiness The Motivation for Xi’s Duty Cuts |
Evergreen Chops Europe-U.S. Service, Can Focus on More Profitable Lanes |
Maruti-Suzuki Looks to Toyota to Rev Up Indian Export Sales |
Toyota Zooms, Suzuki Slows as Japan’s Automakers See Duties Down The Road |
Kerry Follows DP-DHL In Regional Forwarder Consolidation, Faces Auto Review Risk |
The $23 Billion of Exports That Will Pay The Price For Trump’s Metals Move |
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump rattles the saber, Electrolux suffers buyers’ remorse and steel fireworks are ready |
BMW May Be Forced To Follow Toyota’s Example to Keep Chinese Battery Plant Charged |
Ozzie Miners May Pay Price for China’s Trade Deal With America |
Brazilian Truckers’ Strike Disrupts Meat and Metals Supply Chains |
Steel Fireworks Readied as Europe and America Reach June 1 Deadline |
Panasonic May Simplify Tesla’s Supply Chain As Cobalt Demand Grows, Pricing Slows |
Gush of Oil, Consumer Slowdown Can’t Prevent 19th Rise in U.S. Goods Deficit |
Hapag-Lloyd’s Rate Rise Isn’t a “Fuel Surcharge” So Shouldn’t Derail Market Share Grab |
Fragile 25 Month Sea- and Airfreight Growth Streak Faces Reality of Tariffs |
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Toyota vs. Trump, CMA-CGM vs. bunker fuel and Hyundai MM vs. the Atlantic |
Transatlantic Trade Troubles Takes Toll on German Export Optimism |
Toyota Has Most to Lose If Trump’s Auto Probe Disrupts Engine Supplies |
Mexican Metal Export Surge Caps a Year of Trade Growth |
Trump’s Pre-Ross Visit Saber Rattling Could Put Brakes on Chinese Muffler Exports |
Maersk to CMA-CGM Switch Made No Difference as Electrolux Rails Against Rate Rises |
Monday, May 28, 2018
CMA-CGM’s Halved Profitability Needs Bunker Surcharge And More Besides |
Sunday, May 27, 2018
Hyundai MM’s Unsurprising Withdrawal From The Atlantic |
Friday, May 25, 2018
Panjiva Daily: UPS rides the rails, ZIM illustrates Maersk’s problem and auto-parts hit a record |
Gothenburg Pays The Price For Labor Unrest as Grimaldi Leaves |
Foxconn May Find Defense Dollars More Compelling Than TV Tariff Risks |
Mexico’s Avocado-and-Banana Gambit in China Has NAFTA Policy Benefit |
Maersk Follows MSC as ZIM Demonstrates The Bunker Fuel Problem |
Transshipment Not Really The Point As India Dials Up Fewer Phones |
26 Months Of Global Trade Growth Delivered, At Least One More Possible |
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s 3 auto options, Maersk’s new service and Xi-Merkel talks |
Merkel-Xi Talks Likely More About Tackling Trump Than Getting Together |
Sinopec Faces Tough Supply Chain Choices From China’s Oil Promise to America |
Tanks Form The Next Front In America’s Assault On Chinese Steel Exports |
President Trump’s Three Options For Autos – Security, Safeguarding or Credit |
Containerized Export Surge May Bring First U.S. Deficit Drop Since September 2016 |
Kim-Trump Summit May Be Dead, But DPRK-China Trade Lives |
Record Auto-Parts Imports Will Attract National Security Review’s Attention |
Pork and Pills Key To UPS’s New Germany-Hong Kong Route Growth |
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Maersk’s Med-Montreal Set To Fulfill A Promise As Yet Unrealized |
Panjiva Daily: Panalpina and DP-DHL develop their networks while Russia and Turkey won’t chicken out |
Deutsche Post DHL’s Colombian Deal Shows Smaller is Better and Necessary |
Caterpillar Digs Deeply Into Global Supply Chain To Meet American Growth Needs |
Russia and Turkey Refuse To Chicken Out of Tariff Battle With America |
Honda and Amperex Face Supply Chain as Well as Technology and Design Challenges |
Wine’s China Opportunity Could Offset Transatlantic Policy Rift Risk |
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Panjiva Daily: MSC’s last resort, China’s auto tariff cut and Savannah’s 2M target |
Ikea Plays It Cool As Surging Furniture Industry Frets About Trump’s Tariffs |
China Car Cost Cut Helps European As Well As American Relations |
Three Reasons Why Maduro Is Safe From Trump’s Big Oil Stick |
ABB Keeps Stride With China’s March of the Robots |
Suez Set To Face Pain From The Train At Home and Abroad |
Trump’s 10% Metals Offer Likely To Be Dashed Against Malmstrom’s Rock-Solid Stance |
Panalpina’s Mexican Airfreight Move Comes as Querétaro Traffic Takes Off |
Monday, May 21, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Peace breaks out, prospects for TTIP 2.0 and Puget Sound punched |
LNG Export Inflation Won’t Stop It Being A Political Football |
Shipyards’ April Slowdown a Hiccup Not A Slump |
Puget Sound Punched by Canada as Trade War Risk Averted |
2M Should Be Savannah’s Target To Keep Growth Advantage Over Charleston |
Charleston May Struggle to Dance Around Slowing Traffic Growth After Bumper April |
MSC Hits the Emergency Fuel Button, Just in Time For Peak Season |
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Car Parts and Metals Duties Can’t Hold Japan Back, Tariff War Might |
Peace Won (For Now) With Repeat of Beans-and-Gas Deal Between China and U.S. |
TTIP 2.0 or Just Another Beans-and-Autos Deal? |
Friday, May 18, 2018
Panjiva Daily: 3PLs beat liners, COSCO’s post-deal options and Venezuela’s parlous food trade |
White Goods, Not Pink Pigs, Drive American Review of Thai GSP Status |
NAFTA Watch: Three Options for Next Steps |
China’s Sorghum Case Cancellation Good For Chinese and American Agriculture |
American Manufacturers Get Drawn Over the Coals As Steel Tube Case Closes |
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Bunker busts Maersk, chips ahoy for China and fat chance for skinny NAFTA |
Bunker Busts Maersk’s Margins As 1Q Profit Leaves Steep Hill To Climb in 2018 |
Best Buy Better Buy TVs Quicker as U.S. Duty Leniency Unlikely |
NAFTA Watch: Fat Chance For a Skinny Deal, Termination More Likely |
EU Sets Fourth “Final” Deadline For Trump’s Metals Duties, Raises Stakes |
Too Much of a Good Thing? COSCO Shipping’s Post Merger Market Share Options |
Venezuela Heads Hungry To The Polls |
3PLs Beat Box Handlers as Container-Lines Struggle With Fuel Costs |
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Ceva-spirational growth, MSC helps Houston and tariffs loom over Singer |
“Make In India” Slows, But Doesn’t End, a 20 Month Trade Growth Streak |
Tianqi’s Lithium Urgency Spurred By Korean Lead, Soaring Prices |
Boeing’s Pain May Be BMW’s Pain as WTO Aerospace Disputes Trundle On |
Zhejiang Pharma’s Loss May Be Amneal’s Gain As Trump’s Pharma Tariffs Approach |
Singapore Slips on Oil, Threat from Indonesia-U.S. Direct Services Looms |
Hong Kong Ports Already Struggling Ahead of China-America Tariff Battle |
China Wants To Buy What America Can’t Yet Sell to Settle Tariff Spat |
The 45 Billion Yen Price of Abe-Trump Talks’ Failure |
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Panjiva Daily: President Trump’s drive by, beans means deals and Canada’s metals MAD |
Korea Saves Oakland As Cali Port Activity Indicates Deficit Will Fall |
Rocky Road Ahead for Rockport Suppliers as Financial Needs Weigh |
Hyundai MM Addresses Profitability Issues With Busan Port Stake |
NAFTA Watch: Canada’s Metals MAD May Allow A Final, Final, Final Deadline |
COSCO Shipping Deploys Self-Help in Hong Kong as China Volumes Resurgent |
Singer Sewing and Brother Face Supply Chain Risks as Tariffs Loom |
HP Inc’s Reliance on Tech Front, Compal Raises China Duty Worries |
Houston, Has No Problems as Mexico, MSC Support Growth Hike In April |
Ceva Currently Panalpin-alike, Wants to Claw Its Way to K+N Profitability |
Monday, May 14, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Hapag-Lloyd’s lessons, ONE’s mishap and NAFTA’s dairy decision |
Japanese Beef Tariffs May Hurt Relations After Abe and Trump Meet |
Fewer Flanges at The Last Minute as Chinese Pipe Collars Choked Off |
Manzanillo Tunnel Could Revitalize Rail Just In Time for NAFTA Disruptions |
Mitsui-OSK’s New Port Brings Vietnamese Opportunities to ONE |
Beans Means Deals as ZTE May Be Traded for China-U.S. Detente |
Daimler, BMW Have Options Should Trump Drive Through 20% Duties |
Hapag-Lloyd’s Competitive, Merger Disciplines a Lesson for ONE |
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Virginia’s Modest Decline Includes ONE’s Maiden Month Mishap |
Trump’s Drug Policy Aims To Export U.S. Payer Model Even as Trade Prices Fall |
NAFTA Watch: Dairy Decision Needed to Get Moo-ving By May 17 |
Friday, May 11, 2018
Panjiva Daily: ONE’s poor start, two strategies for one Trump threat and 3X+ hopes for RCEP |
War on Drug Prices May Focus on Oncology After Imports Hit Record |
Yang Ming’s Alliance Better Than Nothing, May Not Be Enough |
77 Month High in Export Price Inflation Carries Seeds of Deficit Cut (Finally) |
Threat of a Trade Case Enough to Slash Russian Uranium Exports to America |
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Panjiva Daily: UPS and Expeditors get conservative, Harleys accelerate and Conoco takes on PdVSA |
PdVSA’s Caribbean Withdrawal May Help ConocoPhillips in the U.S. |
Harleys Accelerate as Ross and Malmström Struggle to Reach a Steel Deal |
Smucker, Starbucks Have Tough Choices as Brazilian Coffee Sours |
Trump’s Tariff Demands Bring One Threat, Two Options for Transpac Supply Chains |
Rapid Growth Can Be Seen As ITC Investigates Steel Wheels |
ONE’s Poor Start Worked to Maersk, CMA-CGM’s Advantage |
3X+ May Be Way Ahead for RCEP, India Remains the Challenge |
Wednesday, May 09, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Iran sanctions’ impact, Expeditors shows discipline and ports face slowing growth |
Philippine Export Slowdown a Sign of Future U.S.-China Trade War Risks |
India Set To Draw Blinds on Chinese Solar Exports, Which Are Already in Decline |
American Pig Outbound Shipments Down as China Tightens Inspection Rules |
Maersk and MSC Lose Out In Brazil, But That May Not Be A Bad Thing |
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Faces German Auto Threat After Losing Hyundai Volumes |
UPS, Expeditors More Conservative as Orient Express Grabs Dwindling China Volumes |
War on Drug Prices May Focus on Oncology After Imports Hit Record |
Tuesday, May 08, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Fuel for the U.S-China fire and the limited effect of President Trump’s metals tariffs |
Latest China Data Pours Fuel on U.S. Trade Dispute Fire |
Brazilian Auto Exports Surge to New Record on Rising Demand for Renault and GM |
Ports Face Slowing Growth, COSCO Saves Long Beach as New York Slides |
Panama Has a Problem Adding Slots Won’t Change |
Vestas, Siemens-Gamesa May Be Helped by Trump Tariffs on Wind Power Gear |
China Trade With North Korea Starts to Recover Ahead of Kim-Trump Meeting |
Iran Sanctions May Hurt Soybean Farmers, Italians and Container-Lines |
Deutsche and Expeditors Show Discipline Enhances Earnings |
Monday, May 07, 2018
Panjiva Daily: The magnificent 7’s failings, risky times for container lines and the return of 2016 |
American Gun Buying Surge Ahead as Background Checks, Imports Rise |
Steel Staple Case Fails to Contain Chinese Exporters |
General Motors Leads Surging Mexican Auto Exports, VW Less Exposed to NAFTA |
Longi and Trina Hang On in America After Solar Trade Mission Accomplished |
Worries and Exemptions Limit the Effectiveness of President Trump’s Metals Tariffs |
First Sign of China Crisis Impact on U.S. Imports Seen in April |
COSCO, Mitsui-OSK Show Container-Lines’ 5 Quarter Margin Streak May Struggle in 2018 |
Sunday, May 06, 2018
Turkish Weapons Ban Matters Little for U.S. Arms Industry Helped by Trump’s Approvals |
Global Trade Makes Like It’s 2016 After Air and Sea Volumes Slowed in March |
Why Trump’s Magnificent Seven Struggled in 4 Charts |
Friday, May 04, 2018
Panjiva Daily: XPO smashes sales and crushes profitability, Oakland’s cool and America’s 13th time unlucky |
Oakland Expands Cool Handling as Reefer Traffic Heats Up |
Wookie Struggling to Win After Toys’R’Us Failure |
Avocados Twice The Size of Tequila as Cinco de Mayo Boom Continues |
China Looks To Crush American Scrap Aluminum Exports |
Old Economy Logistics Jobs Stagnate as U.S. Employment Growth Disappoints |
Thursday, May 03, 2018
Panjiva Daily: CH Robinson pays the price, Skou’s subsidy critique and tying down ROOs |
NAFTA Watch: ROOs Keep Jumping Around, Not Yet Tied Down |
Rusal Wins Sanctions Reprieve As U.S. Imports Spike |
Protectionist Pessimism, not Panic, Settling Over Global Trade Expectations |
British Ports Face Brexit Uncertainty As Volumes Slide |
CH Robinson Pays Price For Competing as Forwarder Margins Hit Four Year Low |
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in April 2018 |
Argentine Rush Rewarded With Higher Metals Quotas Than Korea |
XPO Smashes Sales Estimates, Suffers Forwarders’ Profitability Problems |
Nintendo’s Fortunes May Switch As Patent Suit, Falling Imports Loom |
NAFTA Watch: Canada’s Auto Woes Cut Chance for Compromise |
13th Straight Rise In America’s Deficit Overshadows China, NAFTA Negotiations |
Wednesday, May 02, 2018
Skou’s Subsidy Critique Supported By Sliding Rates Even as Bunker Fuel Soars |
Tuesday, May 01, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump kicks the can, DSV’s good disappointment and Yang Ming’s Canadian voyage |
DSV’s Discipline Disappointing For Revenues, Great For Profits |
China Dangles Drug Carrot While Keeping Duty Stick in Reserve for America |
South Korean Trade Limps to 18th Increase as KORUS, Metals Duties Loom |
Trade Petitions Pick Up Though Most Filers Are Awaiting Metals and China Decisions |
Monday, April 30, 2018
Panjiva Daily: NAFTA’s lustrum limits, COSCO’s Long Beach price and metals exemptions expectations |
Global Trade Growth Hits Highest Since 2011 on Annualized Basis, Outlook Uncertain |
Beef-for-Steel Swap Could Bring EU and America Back From Brink of Tariff Spat |
Mexico Delivers Deals as the EU Triangulates Against Trump |
NAFTA Watch: Lustrum Limits The Least of Its Problems After 18th U.S. Deficit Rise |
Fanuc Flags Regulatory Risk as Rise of Its Machines Falters |
Yang Ming Rings Up Growth For Rupert as SeaTac’s Suffering Continues |
Sugar Relations Turn Sour As Brazil Calls for India Subsidy Cut While Price Dissolves |
Trump Kicks Metals Duty Can Down The Road, EU Conflict Looms |
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Puma’s Trump Tariff Reaction May Kick Shoe Production to Vietnam |
Monday, April 23, 2018
COSCO Shipping Will Have To Leave Long Beach Without Leaving It |
Friday, April 20, 2018
Self-Initiated Case Initiates Problem For Aluminum Buyers |
Sanyo and Nippon Steel Weren’t Expecting A Metals Deal from Abe and Trump |
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Panjiva Daily: China helps Tesla, Charleston loses to Savannah and JB Hunt shows forwarder risks |
Honda Changes Gear, Rather Than Revving Up, in Brazil As Growth Remains Slow |
Kitchen Costs Set to Rise As America Investigates Chinese Quartz Exports |
Hong Kong’s Slowdown Faces Gentle American Tariff Headwinds |
Japan’s Trade Slows, May Decelerate Further As Trump Nixes CPTPP, Again |
Shipbuilders’ Strong 1Q For Orders Not Yet Reflected in Exports, Consolidation Unlikely |
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Three trade topics for Mar-a-Lago, defense review for Trump and Cali’s party may be over |
Volvo and BMW May Lose If Trump Strikes Steel Deal With The EU |
Norsk Hydro’s Aluminum Woes Face Second-Tier Japanese Supplier Risk in Brazil |
Hapag-Lloyd Seeks Transpacific Rate Rise as Global Routes Hit October 2016 Low |
COSCO Shipping’s Port Handling Growth Slows Ahead of Protectionist Risks |
China Helps Tesla, Hurts American Farmers With Classic Carrot and Stick |
JB Hunt Does Better Than Expected, But Forwarders’ Trend Still Downward |
Charleston’s EU Loss to Savannah May Turn To Advantage As Trump’s Tariffs Beckon |
Monday, April 16, 2018
American Farmers’ Chance to Pig Out to Argentina After Metals Deal |
Panjiva Daily: Serving America’s CPTPP interests, Toyota’s engine challenge and ONE’s big problem |
NAFTA Watch: Toyota and Daimler Face Tough Engine Choices Under Tiered ROOs |
India May Need to Get Hip To Tariff Reductions To Retain GSP Status With America |
American Interest in CPTPP May Be Better Served by Vietnam FTA |
California’s Ports Have Little Outbound Traffic Support To Match China Duty Threats |
Defense Review Will Give Trump Tough Choices on China Rare Earth, LED Supplies |
Three Trade Topics for Abe and Trump to Discuss – CPTPP, Steel and Cars |
Sunday, April 15, 2018
ONE Big Problem to Sort Out After Apparent Upheaval Started in March |
Friday, April 13, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Container-lines’ 1Q winners, 3 things to watch in Peru and China’s trade slowdown |
Weapons Export Approvals Surge Under Trump, But Shipments Yet to Improve |
Mattress Suppliers Won’t Sleep Easy As Imports Fall, Tariffs Loom |
Maersk Wins in Virginia as Port’s March Surge Closes Quiet Quarter |
China Trade Slowdown Doesn’t Change Trade Surplus Politics |
Disney Will Want To Know The Odds of Solo Film Merchandise Success |
Sempra Invests In Mexico’s Fuel Export Future as Its Present Struggles |
Hawaiian Volume Growth For CMA-CGM Will Need More Than Just Frequency |
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Panjiva Daily: UPS and DSV take it easy, no sign of China-U.S. de-escalation and judging metals duties |
Mechanical Tube Case Doesn’t Close Pipeline, Raises Costs For Buyers |
Battle for SQM’s Lithium Heats Up as Chilean Exports Expand |
Rare Earths About To Become Less Rare, Breaking China’s Export Stranglehold |
No Sign of De-Escalation From China as Trump Prepares Farm Support |
Oakland’s Weak March Caps Better Quarter, Evergreen Loses to CMA-CGM |
17th Month of Import Price Inflation Could Continue With Metals, China Tariffs |
Three Trade Issues to Watch at Summit of Americas – CAFTA-DR, CPTPP and Venezuela |
COSCO and Orient Lead Liners’ 1Q Growth Despite Deal Doubts |
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Finding Xi’s next tariff cuts, LA’s slow March and Hyundai MM’s fleet doubling |
Marfrig Expands in America Just as Brazilian Beef Stampede Begins |
NAFTA Watch: Mexican Engines May Lose Power In Rules of Origin Shift |
Canada’s Lumberjacks Are Not OK As WTO Launches Softwood Dispute |
Mobile Looks to Attract Automobiles as RoRo Port Interest Rises |
Xi’s Next Carrot-and-Stick Tariff Cuts Could Come in Motorbikes and Cotton |
Trump Metals Tariffs Nibbled Imports In March, Could Bite in May |
UPS and DSV Take It Easy in 1Q As Forwarder Competition Remains Fierce |
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Xi’s automotive carrot and stick, U.S. imports’ first slip in a year and Russian sanctions’ impact |
Sixty Days of Uncertainty for the Television Market as Trump’s Tariffs Loom |
NAFTA Watch: 80% Chance of Passage May Drive Further Surge in Mexican Auto Exports |
Xi’s Bo’ao Speech Shows Liberalization Carrot Follows Tariff Stick |
Hyundai MM Set To Double The Fleet, But At Whose Expense? |
LA Has Slow March With Evergreen and Maersk As New York Leads 1Q Performance |
Rusal Sanctions Remove Need for Most Aluminum Duties Against Russia |
Monday, April 09, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Shipping’s exposure to Trump’s tariffs, 83 days left for NAFTA and new DPRK sanctions |
NAFTA Watch: 83 Days Left To Deal, Cars In The Driving Seat |
Philadelphia Double-Up Proceeds, Needs Hapag-Lloyd and CMA-CGM to Succeed |
Xi’s Tough Love for Kim Cuts Trade By Two Thirds in February |
Container-Lines 5.6x More Exposed to Trump Than Xi in Pacific Trade Spat |
Yildirim’s Investment May Bring CMA-CGM, Make Gulfport Less Banana Exposed |
Neopanamax Prioritization, Less Maintenance Positions Panama For Recovery |
Ceva’s IPO Hopes Lean on Profitable Competition Strategy |
Tariff and Confidence Driven Slip in Trade Coming as Imports Have First Fall In a Year |
Friday, April 06, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Identifying Trump’s next $100 billion, a soybean shortage and an Olympic deficit |
Biodiesel Import Demand Grows After Argentina and Indonesia Chased Away |
Severstal Yet To Sever Steel Supplies As It Loses Court Appeal |
Trump’s Next $100 billion – Phones, T-Shirts or Polymers? |
Cauliflower Exports Build Up a Head of Steam |
CMA-CGM Aims for Trans-Atlantic Competitive Space as Eagle Is Launched |
Logistics Jobs Growth Beats Economy, Lags Air and Sea Freight Volumes |
Thursday, April 05, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Four facts about China’s tariff retaliation and Mexico’s steel whack-a-mole |
23 Month Run of Global Cargo Growth Faces Protectionist Hurdle |
Starbucks Goes Guatemalan as Global Coffee Prices Slide |
China Customs’ Coal Cut May Be Back as Fujian Restricts Shipments |
No Surprise in No WTO Deal For U.S.-China Washing Machine Case |
Blame China, Europe and the Olympics for America’s Blowout Deficit |
Shortage of Soybeans May Draw Teeth From China Tariff Threat |
Car Sales Recovery May Be Short Lived as South Korean, German Imports Slump |
Canada’s Trade Growth Masks Auto Problem That NAFTA Might Fix |
Wednesday, April 04, 2018
Panjiva Daily: 5 facts about Trump’s China tariffs and a slow moving FMC review |
Evergreen and COSCO Buck New York’s Declining Asia Traffic |
JinkoSolar Jinks To Florida as Section 201 Duties Bite |
Five Facts About Trump’s New China Tariffs – Watch Out for Blowback |
Mexico Will Have to Whack-a-Steel-Mole as U.S. Duties Begin to Bite |
Four Facts About China’s $53 Billion Trump Tariff Retaliation |
Tuesday, April 03, 2018
Panjiva Daily: China’s first retaliatory step, rate discipline doubts and unhappy Norfolk truckers |
Busier March for Dumping Case Filings May Mark Start of “Post 301” Era |
Discipline Doubts As 1Q Container Rates Fall vs. Last Year |
Americans More Worried About Trade War Than Chinese As Trade Sentiment Diverges |
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in March 2018 |
Self-Initiated Aluminum Case Could Lead to Self-Inflicted Injury as Decision Delayed |
Slow Moving FMC Review Could Change Port Fees, Philly and NOLA Worth Watching |
Monday, April 02, 2018
Lowest South Korean Surplus Since 2012 Unlikely to Change Trump’s Mind on KORUS |
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Hapag-Lloyd’s high hopes, Kerry’s sliding profitability and KORUS pharma vs. farmers |
Sun May Be Setting On Corona’s Growth as Mexican Export Expansion Slows |
Adore Me Imports Experience Rapid Growth in Brief History |
Toyota and Mitsubishi Lead Bad News Growth Surge For Japanese Auto Exports |
Norfolk’s Trucking Folk Unhappy as Import Growth Drives Congestion |
New Glycine Case Needed As Old Orders on China Fail The Acid Test |
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Russia challenges Trump’s tariff legitimacy while China heads to the WTO |
American Goods Deficit Hits 10 Year High as Tariff Impacts Awaited |
Volkswagen Goes Clean as Shipments Surge, Trump Looms |
Kerry Logistics’ Profits Hit a Nadir As Apex Volumes Peak |
Pharma, Not Farmers, Helped Complete The KORUS Deal |
H&M Faces Sudden Slowdown in Fast Fashion as Inventories Increase |
Sinokor and Heung-A Take First Step On a Much-Needed Path to Korean Consolidation |
Hapag-Lloyd Has High Hopes, Others May Be The Problem |
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Art of the KORUS deal, EU targets Trump but may hit Xi, and ZIM faces harsh Savannah |
Europe Past Peak Optimism As Tariff Worries Weigh on Business Sentiment |
Mexico Crushed Under China’s Wheels as Accuride Launches Trade Complaint |
China Heads To The WTO As Metals Exports to America Start To Wane |
India Trims LCD Panel Duties as TV Imports Set On a Growth Path |
Kansas City Southern Feels GILTI Pain, Awaits NAFTA Gain |
Russia Bearish on Trump’s Metal Tariff Legitimacy |
Mexico’s 10 Month Trade Boom Awaits NAFTA Decisions |
Silt Today, Tariffs Tomorrow Form Challenges For Port Houston |
Monday, March 26, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Thin end of the retaliatory wedge, server and phone risks and Mexican steel fall-out |
The Art of The KORUS Deal – Steel Exemption for Autos Access |
ZIM and CMA-CGM Face Harsh Savannah Outlook If China Trade Falls |
EU Metals Review Aimed At Trump, May Hit Xi |
Indian Drug Trade Cure Is Also Its Illness As China Talks Continue |
Montreal’s Short Term Congestion Pain Will Need Long Term Automation Investment |
Phenol Case Marks a Move Upstream, Parallel To Trade Negotiations |
Hyundai Truck Plans Face NAFTA, Not KORUS Risks |
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Mexico Faces Fall-Out From U.S. Duties on Chinese Steel Exports |
Silicon Metal Case Brings No Duties, But Hurts Aluminum and Chip Makers |
Servers and Phone Switches Are China’s Biggest Risks From Trump’s New Tariffs |
Boeing May Find Comac Is A Much Bigger Problem Than Bombardier Ever Was |
$644 million Is The Thin End of China’s Retaliatory Wedge – Jets, Chips and Beans Next |
Friday, March 23, 2018
SeaTac’s Reversal Respite May Prove Fleeting as China Tariffs Loom |
23rd Month Of Chinese Container Growth Faces Seasonal, Tariff Driven Slowdown |
24 Months of Global Trade Growth May Finally Crest On Holiday Slowdown, Tariff War |
President Trump Targets China – Utilities, Airlines and Callers May Pay The Price |
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s tariff targets, Charleston’s not dancing and Heung-A hangs on |
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Heung-A Hangs On, Restructuring and Partnership Options To Be Considered |
ZIM’s Discipline Doesn’t Translate To Profits as Port Costs Rise |
Charleston Not Dancing Any More as CMA-CGM and Maersk Traffic Slows |
Panjiva Daily: Steel exemptions widen, Deere digs at tariffs, and Trump’s China tariff risk for apparel |
Best Buy Says Buy-Buy to Huawei, Which Might Not Care |
Uncompetitive Mexican Rail Activity Slackens as NAFTA Opportunity Beckons |
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s Taiwan gambit, COSCO and SM Line’s deal and Fedex’s disappointment |
Booming Saudi-U.S. Arms Trade As Exports More-Than-Double |
Steel Consumers Beaten By Wire Rod Investigation While Flanges Still Fly |
More Out Than In As Lighthizer Hints At EU, South Korea Metals Tariff Exemption |
Chinese Tilapia May Pay The Price For Ross’s Hatred For The “Fish Deficit” |
Deere’s Dig At Tariffs Misses Risk That Tractor Orders Get Pulled |
Trump’s Tariffs Only One Fifth Of The Problem For China’s Apparel Makers |
LG Chem Charges Up China Exports as VW Deal Beckons |
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Quiet KORUS, Venezuela’s blockchain blocked and Xi-Merkel steel detente |
Blockchain Block Less Effective Than Oil Embargo If Trump Wants to Pressure Maduro |
Mario’s Next Boss Level Features President Trump’s Tariffs |
Fedex Profitability Decline Bodes Ill For Forwarders’ First Quarter |
Retaliation-Proof Almonds Increasingly Milking The Indian Market |
Japanese Shipyards Lag South Korea’s, Needs ONE To Start Spending |
COSCO / SM Line Asia Deal Could Lead to Trans-Pacific Specialization |
Trump’s Taiwan Gambit Has Auto and Oil Opportunity, China Relations Risk |
Monday, March 19, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Europe’s wider battlefront with Trump, APL pays off and Honam’s lessons |
EU Widens Front for Tariff Battle With Trump Over Steel and Aluminum |
Hong Kong Slowdown May Herald Way Ahead for China’s Ports |
Good News for Shipyards’ Orders May Turn To Disappointment for Shippers |
APL Pays Off for CMA-CGM in Trans-Pac Volumes, Better Profitability |
India Rattles A WTO Steel Saber That It Can’t Afford To Swing |
DP World’s Global Expansion Heads To Peru’s Cosmos, Where Growth Is Lacking |
Knight-Swift Deal Adds to Slow Consolidation of Trucking Ahead of NAFTA Opportunity |
Xi-Merkel Steel Detente Could Cut Chance for EU Exemption from Trump’s Tariffs |
Quiet KORUS Cuts Risks for Hyundai MM as ONE, CMA-CGM and Kim Loom |
Japan’s Trade Boom Starts to Fade |
Brazil’s Food Exports in Another Flap as Chicken Exports Drop |
Friday, March 16, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Solar tariffs (almost) work, Trump’s first WTO challenge and another deficit rise ahead |
Dongkuk Steels Itself For Tough Negotiations With Customers |
Aluminum Foil Case Partly Successful, Consumer Costs Rise 30% |
Stolt-Nielsen Addresses “Soft” With Focus |
Maersk Tragedy Drives Stowage Shift, CMA-CGM and MSC Lead U.S. Inbound Routes |
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Jameson’s Is The New Guinness This St. Patrick’s Day |
Panjiva Daily: Cali’s container boom, Kim and the KORUS conflict and Trudeau’s tariff troubles |
Cobalt Deal May Help U.S. Offset China’s DRC-Reliant Import Lead |
Taskrabbit Better Hop To It As IKEA Import Activity Accelerates, Tariffs Loom |
DSV Ready for New NAFTA ROOs With New Facilities, Surging Mexican Growth |
Canada’s Groundwood Paper Grinds Europeans Out of U.S. Market |
Trudeau’s Metal Tariffs Aimed At Avoiding 232-Gateway Status, Exports Already Rising |
Strongest Import Signal In Five Years Indicates Yet Another Deficit Hike |
Trump’s First WTO Challenge Could Raise Costs for JC Penney and PVH |
Solar and Washer Tariffs Perform (Almost, But Not Entirely) As Expected |
Big Boats Help Singapore Container Surge Hit 15 Year Record |
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Three Risks for Trump’s $60 billion tariff gambit and Orient Overseas’ Last Hurrah |
Volkswagen’s EV Push Will Need NAFTA-Inspired Body Panel Supply Chain Shift |
Adidas Boom Set To Continue, China Tariffs Shouldn’t Be A Worry |
Three Big Risks from President Trump’s Long Awaited China Tech Tariffs |
Cali’s Continued Container Boom Faces Peril of President Trump’s China Tariffs |
Kim, Steel and Solar in the KORUS Pot, But Cars Will Driven The Outcome |
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Panjiva Daily: CH Robinson lets rip, South Korea’s CPTPP leverage and the $100 billion question |
Tesla Magnet Choice Increases China Reliance, Brings Risks |
Soybean Saber May Be An Ineffective Weapon in China’s Battle With American Tariffs |
Qualcomm’s New White Knight Could Apply Tariffs Too |
Special Relationship Won’t Mean A Special Deal For British Steel |
Lithium Power Powers Ahead as New Government Arrives, Exports Surge |
Hapag-LLoyd and CMA-CGM May Have Puerto Rican Opportunity From Jones Act Pass |
Orient Overseas’ Last Hurrah Is Loud as Hapag-Lloyd Hangs Back |
Suez Bulker Rate Cut Shows Canals Face Trump Tariff Risks Too |
Monday, March 12, 2018
South Korea’s T-50 Jet Sale to USAF Could Founder on Trade Policy Demands |
Panjiva Daily: Turnbull’s deal with Trump, last gasp for port growth and CPTPP’s complex passage |
Norfolk’s Broad Export Problems Not Helped by ONE Big Slowdown |
Turnbull Shows Heads-of-State and Weapons The Best Route to 232 Tariff Exemptions |
Complex Problems of CPTPP Passage Pale Next To NAFTA’s Auto Mess For Mexico |
CPTPP Could Give South Korea Leverage With China and America |
The $100 billion (Partial) Answer – Chips, Cars, Comms and Chemicals |
Lesson Learned for UPS as CH Robinson Lets Rip and DSV Settles Down |
Friday, March 09, 2018
Musk’s China Call Comes As Exports Flag, Section 301 Tariffs Loom |
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s security choices, America’s import super-cycle and Deutsche Post’s discipline |
Forwarders’ Hopes Supported by 9% Global Logistics Growth in January |
Panama Honeymoon Over As Transits Drop, Diversions Plateau |
Logistics Employment Surge Helps Dockers, Warehouse Growth Slowing |
Ports Win On China Holiday, May Lose To Trump’s Tariffs |
Thursday, March 08, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Panalpina’s way ahead, the steel tariff shuffle and China’s trade boom |
GM’s Silverado Leads Mexican Auto Export Surge, Audi Less Exposed to NAFTA Risks |
Bags Of Work To Do As Vietnamese Sack Shipments Surge |
Panalpina Beats Expectations, But Still Has Far To Travel |
No Signs Of American Import Super-Cycle Slowing, Yet |
Thai Tariff Plan Show Knock-On Risks from U.S. Steel Intervention |
Builders’ Lumber Cost Woes a Lesson For Steel and Aluminum Duties |
President Trump’s Bold Metals Tariffs Will Show Who His Security Friends Are |
Deutsche Post Shows Discipline That Forwarders Need To Learn For 2018 |
Wednesday, March 07, 2018
Panjiva Daily: CMA-CGM speed vs. COSCO scale, EU’s tariff levers and OECD overshadowed |
OECD Steel Forum Overshadowed By Others’ Actions |
China-America Trade War Could Leave Alaskan Fish In The Cold |
Cost Build-up The Price of Slumping Rebar Imports, Demonstrating s232 Risks |
CMA-CGM Hopes Speed Beats COSCO’s Scale On Shanghai-LA Routes |
111 Month High For U.S. Deficit, Olympics To Push It Further as Trump Ponders China |
China Trade Boom Leaves Record U.S. Surplus That Cars and Oil Could Cut |
Foot Locker Runs Down Imports, Tariffs May Stamp On Shoes |
If NAFTA’s Free Of Metals Tariffs, Who Will Pay? |
Tuesday, March 06, 2018
Panjiva Daily: NAFTA clock ticks, the $29 billion energy swing and China’s too-big-to-succeed deal |
Rail Fix The Price of Success As Wilmington Recovers From Hanjin Service Loss |
Whiskey and Maize Are Europe’s Biggest Levers To Tackle Trump’s Tariffs |
Lego Overbuilds Inventories, 2018 Recovery Starts Slowly |
Monday, March 05, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Europe vs. Trump, a $1500 auto tax and bouncing box rates |
America a New Target After Singapore Sucks in Chinese Gasoline |
Rupert’s Rapid Rise Continues Canada’s Container Climb |
Box Rate Bounce Ends, But Beats Bulker and Tanker Troubles |
Xcoal, Blackhawk Could Pay Brazilian Coal Cost For Trump’s Metal Tariffs |
Apple’s Airpod Follow-Up Faces Tough Market, Tariff Risks |
EAEU Wheels Out Its First Case Against China |
Imports Flood The Pipeline As Antidumping Meets National Security Duties |
NAFTA Watch: Timing Is All As Round 8 May Be The Last, For Now |
NAFTA Watch: Mutual Self-Interest in Energy Chapter Locking in $29 Billion Gas Swing |
$1.1 Trillion Deal In China Government Sights, May Be Too Big To Succeed |
Sunday, March 04, 2018
BMW, Tata Face $1500 Cost for Each 5% “Tax on Their Cars” By Trump |
Friday, March 02, 2018
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s $9 billion tariff action, the ITC’s quiet month, and the KORUS crash ahead |
Silicon Metal Dumped, Buyers Face 13% Cost Hike |
General Motors Saves South Korea as Other Options Limited |
Europe To Tackle Trump Tariffs With Safeguarding – Bolts, Pipes and Plates May Pay |
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in February 2018 |
Thursday, March 01, 2018
Panjiva Daily: K+N joins its peers, Hapag-Lloyd best-in-class and Malmstrom needs the WTO |
COSCO Shipping Increases Bet On China’s Surging Oil Product Exports |
Quiet Month for ITC Petition Precedes Metal and China Tariff Storms |
Imported Truck Record Arrives As Supply Chains Face Protectionist Risks |
American Coffee Purchases Perk Up As Tea Drained |
Tax Reform Enthusiasm May Hit Tariff Reality as U.S. Import Outlook Hits 11 Year High |
Exemption Details Will Bedevil Trump’s $9 billion Metals Action |
KORUS Crash Likely Undiverted By Five Year Low in Korea-U.S. Trade Surplus |
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
China Beats Thai BPA Back, Mitsui and Mitsubishi Have The Bottle To Keep Buying |
Fishy Timing, Big Opportunity in Vietnam’s Catfish WTO Case |
Malmstrom’s Metal “Countermeasures” May Need WTO Support To Be Effective |
Toyota and Mazda Lead Japanese Export Drive, Shippers’ Sea Battle Continues |
Rough Start For Trade Outlook As The Year Of The Dog Begins |
Hapag-Lloyd Hits a High, Has Room To Be More Aggressive |
K+N Joins Peers With Great Revenues, Disappointing Profitability |
Panjiva Daily: CMA-CGM’s need for speed, Ryder’s Mexican rides and China’s been foiled |
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
China Keeps Chicken Out as Agricultural Trade Tensions Simmer |
2008 High For U.S. Deficit Due To Capital Goods and Oil, Could Trigger Trump |
China Foiled, Russia and Brazil Gain While Consumers Lose from Aluminum Case |
Ryder Raises Rides for U.S.-Mexico Auto-Parts As NAFTA Uncertainty Looms |
MMA Fight Between China and Japan Goes To A New Level |
CMA-CGM Relies on Need For Speed in Asia-Americas Service as Volumes Slow |
Huawei’s 5G Ambitions Begin as 4G Lurches Back To Life |
Mexican Business Investment Leads To Largest Deficit On Record |
U.S. Wants Better Log Logging From Peru, Chinese Flooring Demand Matters More |
Panjiva Daily: Charleston’s music stops, the next national security review and Mitsubishi’s copper race |
Monday, February 26, 2018
Qatar Gas Better Than Hoped, Faces Circumstances Beyond Its Control |
Beantown’s Been Better as MSC Traffic Drops, Hapag-Lloyd Arrives |
Trampolines Are For Exercise, Not Fun While Toys Might Become Political |
Ownership-Secured EV Supply Chain Race Accelerates As Mitsubishi Goes for Copper |
Conductors and Filters Could Be The Next Front in National Security Trade Reviews |
Court Progress Could Take Shine Off Trump’s Solar Decision |
Music Stops for Charleston as Volumes Fall Despite Hapag-Lloyd’s Big Ship Deliveries |
Panjiva Daily: Sanctions and surpluses, Mexico’s leverage and China’s pollution problem |
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Arcelor and Thyssen’s Brazilian Mills Should Steel Themselves For Disappointment |
Mexican Metals Leverage Could Foil s232 Review, Spill Over Into NAFTA Talks |
Cracks Appear in Europe’s Export Boom As German and British Sentiment Slips |
Mercosur-Canada Deal Will Have a Big, Agricultural Hill to Climb |
Saturday, February 24, 2018
DPRK Shipping Sanctions Matter Less Than a 3.4x Leap in China’s Trade Surplus |
Friday, February 23, 2018
BAIC Cooks Up A Mexican Factory After Initial Export Success |
Six Year High For Global Trade Growth Set To Continue, For Now |
Chinese Container’s Stellar Start to 2018 May Just Be A Calendar Catch |
Tangshan Pollution Limits Have Outsize Steel Export Impact, s232 Will Matter More |
Panjiva Daily: Agri-vation for NAFTA, SeaTac’s tough 2018 and Matson slips as liners soar |
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Biodiesel Lesson For America’s “Friends” In Solar and Steel Cases |
Hand Truck Deliveries Prove Legitimate in Europe, U.S. Should Consider a Case |
Commerce Doesn’t Have to Stretch To See Merit in Rubber Band Case |
Indian Solvent Case Doesn’t Solve Import Problem, Chinese Supplies Set Record |
NAFTA Watch: Agri-vation, Metal Mayhem to Join Origin-al Problems as Round 7 Looms |
Matson Slips as Container-Lines Soar, Jones Act May Prove a Hinderance |
SeaTac’s Tough 2018 Start May Get Tougher as Shippers Consolidate |
Panjiva Daily: K+N confident on containers, Hanwha’s haymaker and Mexican rail blockades |
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Hanwha Q-Cells Made Hay While The Sun Shined, Dawn Up To WTO |
Apple Looks For Cobalt as Chinese Imports Climb 3.4x |
Quanta Phone Network Exports Surge Ahead of Mobile World Congress |
K+N Takes Confident Stance on Container-Lines, Cuts Exposure to Hapag-Lloyd |
Rail Blockades Hurt Mexican Auto Supply Chains, Could Be Worse Under NAFTA 2.0 |
Hoegh Up, Wallenius Down In U.S. Car Carrier Share as EC Applies Fines |
Panjiva Daily: Maersk’s eastern option, metals retaliation risks and Savannah’s slowdown |
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Strong Jets, Disciplined Ships Lead Expeditors To Beat Its Peers |
ONE Will Be Number One in Savannah, Though Regional Growth Is Slowing |
Ethanol Tariffs in Europe No Block to Surging U.S. Exports |
PNG LNG Quandary for Exxon and Total As Chinese Imports Soar |
American Bolts and Plates Could Pay The Price For Chinese s232 Retaliation |
Maersk Could Look East For Its Next Deal, But Faces Pricey Options |
Panjiva Daily: Trump’s metal opportunity in 5 charts, UPS down in Virginia and Sanyo’s solar surge |
Monday, February 19, 2018
Japan Has China To Thank for Export Boom, U.S. Relations Still a Problem |
ITC Unplugs SA and Ukraine Wire Rod Exports, But 232 Complications Await |
COSCO May Be Called on To Echo Hyundai MM as China’s Shipyards Exports Slump |
“Fast Toys” May Be Difficult To Achieve With Seaborne Shipping Reliance |
5 Things You Need To Know About President Trump’s Metal Opportunity |
Sanyo Joined The Solar Surge Ahead of Japan Filing a Section 201 Appeal |
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Inflating Inflation, Depressed Port Data Indicates Another Deficit Surge Lies Ahead |
UPS Down in Virginia, Exports Have Worst Month Since 2009 |
Friday, February 16, 2018
Post-Carnival Brazilian Bean Party Could Get Rowdier if China Blocks America |
Chinese Evasion May Be The Least Of The Hardwood Plywood Industry’s Problems |
Panjiva Daily: GSP-Lite for Trump, Trudeau in India and CH Robinson Crushes Expeditors in Cali |
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Odfjell Not The Odd One Out As Tanker 4Q Disappointments, 2018 Hopes, Continue |
Resurgent January for Containers Doesn’t Mean China’s Dog Will Leap |
Consumers Lose as Soil Pipe Fitting Costs Rise Due To Import Case |
Apple Ponders Supplier Switch as Chinese Memory Chip Imports Hit a Record |
HIT Shows The Way With Automation, Challenges are Labor and Capacity Need |
Constellation and Heineken Benefit From Mexican Beer Boom, Face NAFTA Risks |
Trudeau’s India Trade Trip May Slip On Peas and Other Tariffs |
“Make in India” Preemption Drives Trade Deficit to 2013 High |
COSCO and CH Robinson Crush MSC and Expeditors in Slower Cali Container Market |
GSP-Lite May Be The Way Ahead for President Trump, Eventually |
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
LOOP Set To Turn Oil Flows Around As Energy Independence Beckons |
“Make In India” May Drive Ford and Fiat To Local Parts Production |
South Korea Prods the Eagle Once More With Steel, Power WTO Case |
Dell Set To Buck a Dull American PC Market That Saw Falling Imports in January |
Asian Geopolitics Drives Trump’s Curious Calm on Vietnamese Trade |
Venezuela’s Pain is Britain’s Gain as U.S. Oil Purchases Start To Shift |
Belt and Road Rail Surge Supported by Cars, One Third Growth Expected in 2018 |
Food Fight May Spread to Corn and Rice as Well As Beans and Sorghum |
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
MISC Continues Tanker Revenue Disappointments, Writedowns Indicate Slow Recovery |
Hyundai MM Continues To Invest Even As Sales Drop, Profits Fall |
Ribbon Case Not A Big Deal, But Tied Into Worsening China-U.S. Relations |
The Steel Pipe That Might Break The Chinese Trade Camel’s Back |
No More Soft Toys, But Plenty of Chocolate for Valentine’s and Easter |
Singapore Slips On Oil, Gets Carried Away By Containers |
NAFTA Watch: Hawks Gather In The Northern Forests |
Land of Nod Wide Awake Even As Night Falls For Its Stores |
CMA-CGM, COSCO and Maersk Show 3 Stages of Mergers’ Effect on Competition |
Monday, February 12, 2018
10 Billion Yuan Deal Helps Guangxi Exports, Pacific International’s Shipping Growth |
Cheniere Signs Petrochina Ahead Of China-U.S. Trade Battle |
Scotch Whisky Pours Into China, But Irish and Mexican Competitors Loom in America |
Drug Import Costs Already Falling As Trump’s Advisors Call For Trade Policy Solution |
Brazilian Shipping Needs More Than Day-to-Day Competition to Be Competitive |
K+N Steps Back as Kerry and Orient Express Grab Booming U.S. Market |
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Improving CEVA’s IPO Beckons, But Deal With a Competitor Possible Too |
South Africa’s Shipping Surge Still Has Few Liner Choices |
Friday, February 09, 2018
NAFTA Watch: Mexico Concedes Need For Auto ROO Change, Industry Not Yet Worried |
China Fruit Boom Leaves Out Europe But Tastes, Not Logistics, May Be To Blame |
EU Duties Drill Into Chinese CORE Steel Exports |
Remington Set To Unload Finance While Weapons Imports, Checks Decline |
Panama’s Transit Drop, Smaller Diversion Effect Marks Slow Start to 2018 |
Thursday, February 08, 2018
Is THE-Plus The Answer To Tackle Maersk in Brazil? |
American Imports Start 2018 With an 8% Bang, Tariff Barrage Yet To Be Seen |
Hasbro Has Less Force After Importing Too Much Too Soon |
Malaysia May Get a Hand from Indonesian Palm Oil Rules |
Washers Finish Cycle, Solar Panels Fade in January as Trump’s Tariffs Bite |
Maersk Mostly Avoids Competition Trap, Container-Line Discipline Still Needed |
East Coast Ports’ Flying Start in 2018 Faces Automation Risk Later in Year |
DSV Delivers, XPO Gives to Get But Consolidation Is The Question |
Wednesday, February 07, 2018
NAFTA Watch: Trudeau Should Visit Tennessee Not Cali on Campaign Tour |
Make in India Blowback May Be Televised as Sony, Samsung Cut Back Panel Imports |
China Kicks Out Indian Pesticide Precursor, Which Heads to America Instead |
Apple’s X Effect Suggests Strong Start to 2018 Smartphone Shipments |
Virginia Starts Capacity Lift, ONE and COSCO May Challenge Hapag for Supremacy |
China Import Surge Can’t Stop Surplus With U.S. Hitting Another Battle-Baiting Record |
Tesla May Follow Toyota in Going Straight to The Source for Lithium |
Late Call For Phones May Just Be Pre-Tariff Dash In India |
Soybean Entree May Follow Sorghum Starter as China Ponders Food Trade Fight |
Tuesday, February 06, 2018
Acer Spin-offs Expose Tough PC and Display Business, China Tariff Risks |
India Seeks To Crush Chickpea Imports, Australia Has Most to Lose |
Longi Takes Shorter Route to Access Indian Solar Power Market |
Canada’s Record Imports Won’t Stop Another Round of NAFTA Stats Arguments |
China Joins South Korea and Taiwan in Washer, Solar Complaint as Imports Fall |
House Heparin Supply Chain Worries Confirmed by U.S. Import Drop, China Export Surge |
Solar Glass Case Fits “Make In India”, Should Be Aimed At China, Not Malaysia |
Housekeeping HamSu Cuts Jacksonville Service as Venezuela Wanes |
Record Deficit Gives President Trump Reason to Act, Against China |
Monday, February 05, 2018
Nissan’s Growing Popularity in China Shown By Imports, Absorbed Locally |
A Curious Comeback as Bon-Ton Reaches Chapter 11 |
Tillerson Returns to Venezuela Oil Threats, Which May Prove Ineffective |
Nehru’s New Terminal May Be Undermined by Modi’s New Tariffs |
China Tightens North Korea Sanctions, $1.6 billion Surplus Financing A Question |
Coke and Coors Could Pay for Post-Crash Trump Trade Action |
PONY Trots to 2017 Record, COSCO Catching Hapag-Lloyd, Which Caught Maersk |
Sunday, February 04, 2018
Sorghum May Be Stuck With China-U.S. Trade Relations Pain |
Baltimore Competition for MSC May Heat Up as New Cranes Arrive |
NAFTA May Chew Through K+N’s Chattanooga Service Rationale |
Rupert Shows Montreal That Even Grand Capacity Plans Can Be Rapidly Used Up |
Friday, February 02, 2018
BMW, Daimler May Need to Cut Prices as Chinese Independent Retailers Get Boost |
Sinopec’s VLCC Shift As Chinese Fuel Exports Reach Record Levels |
Honda Higher, Daimler Down as U.S. Imported Auto Sales Inch Ahead |
Few Jobs On The Water as Truckers Trundle on and Couriers Accelerate |
Thursday, February 01, 2018
Coffee Trade Perks Up At Year End of 2017, Mexican Producers Face Risks in 2017 |
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in January 2018 |
EU Blocks Iron Imports as Chinese Suppliers Cast About for New Customers |
Jaitley Seeks To Grow Indian Exports Beyond Iranian Rice, American Shrimps |
Fast Start to Dumping Petitions in 2018 as New Cases Come Down the Pipe |
Boxes Beat Bulkers as Oil Rally Drags Fuel Costs, But Not Tankers, Higher |
Taiwan Joins South Korea in WTO Complaint, Reasoning Not Clear |
KORUS Busy, Going Nowhere as Korean Trade Surplus Hits 2011 Low |
UPS Overcooks During the Holidays, Watch Out for Competition in 2018 |
Unsynchronized Expectations Put Global Trade Growth At Risk |
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Boston Pays The Price for MSC’s Rapid Route Realignment |
Aston Martin Seeks Add-Vantage in China |
K-Line and NYK Provide Disappointing Start to Container-Line Earnings Season |
First Call for Last Orders in Global Trade Growth? |
Prospects for Dog Year in Exports as Chinese Expectations Turn Negative |
Stolt Nielsen Cautious For Future, Doing OK For Now |
Maersk’s Service Redesign Could Transform South American Trade, Market Share |
Could Israel and Panama Fall Foul Of Trump’s “Fix Bad Trade Deals” Pledge? |
British Beef, Cars and Ports May Provide Routes to Closer China Trade Ties |
CH Robinson Bests Nippon Express For Revenues, Both Deliver on Margins |
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
MSC Overhauls Hapag-Lloyd as Houston Heads Higher |
Maersk May Slim Its Port-folio Further, COSCO Shipping an Active Buyer |
Nissan’s Tough End to 2017 Could Become a Difficult 2018 as NAFTA Rules Change |
More Energy, Cheaper Drugs and Better Deals Factor In Trump’s State of Trade |
Finding Trump’s Next Appliance Targets – Fridges, Stoves and Vacuum Cleaners |
NAFTA Watch: Die Another Day After Appointment Made, Auto Compromise Missed |
Monday, January 29, 2018
Chinese Scrap Limits Hurt Cardenas, Take Gloss Off Mexican Ports’ Stellar 2017 |
NAFTA Watch: R&D Weighting and Not Waiting for Elections Could Save NAFTA |
Life Support for Medical Devices Brings “Make in India” To $18 Billion |
Waste Industry’s $22 Billion Problem as China Restricts Scrap Imports |
Another Chinese Cast Iron Case in The Pipeline |
Proof of Optimism Needed as ONE Kicks Off Liners’ 4Q Reports |
President Trump’s State of the Union in Trade Is… |
Sunday, January 28, 2018
French Trade Sentiment Hits Pre-Crisis High as Brexit Talks Progress |
CMA-CGM Buys Brazilian Ports, Has to Tackle Maersk and MSC’s Carrier Share |
Friday, January 26, 2018
Sunpower Hopes to Torch Trump’s Tariffs |
$71 Billion Reasons for President Trump To Accelerate Tariff Implementation |
Unmoored Mines Could Accelerate Panama and Rail Shift Risk For Suez Canal |
Record Mexican Energy Imports May Not Defuse NAFTA Tensions |
Boeing Beaten By Bombardier, But May Get Salve of Canadian F/18 Order |
Thursday, January 25, 2018
New Record for Global Trade as Annualized Growth Hits Six Year High |
America Takes Made-in-Russia to the WTO, Beans and Drills Could Benefit |
West Ain’t Best as COSCO Comes to Dominate Pacific Coast Shipping |
CIT CORE Ruling Shows It Ain’t Over Even When It’s Over |
Turning Tankers Hoped For as Euronav Delivers Positive Surprise |
Make-in-India Tariffs Could Spoil Modi’s ASEAN Charm Offensive |
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Shipbuilders Reach $75 Billion in 2017, South Korea Leads by May Falter in 2018 |
Destabilized Stabilization Agreement Toppled, Opens Door for Competition and Deals |
Cali’s 19 Million TEU Year Led by Ever-Expanding COSCO Shipping |
Gas-OPEC of Little Interest for U.S. Gas Exports, Chinese Politics a Growing Risk |
Höegh Has Heightened Ambitions For Car Carriage, West Coast Calls Needed |
UPS, Maersk and Chinese Toy Suppliers Most Exposed to Toys’R’Us Restructuring |
Bombardier Tariff Offtake Will Need Dispute Panel Solution as Politics Loom |
Japan’s CPTPP Gains Could Lose to Mexico’s NAFTA Pains |
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Trudeau’s Primary Trade Focus In India – Be Less Primary Goods Focussed |
Rail Could Be The Way for North American Supply Chains as Trucking Worries Weigh |
Teekay Calls For Cash, Profit Recovery Conditions Yet To Be Seen |
Washer Wars! Korea Seeks $711 Million in WTO Remedies And Ponders 201 Complaint |
Australian Wines Pour Into China, Facing Competition from France |
Bacardi Tops Up With Tequila as Patron Catches Up with Cuervo |
Modi Ready to Power Up Protectionism, Utilities May Pay the Price |
Monday, January 22, 2018
No Easy Options for President Trump in Executing The Aluminum 232 Case |
Philly Could Be Running Near Empty as Oil Imports Slowed Before Chapter 11 Filing |
Savannah Beat Charleston in 2017 As Hapag-Lloyd and MSC Lead Volumes |
201 Down, 6 To Go as President Trump Takes His First 2018 Trade Actions |
Hospitals Build Their Own Supply Chains Even As Most Drug Costs Fall |
Iraq’s Drought Pain Provides New Market Opportunity for American Grain |
Panjiva Discussions: Global Trade Policy Outlook for 2018 |
Sunday, January 21, 2018
CPTPP Focus on Canada Misses NAFTA Conflict, Mexican Needs |
New Orleans New Terminal Will Need Renewed Growth, 2M Cooperation |
Stampede Started, Drive Needed as Japan-U.S. Trade Talks Continue |
Nintendo Relies on Cardboard To Renew Switch Growth as Xbox Expansion Returns |
NAFTA Watch: Autos Matter Most for Success, Automakers Don’t Appear Worried Yet |
5 Policy Controversies Flowing Into One Pipeline Investigation |
Friday, January 19, 2018
Seattle’s Grungy Year Ends With a Small Export Expansion |
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Hapag-Lloyd’s 2018 “Started Well”, Discipline on Pricing and Cost Cutting Needed |
NAFTA Watch: Railroads Warn Termination Could “Haunt Trump Politically” |
SM Line Needs New Friends for Trans-Pacific Aspirations |
Star Wars Sales Lose Force, Solo Will Require Two Freighter Runs |
Trump at 1: 26 Trade Actions But The Deficit Keeps Rising |
JB Hunt Starts Freight 4Q With Margin Disappointment, Competition Worries Remain |
One China Compliance Complicates Taiwan’s Food Export Growth |
CMA-CGM, COSCO Win the Battle for Charleston as 2M Loses Ground |
TV Tariffs May Be Leverage for U.S. To Bring Vietnam to the Negotiating Table |
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Trump’s “Not Sustainable” Call to Xi Could Lead to Action on Metals, Plastics |
South Africa Clears ONE, Big Pink Now Has Rationalization Work To Do |
Alcoa’s Supply Optimism Doesn’t Preclude Protectionism In 2018 |
Lucky 13 For Russia’s Commodity Boom That Faces Steel Tariff Roulette |
King Coal’s Reign Returning as Export Orders Start To Flow |
The Opportunity For President Trump To Go Nuclear on Trade |
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
AT&T Faces No Huawei Option for Phone Equipment as China Falls Out Of Favor |
Toyota Goes Mining to Beat Chinese Auto Competitors to New Lithium Sources |
Venezuela Starves Even As Oil Exports Are Worth Over 35x Food Imports |
Americans Can Pig Out On Mexican Pork as USDA Lifts Import Restriction |
American Farmers Worry About Russian Wheat – Mexican Buyers Are The Bigger Risk |
Gothenburg’s Slump Raises a Red Flag for Port-o-Mation Strategies |
Monday, January 15, 2018
Oil Record Will Only Become An Export Record With Trade Policy Patience |
America Wants Relaxed Japanese Rules to Continue Beef’s Export Stampede |
Lego Set for Growth With Tencent as Imports Build To A Record |
India’s Trade Oil Fuelled Export Growth Offsets Sickly Pharma Performance |
COSCO Shows China Port Activity Remains Robust, Rail The Next Challenge |
Steel Sanctions Could Complicate KORUS Conversations |
Sunday, January 14, 2018
Container Rates Start 2018 With A Bang, 8% Fizzle Will Be Later This Year |
Evergreen Goes Large(r), May Need to Scrap To Maintain Profitability |
Friday, January 12, 2018
South African Box Handling Rises 6% in 2017, CFTA Could Bring More in 2018 |
Korea Shipping Resolution Needed As Hyundai MM – SM Line Relations In Doubt |
China’s Trade Boom Slows, But Export Growth May Still Draw American Protectionism |
Ikea May Need to Assemble A Different Supply Chain If Trump Acts on China Tariffs |
Unsurprising Aluminum Decision Is Already Drawing In Higher Sheet Imports |
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Cemex Helps Tampico Upturn as Steel Weighs on Altamira and Cardenas |
Macron’s China Trip Provides Points of Principle, Few Deals for Airbus or Areva |
NAFTA Watch: Magna International, Already Struggling, Faces a “Lose-Lose-Lose” |
Panama Canal Outpaced Suez in 2017, More to Come in 2018 as Rail Threat Looms |
Supply Chain Skill Matters More Than Detroit Show Flash for Electric Vehicle Success |
Trump Won’t Take It To the Wire On Steel Action, But Could Take It To Steel Wire |
NAFTA Watch: Red Lines and Red Herrings as Trump Leaves Door to Delay Open |
Hapag-Lloyd Leads Virginia’s New Handling Record in 2017 |
Steamships Need Tie-ups as MSC, Maersk Lose Share to CMA-CGM, Hapag-Lloyd |
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
CES 2018: Lenovo Needs to Miix It Up As U.S. Imports Lag Dell, HP Inc |
Toyota and Mazda Head to Alabama, Cutting NAFTA Risk and Imports (Eventually) |
Groundwood Paper Grinds to a Halt as Commerce Decides on Small Part of Case |
NAFTA Watch: Mexico Isn’t Going Soft on ROOs, Just Recognizing The Rise of EVs |
Global Freight Surges Ahead in November as Tailwinds Help Sea and Air Carriers |
NAFTA Watch: Did Canada Just Blow Up NAFTA With a Self-Defeating Technicality? |
Forwarder Consolidation Still Needed After Record 2017 Volumes |
American Imports Set To Finish 2017 With Another Increase as Prices Rise |
Tuesday, January 09, 2018
CES 2018: TV Supply Chain Stretched by Larger, Later Sets |
CES 2018: Samsung Diversifies as Chip Shipments Surge |
Mexican Trucks’ Wonder Year Faces NAFTA Niggles in 2018 |
Nippon Express Joins K+N and Hyundai MM on the China Rail Bandwagon |
CES 2018: Kodak’s Blockchain Move a New Solution to an Old Problem |
Houston Leads as U.S. Port Handling Delivers Record 27 Million TEUs in 2017 |
Monday, January 08, 2018
NAFTA Watch: Could Canada Be Better Off Out Than In? |
70 Month Deficit Record Raises Questions for Trump: If Not Now Then When? If Not China Then Who? |
Macron’s China Wins Could Include Deals for Airbus, Peugeot and Railfreight |
Trump May Call for Whole-of-Government Push As Military Jet Exports Hit 2012 Low |
“Ship Later” Strategies At Work as Seaborne Imports Rise 4% in 2017 |
CES 2018: Huawei Needs a Different Way Into The U.S. as AT&T Balks |
Colombia Aims to Retain a Peace Dividend Flattered by Weak Oil and Coffee Competitors |
Flanges Fly as Case is Delayed Ahead of Trump Action on Steel |
GoPro Gone as Discounts Needed, Supply Chain Data Showed Early Woes |
Coffee Industry’s Dark Time May Be About to Perk Up |
Hyundai, Samsung Limit U.S. Room for Maneuver in KORUS Update Talks |
Sunday, January 07, 2018
Tighter Sanctions Not Yet Biting Into China’s $1.5 billion Surplus With North Korea |
2018 Outlook: The View from Panjiva’s CEO |
2018 Outlook: 8 Issues to Watch in Global Supply Chains |
K+N Looks East, Would Compete with Panalpina and DSV For Deals |
Friday, January 05, 2018
Record Month for Chinese Phones and Servers Faces Spectre, Meltdown Risk |
Ports The New Home of Jobs Growth as Trucking, Couriers Slow |
2018 Outlook: 5 Black Swan Risks for Global Supply Chains |
CES 2018: TV and Smart Speaker Exports Surge as Connected Home Languishes |
Thursday, January 04, 2018
Hyundai Hurries as U.S. Auto Sales Slow Ahead of KORUS Talks |
Seeds of Trump’s Tax Reform to Bear Fruit of Rising Deficit as Import Sentiment Soars |
Indian Sugar Tariffs Bring Sour Taste to RCEP, BTIA Talks |
10% Jump in American Car Sales in South Korea Unlikely to Relieve KORUS Pressure |
Lack of Fear Factor, Import Data Suggest U.S. Gun Sales May Continue to Drop in 2018 |
KORUS Today, Pain Tomorrow as Korean Trade Surplus Remains High Despite Falling |
2018 Outlook: Disruption Matters From Blockchain to Port-o-Mation and Cybersecurity |
American LNG Opportunity in India Wanes as GAIL Pulls Vessel Plans |
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
India May Join America in Restricting Solar To Help Domestic Industry |
RCEP May Be a Better Target Than TPP For Post-Brexit Britain |
Chinese Chemicals Producers Unlikely to Dye Because of India Trade Case |
Trump’s Pakistan Actions May Eventually Impact Adidas and Walmart |
Cold Snap Increases Attraction of U.S. to International Oil, Domestic LNG Suppliers |
Trade Boom Set To Continue As Chinese Sentiment Reaches Highest Since 2012 |
Trump May Renew GSP, India Could Miss Out |
Space Supply Chain Isn’t Just Rocket Science For Orbital ATK and SpaceX |
2018 Outlook: Discipline and Mergers Needed to Ensure Shipping Profits Recover |
Tuesday, January 02, 2018
Container-Lines Had A Tough 4Q After Rates End Down For The Year |
2018 Outlook: Watch Out for More Consolidation in Logistics |
2018 Outlook: Three Marine Modal Battles to Watch |
Monday, January 01, 2018
2018 Outlook: President Trump’s Seven Options For Action |
Friday, December 29, 2017
2018 Outlook: NAFTA – January or Bust |
Unfestive Ribbon Case Wraps Up 2017 Surge in Trade Petition |
Groundwood Case Grinds to a Halt, Avoiding NAFTA Nastiness |
Butanol Case is Business as Normal Rather Than A Trade War Signal |
2018 Outlook: The Alphabet of Global Trade Deals |
Thursday, December 28, 2017
2017 Review: What We Got Wrong, And Why |
2017 Review: Industrial Supply Chains in 12 Most Read Research Reports |
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
2017 Review: Logistics in 12 Most Read Research Reports |
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
2017 Review: U.S. Trade Politics in 12 Most Read Research Reports |
Friday, December 22, 2017
2017 Could Be The Brightest Year Since 2011 For Trade, 2018 Looking Cloudier |
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Kazakh Customs Fix Needed To Unleash China Rail Trade Potential |
Bombardier Jet Case Continues On Its Path, Plenty More Flying Time To Come |
Tough Times for Tankers Push Euronav And Gener8 Together |
Trade Action Stations Ahead as Ports Data Indicates 14th Deficit Rise on Horizon |
2018: The Year of Good Intentions as Yoga Outpaces Running |
Optimistic End to Sweden’s Logistics Year After Strike and Vodka Hangover |
UN Sanctions Need to Address the $1.4 billion North Korea Trade Finance Question |
Americans Raising More Glasses These Holidays, Tequila The Winner |
Tighter Bean Rules May Be China’s New Year Message For Trump |
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Houston’s Humming, Tougher Trump Could Change the Tune |
Hyundai MM Goes Large(r), May Need Closer Alliance Deals as Well as Vessels |
Trump’s Critical Mineral Order May Need “Hard Buy” As Well As Domestic Mining |
Thailand’s Trade Tear Hits 16th Month, Regulatory Risks Ahead |
Bon-Ton’s Financial Fail Follows Sudden Surge in Imports |
Nintendo Sets a Higher Score, May Not Have Cleared the Final Level |
Spotting The Sweet Opportunities to Drive Sales From China’s Tariff Cut Commitment |
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Maersk Hangs Back in Brazilian Boom Month As MSC Grabs Share |
85 Miles and 37% Apart, Charleston Beats Savannah for New China Traffic |
Greenyard’s Dole Bid Isn’t Bananas But May Be About Diversification, Not Growth |
SeaTac Proves Far From Sound After Further Loss of Share to Canada |
Ocean Alliance Adds Bigger Boats to Deal With Success, Further Development Needed |
Phones Looking Less Smart After Trade Slumps, Apple Phases iPhone |
Monday, December 18, 2017
COSCO Shanghai and Hong Kong Show Limits of Asia’s Trade Bounty |
NAFTA Watch: Round 5.5 Wrapped Up in ROOs |
THE Alliance Inches Ahead in First Year, Adds New Routes for Second |
Worst Month In A Decade For Shipbuilders Doesn’t Mean Bad Times Ahead |
Japan’s Ending The Year With A Bang, More Noise To Follow |
Trump Already Has Global Trade Tactics To Go With His National Security Strategy |
Has Lego wrapped up The Holidays from Mexico? |
India Prepares to Expand in Solar, Import Duties Are Possible |
Sunday, December 17, 2017
KORUS Conversations Ready To Start, Autos The Only Word That Matters |
Container Rates Pass Negative Benchmark as Transpacific Routes Prove Far From Stable |
First Shot in 2018’s Trade War? China Cuts Metal Export Tariffs Before U.S. 232 Decision |
Friday, December 15, 2017
India Brings Old Fashioned Protectionism To Encourage New Technology Manufacturing |
Tax Weight Lifting from Indian Exports, Apparel Still Struggling |
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Hyundai MM Finds Rail the Best Way to Europe, Tackling K+N and Ceva |
NAFTA Watch: State Governors Step Up, Michigan Has Much to Lose |
Could Croatia Pay The Price For Netanyahu’s Teva Request? |
An Unwelcome Trade Gift Awaits Trump as Import Inflation Indicates Deficit Gain |
Deal Needed, But Unlikely Soon, To Keep Britain Great in China |
China-South Korea Deal Could Help THAAD-Hit Malaysian Cocoa Farmers |
Chinese Shipbuilding Off The Bottom, Tough 2018 Ahead |
Hapag-Lloyd May Need California Edge To Beat MSC in Mexican Market |
Last Chance for Last Jedi Missed As Merchandise Imports Slump |
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Will Ross Preempt KORUS With A Self-Initiated Autos Investigation? |
WTO Watch: EU and Japan Hand Trump a Stick to Beat China With |
Surging Activity Doesn’t Mean Cali’s Healthy as Fires Rage |
Singapore Soars While Becoming More Reliant on Pacific Basin Routes |
WTO Watch: The Unintended Consequences of a Missed Opportunity |
Maersk Leaves Ineffective TSA, Future May Be Limited Anyway |
India The New Prize for American LNG as Cheniere’s Corpus Christi Awaited |
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Boks’ Box Boom Over, MSC and Maersk Most Exposed |
EU Excise Worries May Make Trade Aspect of Tax Reform More Attractive to Trump |
Charming Charlie’s Troubles Visible Since February in Supply Data |
Shanghai Handling Record Leads Chinese Container Surge, Though Rate Is Slowing |
WTO Watch: India vs. America Matches Food Security vs. Trade Policy |
Yang Ming’s Express Service Seeks to Build Share in $22 Billion Lane |
Panjiva Discussions: NAFTA – Deal, or No Deal? Webinar and Q&A |
Trump’s Energy Independence Hope Grows Closer as American Oil Exports Triple |
Monday, December 11, 2017
Stevedores’ Payrolls Return to Growth While Warehouses Beat Bikes |
Expeditors’ Cuts Volumes as Tax-Reform Driven Competition Looms |
Oakland Felled as Port as Export Handling Drops 10% |
Autonomous Port May Not Alleviate Shanghai’s Congestion Woes |
Apple Needs A Little Help From Its Frenemies To Secure Indian Parts Duty Deferral |
Maersk Lags in U.S. Share, Joins COSCO and ONE In Facing Post-Deal Challenge |
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Maersk’s Pressure Pockets, Positive Fundamentals Come As Container-Rates Droop |
Lackluster Exports Nearly Break Virginia’s 9 Month Growth Run |
Evergreen May Shoot Ahead as Taiwan’s Trade Activity Surges |
Panama Continues Battle with Suez as Southeast U.S. Diversions Rise |
Friday, December 08, 2017
Ford Shifts Supply Chain Once More as Mexican Exports Lag General Motors |
Brexit Steps Ahead, EU Internal Position on New Trade Deal The Big Hurdle Now |
China’s Trade Surge Brings Surplus vs. America to Record-Breaking $274 billion |
Toy Supply Chains Face Failing Toys’R’Us, Mattel-Hasbro Deal and Lackluster Imports |
Thursday, December 07, 2017
Nova Scotia Fishes For $2.1 billion China Opportunity |
Steel Cheating Decision Made After Switch Visible For 26 Months |
South Korea Goes Into Bat For Hanwha Q-Cells As Solar Tariffs Loom |
Softwood Spat Done in U.S., But Not Over as Rot Starts To Set Into Exports |
Long Beach Goes Further For Longer as U.S. Port Handling Surges 8% Higher |
WTO Watch: WTO Doesn’t Need To Make Global Trade Great Again, It Already Is |
Wednesday, December 06, 2017
SQM Ponders Lithium Projects as American Battery Buyers Lose Out |
NAFTA Watch: Mexico’s “50-50” View Reflects Hawkish-Yet-Optimistic Stance |
Samsung Heavy’s New Capital May Be Good For No-One In Shipping |
Thailand Undermines RCEP Before It Even Begins, Nissan May Pay The Price |
The Great U.S-Canada Dogfight Takes Another Barrel Roll |
NAFTA Watch: The State of Play and The Future of Negotiations in 11 Charts |
Apparel Unfolding, Protectionist Absence Drive 6% Seaborne Import Growth |
Tuesday, December 05, 2017
Hapag-Lloyd and K+N’s CO2 Commitment May Mean Hard Capacity Choices |
NAFTA Watch: Canada’s Trade Recovery Belies Autos Slump, Hawkish Response Likely |
Toyota Toys With U.S. Market As Auto Sales Outlook Dims |
Xiaomi IPO Could Support Indian Strategy Shown By Its 195% Export Growth |
Deficit Surge Raises Need For Urgency In Trump Trade Policy Action |
Monday, December 04, 2017
Samsung Displays Vietnamese Growth Potential |
Descending Airfreight Lags Box-Shipping’s Growth For a Second Month |
Tankers Tank Once More as Rates Defy OPEC-Inspired Oil Surge |
NAFTA Watch: Red Lines or Blood Trails? Canada’s Sticking Points |
Xi-Trudeau Failure May Be a Matter of FTA Philosophy, Not Negotiation |
CAT Looks To Extend 120% Overseas Auto Battery Sales Growth With New Factory |
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in November 2017 |
Holiday Cheers, Not Sneers, as Supply Chain Efficiency Means Decorations Arrive Late |
Less Hard Luck for Hardwood as ITC Doesn’t Back-Date Duties |
Sunday, December 03, 2017
South Korean Trade Growth Returns, KORUS Talks Not Back Yet |
Global Trade Growth Looks Secure Even as U.S. Managers Become Less Positive |
Small Sodium Case May Be Last of Year, or First of a New Rush |
Dark End to The Year In Prospect for Container-Lines |
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Busan Export Drop Leads Korean Port Activity to Lowest Growth Since February |
Battery Battering Risk for Tesla as Potash Considers SQM Options |
Container Freight in Rude Health as Global Port Growth Hits 18th Straight Increase |
Houston Goes Large With One Fifth Jump in Container Handling |
Small Sentiment Gain Suggests Chinese Export Boom Not, Quite, Over Yet |
Hapag’s Target More Ambitious Than Maersk’s as Transformative Deals Progress |
Fewer Shots in the Americano as Global Coffee Trade Dries Up |
Trudeau Should Get Away From The Basics With China |
Mexican Powers Up as Electricity Trade Reaches a Balance |
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Yang Ming Offering Brings Maritime Sector 2017 Capital Raise to $7.1 billion |
Tool Chests’ Open and Shut Case Not Quite Closed |
Curve in The Road, Or Crash Ahead for Japan’s Auto Exporters? |
Gulf Surge, Puerto Rican Recovery Drive Mexican Container Handling To New High |
USTR Looks Before Trump Leaps on Solar, Washer Tariff Action Opportunity |
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
NAFTA Watch: Barra and Marchionne’s ROO Concerns Likely Fell on Deaf Ears |
Unlucky 13th Rise in American Deficit Shows Need for Policy Action |
The Curious Case of the Aluminum Sheet Exports from China |
Peugeot Steps on the Chinese Gas to Meet European Engine Needs |
Confidence in Steel Inaction Leads German Trade Outlook to Six Year High |
ABB and Kawasaki Join Forces as Robot Army Grows |
G20 Steel Resolve Unlikely to Prevent Trump Tariff Action |
Monday, November 27, 2017
Mexican Export Record Great for the Economy, Bad for NAFTA Negotiations |
American Builders Knock On Wood For Canadian Government’s Dispute |
American Ports Have a Ball After 8th Handling Hike |
Maersk Waved Through By South Korea, Brazil Exclusion a Surprise |
San Miguel Seeks Beer Sales in America, China Looks Frothier |
Sunday, November 26, 2017
NAFTA Watch: Trade Rules Help Enshrine Mexican Energy Reform, Boost Investment |
ZIM and CMA-CGM Help Liners’ Profitability Growth Beat Forwarders and Tankers |
Global Trade Sets 4th New Record, Fastest Annual Growth in 6 Years Ahead |
Polluting Petcoke Put to One Side in India, Helping Natural Gas |
187 Ways to Grow $35 Billion of China-Bound Exports |
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Navios, Frontline on Back Foot as Tanker / Bulker Profits Slide |
Indian Exports of Peas Have a Chance, For a While |
Thailand Avoids China’s Fate, Could Still Get Washed Up |
Peak Pig Passed as China Constructs Bigger Farms to Offset Imports |
It’s Up TEU for New York, But Not Because of China |
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Shipyards’ Renaissance Extends As Annual Deliveries Reach $78 Billion |
NAFTA Watch: Auto Questions and Data Mean Nothing to Philosophy |
India May Apply Onion Duties Now To Avoid Tears Later |
40% Rise in Trade Petitions Will Help Manufacturers, Could Hurt Buyers |
NAFTA Watch: More Energy Will Help After Round 5 Sagged |
$2.9 Billion Opportunity if Tax Cut Whets Chinese Appetite for Dried Grains |
Trump Trade Strategy Embodied in a $90 Washing Machine Tariff |
Patriotic Poland Helps American Weapons Exports Shoot the Lights Out |
Monday, November 20, 2017
Government Crackdown May Offset Rapid Growth at China’s Ports |
Global Surge, Shanghai Surprise As Container-Rates Head Up and Down |
Japan’s Trade Surge Won’t Help The Chemistry of Aso-Pence Talks |
Business Booming, as Usual, as Charleston Prepares for Further Growth |
Black Friday – The Day to Buy Dumped Washers, Leftover Laptops |
SeaTac’s Not-So Lucky Seven Sees Shipments Slide |
Sunday, November 19, 2017
Agricultural KORUS Controversy Could Kick Start of Talks Into 2018 |
A Year of Growth for Canada’s Ports as Rupert and Vancouver Beat SeaTac |
Maersk Takes Preemptive Action in Brazil, Hapag-Lloyd Steps Up |
Trudeau Follows Trump in Search of China FTA |
NAFTA Watch: 41 Changes Don’t Change Trade Trumpenomics |
Friday, November 17, 2017
Resin Still In a Sticky Situation After Imports Only Fall a Little on ITC Case |
India to Weighs Exports of Iron Ore Or Tax Income in Duty Decision |
Trump’s Unsung Asia Success – A Deal with Duterte |
Cardinal Makes a Virtue Of Exiting The Fast Growing Chinese Pharma Market |
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Tax Reform May Help Hard Spirits Drinkers, and Mexican Tequila Makers |
Brexit Far From the Only Game in Town for the EU as EPA, BTIA Progress |
Steel Users May Lose After Ross’s Warnings, Global Excess Action |
12th Trade Deficit Rise in the Balance as Prices Inflate, Ports Slow |
Cold Truth of Ross Steel Doctrine Confirmed by Mechanical Tube Decision |
$600 Million At Stake in EU-China MES Spat |
High Score Potential for Videogames Thanks to Nintendo Switch Surge |
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Building Supply Cases Validate Chinese Worries, But Not The End of The World |
China Trade Considerations – The View from Shanghai |
California Party Over as LA Exports Drag |
Downhill Trend For Winter Sports Gear Imports |
Panjiva Discussions – China Trade Opportunities Webinar and Q&A |
India Exports Interrupted By GST Refunds, Pharma Price Competition |
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Trump’s Trip in 5 Charts: Message Delivered, Contracts Signed but No Deals |
China’s Trade Policy – Managing Both Sides of the Pacific |
NAFTA Watch: Round 5, The Trouble With Trade Tribbles |
Hapag-Lloyd Takes the Profitability Crown After Absorbing UASC |
Monday, November 13, 2017
Singapore’s Shipping Surge Includes Crude Record, Little Panama Effect |
China Makes the Most of a Bigger Playground as Toy Exports Hit Record |
China’s 18x Pharma Sales Opportunity Comes Backed With Export Aspirations |
Whatever Happened to Chinese Apparel Exports? (Spoiler: Vietnam) |
Yang Ming May Invest Its Way to Higher Profitability, Strategic Issues Remain |
Fingerlings Point to the Lead As Fisher-Price Zoom’s In At The Last Minute |
Russia Crowds Out Saudi Oil from Chinese Market, U.S. Supplies Could Struggle |
X Doesn’t Mark the Spot as Two-Stage iPhone Release Cuts Chinese Exports |
Hasbro Toys with Mattel as Rising Purchases Fail To Turn Into Sales |
Sunday, November 12, 2017
NAFTA Watch: CPTPP OK ex NAFTA ROO SNAFU |
APEC Action Needed to Match Trump-Compliant Words After Vietnam Follows China |
The $4 Trillion Chinese Trade Opportunity in 5 Charts |
MSC’s Volumes Fly as Maersk Focuses on Profits |
Friday, November 10, 2017
MSC Grounding Drags Boks’ Box Handling to Year Low |
America vs. Asian Acronyms as Trump Preaches Bilaterals, Xi Aims for Multis |
Thursday, November 09, 2017
Ukrainians Hang Tough as India Doubles Wheat Tariffs |
Two Stories for Three Tankers as DS Norden and Teekay Miss, Odfjell Beats |
Savannah’s Sudden Surge Sees China Volumes Crowd Out Europe’s |
Panama and Suez Handle a Flood of New Traffic, Neopanamax Transits Hit a Record |
UPS Takes Share from Expeditors as Deutsches Duke It Out, But At What Cost? |
Yang Ming’s Recovery Continues Apace as Hyundai MM Stuck in Doldrums |
Norfolk Nets New Record as Chinese Volumes Surge |
Wednesday, November 08, 2017
Boeing May Need to Prep Next Trade Case as FAA and CAAC Ink Agreement |
New Record for Imports Likely As Protectionist Risks Fail To Arrive |
New Record for China-U.S. Trade Surplus Looms Over Xi-Trump Meeting |
Expeditors Leads the Forwarders Forward With Disciplined Ocean Freight |
Trump Gets $253 Billion, But No Reset in China Trade Relations From Xi |
Bronze Performance from Golden Week in Taiwan |
Jaxport Leads Nation’s Ports to Eighth Straight Handling Expansion |
Tuesday, November 07, 2017
No Fireworks, But Maybe More Missiles, From Trump’s Meeting with Moon |
Maersk May Lose Its Profit Crown To Hapag After APMT Struggles |
Sunday, November 05, 2017
So Far, So Little as Trump-Abe Meet in Japan |
SCI Revenues Saved by Liners, Profits Cursed by Tankers |
Trump’s China Trip Matters as U.S. IP Exports Hits Lowest Since 2010 |
Friday, November 03, 2017
COSCO’s Deal Makes Cogent Sense, But Needs a Growth Boost |
Denier Fibers Down as Commerce Applies Duties, Manufacturers Head Elsewhere |
Duty Dispute Casts Cloud Over Indian Solar Growth |
MISC Leaves Tankers for Dust as LNG Delivers Cool Results |
Canadian Exports a Car Crash, Will Loom Over November NAFTA Negotiations |
Mahindra Heads to Detroit, Expanding a Tractor Supply Chain to Cars |
Thursday, November 02, 2017
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in October 2017 |
Coffee Turns Sour as Exports from Brazil, Vietnam Slump |
Imported Truck Sale Surge Keeps on Rolling |
Mexican Gas Surge Starts as New Pipelines Awaited |
Boxes Beat Jets For First Time in 13 Months as Global Trade Growth Continues |
GoPro Imports Go Slow as Sales Outlook Disappoints |
NAFTA Watch: Lumber Let-Down Looms Over Round Five |
Wednesday, November 01, 2017
Putin Follows Panama As Latest Threat to Suez Canal Volumes |
Evergreen Issuance Brings Marine Capital Raise to $7 Billion in 2017 |
CH Robinson Beats the Street (Again), Still Has Far to Travel |
Container Rates Pull Out of Nose-Dive, Bunker Costs The Next Challenge |
Under Armour Under The Weather As Imports Zig When Sales Zag |
World Trade Growth in German Hands as American Managers Step Back |
Steady Sailing for Seaspan as New CEO Prepares to Come Aboard |
Trump’s Asia Trade Trip in 6 Charts – Watch Energy, Beans, Chips and the Deficit |
India Dials Up Domestic Smartphones as Component Imports Surge |
Trade Boom Quiets in South Korea Ahead of KORUS Talks, Trump Visit |
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Clear Skies and Holidays, Not Concerns, May Explain Cooling China Optimism |
NYK Kicks Off Forwarder Consolidation At Below-Sector Valuation |
Two Tales For Three Shippers as K-Line Diverges from MOL and NYK |
Tax Changes Needed for Indian Apparel Exports to Be Dressed for Success |
Steel Makes the Difference As Altamira Leads Mexican Port Growth |
Euronav Blows The Lights Out, But Times Remain Dark for Tankers |
Trump May Not Have The Answer He Wanted, But Will Beat Panels Anyway |
Monday, October 30, 2017
Korean Container Flows Show Alliance-Driven Consolidation of Routes |
American Sales Slow Japanese Auto Exports as Subaru Recall Beckons |
COSCO Shipping Does Enough To Buy Boats, Finance Orient Overseas |
Mattel Fills Its Own Toy Cupboard as Retailers Tighten Up |
China Will Seek to Foil U.S. Aluminum Case at the WTO |
Europe and a Bridge Matters as Much as Panama For New York |
Nikon Cures Selfie-Evident Problem as Camera Exports Shuttered |
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Modi and Trump’s Help Needed to Reboot India-U.S. Trade Policy Progress |
Tax Reform The Enemy Of Steel as Commerce Grapples With Cases, Awaits 232 |
Wonder Woman Vanquishes The Clowns, But Minions Still Rule This Halloween |
Friday, October 27, 2017
Orient Overseas Revenues Soar As Competition Remains Fierce |
DSV’s Deal Desire May Be Thwarted By Panalpina’s Financial Flexibility |
Happy German Engineers Predict Further European Export Growth |
Thursday, October 26, 2017
DP World Rides The Rising Tide of Global Trade Growth |
Vive l’Optimisme! French Export Orders Hit February 2008 High |
India Cracks Down On Stainless Steel After Earlier Duties Fail |
Immediately Tangible Results for Trump in China May Preclude Chip Opportunity |
DSV Beats K+N and Panalpina, Confidence-Driven Acquisitions Awaited |
Hurricanes and Earthquake Limit, But Don’t Defeat, Mexican Trade Growth |
Deficit Jump 11 Follows Fastest American Capital Goods Import Growth in 5 Years |
COSCO Follows Hapag and Hyundai MM, Stock Offer Could Exceed $1 billion |
Container-lines’ Profit Outlook in 4 Charts |
Five Years After Sandy Storms Remain a Disruptive Fact-of-Life For Ports |
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
13% Spread In Container Handling Hints At 11th Deficit Widening To Come |
Charleston Bests Savannah as China Imports Hit New High |
Prabhu and Ross Need to Deliver Modi and Trump’s Comprehensive Review |
COSCO-Orient Leaps Antitrust Hurdle Despite China-U.S. Number 1 Position |
California’s Wildfires and Europe’s Harvest Could Make Wine a Rarer Commodity |
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Global Trade Hits a New Record As Growth Streak Hits 19 Months |
China Record Helps Savannah Hit 11th Straight Month of Growth |
Bahri Shows Tanker Profits Heading Off Course to 2012 Lows |
Hasbro Hasn’t Had a Good September, Holiday Hopes for Sales Sliced |
Xi Gives COSCO Cover for Further Bids as Deals Reach $13 billion in 3Q |
Return to 2015 Exports Sees Shipyards Extend Recovery After Orders Resume |
NAFTA Watch: Trump May Have Cut “Terminate” In Favor of “New NAFTA” |
PdVSA Debt Payments Matter to Venezuelan Food, and U.S. Gasoline |
China Baby-Food Boom Bested by Milk and Butter as U.S. Exports Resume |
Biodiesel Refiners Show Faith In A Deal That Doesn’t Yet Exist |
Monday, October 23, 2017
EC Accuses China of Trying to Get a Cheap Ride in E-Bikes |
Tesla Tests the Mold With Shanghai Supply Chain Innovation |
Commerce Reapplies Tariffs After Dumpers Tarnish Stainless Market |
Tanker Profits May Hit Worst 3Q Since 2014 As Rates Drop, Bunker Rallies |
Mexico Looks to Change the Gas Script After Pipes Smoke Boats |
Competition Between LNG Buyers Could Heat Up as Temperature Cools |
Ecotec Exit Means Ford Will Lose Its Indian Export Crown |
India Looks to West to LatAm, Apparel May Be The Growth Route |
NAFTA’s Auto Outcome Could Leave Brunswick Expansion as Hero or Zero |
Sunday, October 22, 2017
Resin Case Will Prove Stickier for Indian Than Chinese Suppliers |
Friday, October 20, 2017
Skechers Draws an Upward Line as Imports, Earnings Soar |
USTR Cuts Oroza’s Illicit Timber Exports, Indirect Shipments Must Be Tracked |
Seattle and Tacoma Go Their Own Way As Container Volumes Stagnate |
CMA-CGM May Win, Ningbo-Zhoushan Lose as Shanghai Free Port Status Expands |
Rotterdam Likes Big Boats as Growth Accelerates for Eighth Straight Quarter |
Thursday, October 19, 2017
WTO BAHA Brouhaha Unlikely To Change Trump’s Purchasing Policy |
Beantown’s Been Increasingly Bound to Chinese Imports |
Chinese Flat Steel Not Flattened as India Implements Import Duties |
Exporters Can’t Decide What to Do With Their PET as ITA Launches Case |
Paper Delay Avoids NAFTA Controversy, Raises Import Risks |
Autos Fall Behind Japan’s Export Surge, Pharmaceuticals Look Healthy |
Alcoa’s Improved Aluminum Outlook Doesn’t Cut Need for Trump’s Tariffs |
Nissan’s Japanese Quality Woes Raise Mexican Output Opportunity |
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Japan-India Pact May Drive Significant LNG Trade Growth |
A Bit More BTIA Will Help India’s Lackluster Export Growth to the EU |
Shipping Capacity Worries Should Grow as China Vessel Orders Hit 16 Month High |
NAFTA Watch: A Useful Delay for the Wrong Reason |
K+N’s Asia Rail Expansion Brings Unwelcome Competition for Ocean Carriers |
Rooms-to-Go Import Record May Be Tabled If Trump Takes Tariff Option |
Panalpina’s 11th Miss Shows Fierce Forwarder Competition |
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
NAFTA Watch: America Plays Chicken With Canada As Talks Wind Up |
Potatoes Delivered, Small Cars Needed After Pence-Aso Talks |
Inflating Inflation Could Precede a 12th Month of U.S. Import Growth |
Winter Sports Retailers Hit Slopes Earlier, But Lower |
Hanwha’s Solar Surge the Unintended Result of American Safeguarding Case |
Rupert and Vancouver Could Vanquish SeaTac as Canadian Handling Hits High |
Monday, October 16, 2017
Panjiva Discussions – The Indian Trade Opportunity |
Pence’s Beef With Aso May Be Beef, And Cars, And the Deficit |
Hurricane Opportunities, NAFTA Risks Drive Mexican Auto Exports to New High |
K+N’s Growth Comes At A Cost, Profits May Have Fallen Behind Peers |
Trump Wins as Bombardier Pairs With Airbus in Alabama |
Small is Better as COSCO Shipping Ports’ Growth Reaches 3 Year High |
Oil Import Demand Grows, May Not Stop a Bad Quarter for Teekay and MISC |
Houston Handling Hike from Hurricane Recovery, China Diversions |
Strong Container Growth Belies Weak South African Export Economy |
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Rate Downturn Hits 11 Weeks, Is It January 2015 Again? |
Long Beach Surges as SoCal Becomes Ever More China-Dependent |
India Joins Asia’s Export Party With Oil Greasing the Wheels |
Friday, October 13, 2017
Shenzhen Hits Record as Chinese Container Handling Has September Surge |
Monster Capital Raise Good for Hyundai MM, Not For Container-Lines |
Xi Takes The Five Year View, Needs To Deal With Trump in Months |
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Pacific Basin Fills Up With Higher Priced Contracts, Quietly Confident for Future |
India Urges Import Vigilance As Chinese Fireworks Fizzle |
NAFTA Watch: Ross Hawkish on ROOs, China and Consumers May Pay |
Virginia’s Growth Relies on Europe as China Crawls, Exports Drop |
Hatchimals Surprise Isn’t a Surprise, But Toys’R’Us Is |
Pharmas Harvest Lower Prices as Mexican Suppliers Grow Their Market Share |
Oakland’s Athletic Performance Sees China Return, Empties Leave |
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Surging Energy Bolsters Russian Trade Against Sanctions, Steel a Risk |
Koch Aims To Be The Real Thing in Mexican Fuel Trade |
Ford’s Transit Case Has Lessons for Bombardier, But May Be Moot |
CMA-CGM Credit Cloud Lifted, Supports Small Deal Strategy |
One Year On From Hanjin U.S. Shipping Reaches New Consolidation Peak |
New Record for Taiwan’s Exports Relies Less on China, Trump Risk Low |
Risk of Global PC Glut as Dell Imports, Quanta Exports Surge |
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
No WTO Complaint Capitulation Likely As China Leaves Grain Quotas Unchanged |
UPS Heads Up, Expeditors Loses NVOCC Share as Panalpina and DSV Debate Deals |
8 Beats 8, X and 2 as Smartphone Release Season Starts |
Catalan Independence Raises Questions for A Fifth of Spain-U.S. Sea Trade |
No Deal, or Just Brexit Technicalities? |
Monday, October 09, 2017
Weapons Orders Rocket on THAAD Deal, But Arms Exports Yet To Takeoff |
Stolt-Nielsen Strikes Downbeat Tone From Dark Quarter For Tanker Operators |
Sponge Unsqueezed Has Lesson for Bombardier Case’s Long Landing |
India Beats Back Chinese Steel Rod Exports |
NAFTA Watch: Round 4, Time To Drive a Bargain |
Sunday, October 08, 2017
Record Year Ahead? U.S. Imports Boom as Protectionism Remains Bottled |
Rapidly Recovered Hurricane Upheavals Means Port Growth Continues |
Friday, October 06, 2017
Brazil Runs Silicon Metal Gauntlet as Commerce Takes Postponed Step Forward |
Foil Case Delay Won’t Hurt Reynolds, Already Costing American Wrappers |
Forged Steel Appeal Forges Ahead After 232 Review Stalls |
Panama’s Incentives Sap Suez’s Share of Traffic, Rekindles Diversions |
Logistics Avoids Surprise Payrolls Decline, Sailors and Stevedores Do Best |
Thursday, October 05, 2017
Australia Needs Deals Once The Energy Export Extravaganza Ends |
India Adds Weight to Duties as Winter Wheat Awaited |
Tasty American Garlic Market Draws in Chinese Exports Despite Duties |
For KORUS, How “Amended” Is “Amended” Matters as Much as The Amending |
Olympic Absence Trims American Imports, But Chinese Deficit Hits New High |
Washer Result Requires Another Spin from Samsung, LG Strategies |
Tchibo, Lavazza and Smucker Turn Backs on Brazil as Coffee Supplies Slide |
Reasons for Canada to be NAFTA-ssertive As Export Sales Suddenly Slow |
Wednesday, October 04, 2017
Silico Manganese Review Comes As South African Exports Surge |
Hurricane Damage a Boon for Truck and Car Importers |
Rapid Action Needed As Section 201 Review Leads to Washer Import Surge |
“Crazy”, Deficit-First Narrative Needs to End for KORUS Talks to Succeed |
Global Box Handling’s Growth Stretch Hits 16th Month, Still Lags Airfreight |
COSCO Leads Brazil’s Bumper August, While Maersk Takes a Subtle Path |
Declining American Weapons Imports May Turn After Las Vegas Atrocity |
Tuesday, October 03, 2017
Trump’s Surprising Thai Tone Suggests Big Deficits Aren’t a Cause for Conflict |
Indian Gas Demand To Rise, America May Not Be Able to Assist |
Lighthizer Puts Latin America on Warning, Panama The Likely Main Target |
U.S. Complains About Canadian Wine Retailer |
Iran Growth Opportunity For Chinese Exporters as Rail Services Expand |
Panalpina’s Deal Hunger Could Be Satisfied by Asian Partner |
Mylan Shows Aurobindo The Way as Pharma Gets Left Behind in India’s Export Revival |
Monday, October 02, 2017
Tankers and Bulkers Beat Boxes as September Rates Rally |
September Bunker Surge Outpaces Shippers’ Slump |
Plenty of Trade, Liners Can’t Get Paid |
South Korea’s Surge Will Be Red Rag To Trump’s Bull |
Slowdown Interrupted – China’s Export Hopes Reach Six Year High |
CMA-CGM Shows Bigger Isn’t Always Preferred When Making Acquisitions |
8 Global Trade Issues To Watch in 4Q 2017 |
America Joins The World In Making Trade Great(er) Again |
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in September 2017 |
Sunday, October 01, 2017
Steel Flange Case Adds Edge to Imports as Indian Shipments Double |
Good Month Baltimore – Container Handling Hits New High as European Traffic Surges |
ArcelorMittal Turns Up Heat in Mexican Steel, Metal One Has the Most to Lose |
Friday, September 29, 2017
Ikea Buys TaskRabbit as Imports Hop Ahead of The Herd |
Plastics Makers Hope Complaints Will Resin-ate With ITC |
U.S. Port Handling Growth Slows in August, Hanjin Balances Hurricanes in September |
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Japanese Auto Export Acceleration Hits November 2015 High, U.S. No Help |
EPA Could Double Biofuels Exports, Meeting Three Trump Targets |
It’s Up TEU, New York Sets Record for Container Handling |
Hapag-Lloyd Shows The Secret of Good Finance Is Timing |
NAFTA Watch: Round 3 Makes Progress, But Not In The Areas That Matter |
German Brass Shines as ITC Polishes Off Duty Review |
Georgia Was On a Roll in August, But Mind Out For Hurricane Disruptions in September |
India’s Goes For Domestic Telecoms Growth, Apple and Foxconn a Case in Point |
Capital Goods Record Can’t Prevent U.S. Deficit Rise, Or Need for Policy Focus |
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
European Trade Outlook Beams as German Electronics Makers Brighten |
Busan Leads South Korean Port Growth, But Lags International Peers |
Jet Battle Will Rumble On, Sales War Moves On To China |
Orange Juice Imports Face Sticky Situation After Storm Damage Cuts Crops |
Mexico’s Trade Surge Continued in August, Surplus vs. U.S. Expands Once More |
America’s Export Container Handling Drops 5% As Charleston Follows the Pack |
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Ross and Li Could Chip Away At Trade Balance Ahead of Trump’s Visit |
Panama Adds Bait As It Seeks To Capture More Big Fish |
Harvey’s Houston Harm Drags Exports Down to Worst Since June 2009 |
Bunker Reaches 2015 Highs on Hurricane-Driven Oil Price Spike |
South African Break-Bulk Breaks as Containers Continue to Grow |
Maersk Takes a Step Closer To HamSu in Brazil, South Africa The Next Hurdle |
Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria Recovery Hampered by Reliance on Dominican Republic |
Regulatory Burdens on Chinese Food Postponed, Not Cancelled |
Monday, September 25, 2017
Obama-Era Grain Dispute Adds Another Front to Trump’s China Trade Battle |
China Applies New North Korean Sanctions as Imports Boom |
DP World’s Ecuador Expansion Adds 40% to National Handling |
Global Trade Climbed By Fastest Annual Rate Since 2012 in July |
Orient Overseas’ 12x Margin Advantage Shows Way Ahead for COSCO |
Jet Decision Today Only Part of Long Haul Trade Spat |
Indian Autos Meet Mexican, European Buyers’ Needs |
Mexico’s August Port Gains Belie September Woes To Follow |
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Another Complication For U.S. / Canada Relations Emerges from the Wood |
Trump Solar Decision Could Lead to Post-Monsoon Rush to India |
ITC Gives Trump His Expected Solar Ammunition, Some Curious Conclusions |
Friday, September 22, 2017
Steel Can Kicked Down The Road, Won’t Be Any Easier To Pick Up Later |
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Steel Buyers Win as Commerce Tube Case Fails As a Deterrent |
Thai Export Boom Makes Government Look Conservative, But Has Commodity Risks |
South Korea Calls for KORUS Talks, Trump Wants It Straightened Out |
NAFTA Watch: Round 3 – Attack of the Hawks, More Hawk Food to Follow |
The Rising, Diversifying Oil Trade in India |
Sunrise on a Dark Day for Solar Power Equipment Exporters |
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Japan’s Exports Accelerate at Fastest Rate Since 2013, Policy Cost Looms |
Maersk Sells Tankers For Its Own Valuation, But a Fraction of Tanker Peers |
$704 billion of Indian Trade in Five Charts |
Shipyards Becalmed in August, But New Wind For Sales |
The Fall and Rise of the Indian Textile Industry |
Puget Sound’s Quieter Activity As Exports Slump |
CETA Comes Into Force, For a Given Value of Force |
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
India Tires of Chinese Exports, Joins EU and U.S. In Applying Tariffs |
Handheld Weapons Regulations Recruited to the U.S. Deficit Cutting Cause |
Trump Ready for “Further Action” On Venezuela, Faces Oil vs. Food Conundrum |
Tariffs Fail to Brake Seamless Steel Pipe Imports, New Case Needed |
BAHA, Section 232 Action Needed From Trump as Russian Steel Shipments Surge |
Export Prices Outpace Imports, But California Data Shows Deficit May Not Fall |
China’s Surging LNG Demand Needs U.S. Supplies as Cheniere Shrugs Off Harvey |
Lighthizer Affirms Autos, China IP Policies As Major Items for Trump Trade Action |
Monday, September 18, 2017
Russia Shipping Support For Grain May Be Export Diversification Move |
Playtime May Be Over For Toys ‘R’ Us |
Tesoro Takes Valero’s Volumes as Hurricanes Howl |
British Politics Meet Canada-U.S. Aerospace Trade Spat |
Canada’s Western Ports Head North as DP World Boosts Prince Rupert |
Sunday, September 17, 2017
America’s Booze, Tobacco and Weapons Trade Hits New High in July |
India’s Commodity Export Boom Continues, But Challenges Lie Ahead |
Trade Petitions Wanted as Titanium Sponge Move Mops Up Last New Case |
Hapag-Lloyd’s Reefer Expansion Faces Shrinking U.S. Market |
Tsakos Brings Disappointing End to Disappointing 2Q For Tankers |
CMA-CGM’s Sales Success Has Many Parents, Raises Liners to Two Year High |
Friday, September 15, 2017
Toolboxes Only A Partially Shut Case |
NAFTA Watch: Softwood Offer Adds Trees to The NAFTA Wood |
Singapore Handling Growth Resurgent, Refocussed on SoCal Over East Coast |
Chinese Shipbuilders’ Orderbooks Expand, For The Wrong Reason |
COSCO Paces Mainland as Hong Kong Hates Hato |
Thursday, September 14, 2017
ESB Rubber Case Partially Erases Imports, But Tire Costs Will Bounce |
Toyota’s LNG Carrier Push Meets Fuel Rule and Shipping Demand Growth Needs |
America Has Another Rattle of the North Korea Trade Saber at China |
Better Back to School Season After Late Summer Shipment Surge |
North Korea, 301 Review and Statistics May Swamp Ross’s China Trip |
Fingerlings Point to Better U.S. Toy Import Season, Hatchimals May Surprise |
NAFTA Watch: Sunset Casts Shadow Over Round 3 |
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Trade Case Delay Has a High Cost For Steel Tube Producers |
California’s Export Slump in August Not Just a Hanjin Thing |
Trump Could Act Soon on Solar, But Easy Actions Risk Negative Reactions |
Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk Have Tough August as MSC Thrives |
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Veracruz and Coatzacoalcos Closed, Disrupting 4,200 TEUs of Daily Handling |
China Ports’ 17 Month Growth Run May Slow Soon |
New Weapons Sales Locked, Exports Not Yet Loaded |
Apple X Anticipation Slows U.S. Phone Imports, While Samsung Grows Note-ably |
Jet Salesman-In-Chief Secures $9 billion Order |
15 Month Global Container Growth Streak May Be Near An End |
Expeditors and Schenker Lead NVOCC Growth, Panalpina and DSV Under the Weather |
UN Snips North Korea’s Role as China’s Seamstress |
Monday, September 11, 2017
KORUS Future Uncertain as South Korean Surplus Slides |
Panama Canal Usage Slips, Diversion Effect Matures |
Hurricane Irma’s 10,600 TEU Daily Closures May Hurt Building Materials’ Availability |
Diverting Story of Storms and Canals Boosts Virginia’s Ports |
Taiwan Ports’ Decline Accelerated in July, Lagged Asian Peers |
NAFTA Watch: Ottawa Needs to Be All About Autos |
Houston’s Harvey Loss is Miami’s Gain as U.S. Ports’ Handling Climbs |
American Shipping Shrugs Off Harvey To Deliver Another Record in August |
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Food For Hawks As China’s Exports to U.S. Hit High, Will Soar Higher |
Thursday, September 07, 2017
Intellectual Property Decline Highlights Trump Trade Policy Deficit |
Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Weak Peak Doesn’t Mean Queasy Quarter as Shipping Rates Slip in August |
10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in August |
Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Lego Lags, Last Jedi or Late Shipments Could Save the Year |
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Prince Rupert’s Royal Growth Outclasses SeaTac Ahead of DP World Expansion |
China’s Export Expectations Slow While Import Appetite Accelerates |
Harvey Still Felt in Higher Logistics Fuel Costs, Limited Draft Port Access |
Big Auto 7 Deliver Sixth Month of Japanese Export Growth |
Rebar Case Done After a Year, Builders End Up Paying |
Peña Nieto and Xi May Agree on BRICS, Disagree on Autos |
Pumpkin Spice Needed to Revive Weak August for Coffee After July’s Jolt |
NAFTA Watch: Round 2, Hoping for No Knockout |
Americans Raise More Glasses as Beer Imports Accelerate Into Labor Day |
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Titanium Sponge Imports May Be Squeezed as ITC Case Petitioned |
Bayonne Bounce Absent As New York Growth Matches National Average |
Steel and Auto Worries Cut German Export Outlook |
Hanjin Shipping’s Legacy in 7 Charts |
Frontline Steps Back, Hopes To Leap Ahead in 2018 |
Forestry War Spreads to Newsprint Ahead of NAFTA Talks |
First Chance for Last Jedi Toys May Prove Second Rate, Imports Need A New Hope |
ZIM Zooms, COSCO Climbs as 2Q Rates Recover |
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Capital Goods Imports Rise Fastest in Five Years, Pressuring Trump to Act |
Mexico’s Surplus Slams Into Reverse as U.S. Auto Imports Surge |
Two-way Structure of Xiamen Rail Link to Help Diversify Russia-China Trade |
NAFTA Watch: Lumber Left to Grow as Softwood Decision Delayed |
North Korean Import Limits May Be Next Piece of Sanctions Puzzle |
Hapag-Lloyd Experiences Asian Rate Rise, UASC Benefit |
Harvey’s Container Disruption Extends, LNG Should Be Safe |
Slowing Container Growth In South Korea as Hanjin-versary Approaches |
Monday, August 28, 2017
Houston’s Harvey Closure Disrupts 6,500 TEU Per Day |
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Rooms-to-Go Growth May Go if Chinese Furniture Tariffs Arrive |
Friday, August 25, 2017
Global Trade Hits Another New High, Signs of a Slowdown Emerging |
Hurricane Harvey Havoc Threatens Valero, Exxon as Crude Oil Importers |
Texas Grab’em As Houston Builds China, Europe Handling Share |
CMA-CGM and Hapag-Lloyd Seek to Maintain Brazilian Momentum |
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Brazilian Sugar Beats American Corn as Ethanol Tariffs Weigh |
No Sign of Export Letup as Brits Stay Cheap, French Stay Happy |
China Leaves Door Open to U.S. Trade Talks, Deficit Will Drive Sentiment |
NAFTA Watch: Michigan, Ohio Have Most to Lose From Trump’s “Terminate” Stance |
Odfjell Not Odd as Chemical Tankers Outperform Oil |
Port of Tallinn Share Sale Comes as Volumes Slow |
Japan Finds Chinese Plastic Isn’t Fantastic |
Lenovo’s Growth Reboots After Semiconductor Shortages |
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
NAFTA Watch: Trump’s “Termination” Probably a “Friendly Reminder” |
Commerce Declares Victory as Half of Biodiesel Case Completed |
Options to Extend North Korean Sanctions Limited by Potential Food Shortages |
Puget Sound’s Off As Asian Traffic Heads to Cali |
Brazil Finds Maersk / Hamburg Sud Deal “Complex”, Will Deepen Its Review |
Thai Export Growth Slows, Agricultural and Electrical Risks Rise |
Typhoon Hato Brings Disruption Risks to Flextronics, Gree |
HP’s PCs are OK as Sales Surprise, Imports Rise |
Slow June Heralds Rise of Expensive Phones from Samsung, Apple |
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Higher Fiber Tariffs May Give American and EU Suppliers Indigestion |
MOL Loses Car Shipping Ground to NYK and K-Line as South Korean Fines Bite |
Wire Hanger Enforcement First of Many Duty Evasion Actions by CBP |
Laredo Rail Improvements Face NAFTA Risk, and Opportunity |
Trump’s Terror Strategy Could Target Pakistan’s Trade Surplus |
WTO Back in Favor With Trump Administration When Facing Chinese Food Needs |
Honda Puts a Hole in Manzanillo as Altamira Leads Mexican Port Growth |
8 Numbers That Explain the KORUS Negotiation Failure |
Monday, August 21, 2017
Case Delay Makes Rod for Steel Suppliers’ Backs as Imports Hit New High |
Tool Chest Delay May Not Be Boxing Clever |
Suez Canal Slashes Fees Just As Panama Diversion Effect Slows |
Port Everglades Snaps Up 2M Traffic From Miami |
NAFTA Watch: Disputes To Be Settled Before Agreements Agreed |
Game On as Microsoft Launches Xbox One X Into Videogame Import Renaissance |
Maersk Less Bouncy, More Boxy After Oil Sale Agreed |
Disney Leads Peak Toy Season Kick-Off, Will Trump Be The Grinch? |
Sunday, August 20, 2017
Consultants May Be Losers from 301-Inspired Trade War |
Friday, August 18, 2017
Air Wars Widen as Brazil Takes Canada to WTO, Matches U.S. Case |
LNG Shipping Growth Returns as Qatar Boosts Sales in China |
Lighthizer Lights Up KORUS Talks, Don’t Expect Fireworks |
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Trump’s Infrastructure Order Speeds $38 Billion of LNG Exports |
Surplus Cloud Hangs Over Japanese Export Growth Run |
Chinese Shipbuilding Starts to Slow as Order Drought Continues |
D/S Norden’s The Best of a Bad Bunch |
Second Flange Case Has Precedent, Data Backing But May Hurt Exporters |
Hawkish China Stance Could Target Concentrated U.S. Export Lines |
State Support Sends Shipyards’ Sales Soaring |
Venezuela Loses to Iraq, Could Lose More of U.S. Oil Business |
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Lumber Deal Likely Lost in NAFTA Forest as Imports Chopped |
Boxes Beat Bulk as ‘Boks Handling Leaps |
COSCO Shipping Ports Sets New Record, Beats China Average |
Danish Discipline Means Maersk Grows, Offsets not-Petya’s Blow |
American Arms Trade in Decline Even as Order Books Are Reloaded |
Pharma Fails, Farmers Help As Indian Export Growth Slows |
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Biodiesel Buyers Win as Argentine Exports Rush to Beat Delayed Case |
Russia Export Growth Slowing Even Without American Sanctions |
KORUS Can Stumble on Stats Before It Trips on Terms |
China Container Handling Hits New Record |
Plain Sailing May Be Over for Savannah As EU Imports Slump |
Import Inflation Surpasses Exports for a 12th Month, Deficit Rise Beckons |
Ill Wind of Drug Import Price Deflation Gives Dr. Reddy’s a Cold |
Late Registration, Full Backpacks as Back-to-School Imports Rise 10% in July |
Introducing the Panjiva Sindex of Trade in Alcohol, Tobacco and Weapons |
Monday, August 14, 2017
Train Feeling the Strain as China Rail Reliance Grows |
South Korea Has Little Bearing On U.S. Auto Components as Trade Case Rolls On |
Evergreen Shoots Ahead as Container-Lines Recover |
Singapore Slings Less Oil As Container Trade Condensed |
Hanwha Q-Cells May Face Trump’s Ire in Solar Safeguarding Case |
Trump’s 301 Call is Furious, But Not Fast |
NAFTA Prospects Dim With U.S. Deficit Focus, Canadian Rights Demands |
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Cali Port Boom Masks Export Sag, Oakland Lag |
Friday, August 11, 2017
Europe Wants No Truck With Chinese Tire Exports |
Volumes Melt, Prices Firm as ITC Acts on Polyester Staple Fiber |
China Steel Rusts on EU Decision, But New Customers Will Be Found |
Above-Normal Hurricane Season Can Hurt Containers as Well as Oil |
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Ford May Re-Connect With Customers After Court Cuts Transit Tariff |
No Thanks to the Yanks as British Deficit Widens |
2013 Low For Exports Takes Shine Off Virginia’s New Port News |
Venezuelan Sanctions Creep Wider, Oil May Not Be An Effective Instrument |
Pollution Matters More Than Trump Tariffs for Chinese Steelmakers |
Euronav Repeats Tankers’ Bad-But-Better Pattern |
Philippine Export Slowdown Arrested by PC and Chip Buyers Outside China |
Yang Ming Gets Back to 2015, Tracks K-Line |
AGL Will Face CNOOC and Petrochina When Competing for Australian LNG |
MSC Makes Hay While Hapag-Lloyd Loses Market Share in July |
SCI Applies the Science of Diversification for Revenue Growth |
Wednesday, August 09, 2017
Obama-Era China Aluminum Case Sidelined as Annual Imports Hit New High |
India Makes Fiber as the Trade Case Delay Shines |
Big Boats, Not Bigger Terminals, To Drive Oakland’s Steady Growth |
MISC Shows LNG Strength as Oil Tankers Slide |
A Decade After the Crash in 5 Trade Charts |
Silicon Metal Case Cuts Imports, Doesn’t Deter Australians |
New High for Chinese Foil Shipments to U.S. as Commerce Case Inches Ahead |
Expeditors and CH Robinson in the Driving Seat as NVOCC Volumes Fly in July |
Tuesday, August 08, 2017
Americans Can Pig Out on Mexican Pork |
German Export Slowdown Still Leaves U.S. Surplus 10% Above Recent Lows |
Panama Canal Diversion Effect May Be Played Out One Year On |
Expeditors Leads Forwarders’ 2Q Performance Despite Rate Turbulence |
Trucks’ Monster Mexican Export Month Crushes Cars |
SoCal So Good as U.S. Ports Break 2.3 Million Inbound TEU |
Monday, August 07, 2017
Venezuela’s Mercosur Exit Unlikely to Worsen a Bleak Food Situation |
North Korea Sanctions May Change Little as Billion Dollar Deficit Already Exists |
Chinese PET Unwanted in Japan |
China’s Slowing Trade Doesn’t Prevent U.S. Surplus Rise, or Protectionist Measures |
Drugs and Steel Could “Fix” Taiwan’s Growing Surplus vs. The U.S. |
Imports Break the Bar as Trump Administration Ponders Action |
Sunday, August 06, 2017
Higher Costs for Consumers Coming Down the Soil Pipe |
Brazilian Auto Export Dash Led By Renault, VW Prefers to Sell Locally |
Aramco Aims for PetroChina Refinery to Arrest Crude Oil Import Share Slide |
Toyo-zda Car Factory Could Displace 10% of U.S. Auto Imports from Japan |
Friday, August 04, 2017
Korea Shipping Partnership Provides Scale Solution for Hyundai MM |
COSCO’ Dalian Ports Deal Needs to Address Growth Deficit |
Seasonal Shift or Systemic Slowdown in U.S. Logistics Employment? |
Canada’s Surprise Deficit Provides No NAFTA Comfort |
American Deficit Finally Heads the “Right” Way, Except for China and NAFTA |
Thursday, August 03, 2017
First Signs of an End to Australia’s Export Miracle as Ore Sales Slow |
Teekay Brighter Than Hoped, Outlook Dark For The Tanker Sector |
Adidas’s Sales Sprint Seen in Rapidly Rising Imports |
Teva Tumbles as Price Deflation Catches Up With Imports |
Tastes, not Tariffs Are The Challenge for Scotch Whisky Exports |
Valero Avails Itself of Veracruz Port Capacity |
Loss of Reintegra One of Many Problems for Brazilian Steelmakers |
Evergreen and COSCO Play Catch-up In Brazil as MSC Slips |
6 Big Trade Projects for Trump’s Next 100 Days |
Wednesday, August 02, 2017
DSV Back on The Acquisition Road Again, Targets: China or LatAm Forwarders |
A Dispute Over Dispute Settlement Needs a Settlement to Avoid Sinking NAFTA |
Trump’s 301 Gambit Easy to Execute, Difficult to Implement Without Consumer Pain |
China Trade Deal Won’t Be Built with BRICS |
Global Container Growth Hits 14 Month Growth Streak, Airfreight Soars |
20 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in July |
Tuesday, August 01, 2017
South Korea’s Lowest U.S. Surplus Since 2013 Helpful Before KORUS Talks |
Mexican Trade Success Heighten NAFTA Talks Tension Risk |
American Business Sees Low Tariff Risks from Trump Administration |
Under Armour Plays Defense As Other Brands Attack |
Trade Case Delays May Prove Costly for American Foil, Silicon Metal Producers |
If Softwood Is This Hard, What About NAFTA? |
South Korea’s Container Shipping Surge Subsides |
Unlucky 7 For U.S. Autos as Sales Drop, Imports Surge |
China Sales May Have Given Tesla a Shock in 2Q |
U.S. Port Handling Climbs 9%, Only Puget Sound Volumes Lower |
Mexican Ports’ Handling Surge Propelled by Steel |
Monday, July 31, 2017
K-Line Leads Japanese Shipper Performance as Achieved Rates Rise |
Nippon Express Shows Freight Forwarders’ Revenue Growth is Sustained |
Coffee’s Rush Continues, U.S. Buyers Unconcerned About a Hangover |
Peak Season Rates Show Container Competition Curtailed, Tankers Troubled |
China-Led Export Boom Has More Noise to Make |
Ukraine Coal Deal More Significant for U.S.-Russia Politics Than For Energy Supply |
UPS Global Shipping Offer Comes as U.S. Wine Wanes |
Sunday, July 30, 2017
Flat iPhone Outlook May Be Pessimistic As China Phone Exports Surge |
Half Million TEU Strikes Won’t Return to Cali Until After 2022 |
Nicotine Business Wheezing as U.S. Cigarette, Brazilian Tobacco Exports Drop |
Embargo’s First Month Leaves Car Makers Worse Off Than Qatar Gas |
Friday, July 28, 2017
Orient Overseas Volume Success Raises Regulatory, Profitability Concerns |
Honda Leads Japanese Auto Exports by Going Rogue |
American Stampede Leads Japan to Apply Beef Tariffs |
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Taiwan Trade Talks with U.S. May Focus on Drugs in Tough-to-Cut Deficit |
Deficit Rise Number 8 Includes Weaker Consumer, Need for Capital Goods Promotion |
Coastal Contrasts as SeaTac Slips and Virginia Vaults |
Weak Wheat Harvest After Bumper Exports May Have Long-Term Consequences |
Collar Placed on Steel Flanges After Trade Case Acts as Partial Deterrent |
Trump Faces Venezuelan Conundrum – Cutting Oil Means Cutting Food |
Foxconn Factory Addresses Close-to-Customer Need as Panel Trade Slows |
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Trudeau and Trump NAFTA Comments Risk Transactional Deal |
Peanut Fungus Could Prove Toxic For EU-U.S. Trade Relations |
Daimler, BMW Fear of Trump Dissipates as German Optimism Hits 2011 Highs |
American Farmers Should Drink a Toast to Brazilian Ethanol Tariff Delay |
Getting Wasted Copper Not a Problem, Scrap More So for Chinese Manufacturers |
China Closes Door on Australian Beef, Rounds Up New American Suppliers |
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Nakilat Revenues Inflate While Bahri Skids on Oil Tanker Rates |
2017 May End Up Looking Normal, At Least for The Peak Shipping Season |
Cycles Take a Turn for The Worse |
Cuervo Sales Pitched a Curve Ball as Tequila Exports Slammed |
Dark Clouds Gather in India for Chinese Solar Power Firms |
British Bulldogs Pull At Leash As Export Optimism Hits Four Decade High |
Savannah Follows TexiCali Trends as Container Growth Accelerates |
16 Month Streak in Global Trade Growth Looks Set to Continue |
No Anglo-American “Major Trade Deal” Yet, Global Trade Detail Focus Needed First |
Deficit Hike Number 8 On The Way as U.S. Exports Lag Imports |
Argentina Needs Bean Bounce After Grape Exports Were Crushed |
Monday, July 24, 2017
Wilmington Will Grow Once More With CSX Rail Service |
Australian Gas Limits May Aid Trump’s LNG Export Push |
Trump’s Defense Review May Mean Trade Defenses Needed as Rare Earths Get Rarer |
Specter of EU / U.S. Trade Spat Looms Over Russia Sanctions Bill |
Ross Needs to Find Ways that Mean Significant Action in Steel |
Divis Dives as U.S. FDA Limits Drug Exports |
Sunday, July 23, 2017
Taiwan’s Rebar Bar Won’t Make Much Difference to U.S. Industry |
Fanuc Beats Yaskawa As Industrial Robot War’s Arena Expands |
Friday, July 21, 2017
Border Disputes, TPP Competition Needn’t Derail RCEP Trade Talks |
Unsung Success for U.S. Trade Policy in Access to Growing Chinese Rice Market |
Skechers Could Have Sketchy Start to 3Q After Lower June Imports |
Blue June for New Orders at China’s Shipyards |
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Panamaniacs Return Growth to Charleston Port Handling |
Thai Trade Surprise May Be Washed Out By U.S. Regulatory Disappointment |
70% Surplus Jump Won’t Help Japan’s Case with Pence |
Auto Supply-China Trade Case Won’t Have a Big Bearing on Import Levels |
Comprehensive Dialogue Proved Too Comprehensive, Too Deficit Focussed |
Shipbuilding’s First $10 Billion Month Since 2012 Driven by Korean Finance |
Fox-Lighthizer Talks to Focus on Process, Not Dealmaking |
Trump’s Push for Japanese Auto Market Access Doesn’t Mean They Will Buy |
No Trumpcare, But At Least Imported Drugs Are Getting Cheaper |
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Venezuela Could Rely on China to Offset U.S. Oil Sanctions |
Arcelor Finds New Home for Brazilian Steel as EC Prepares to Flatten It |
Panalpina Breaks Trend of Disappointments, Outlook Upbeat |
Trump at 0.5 – Export Delivery Beginning, Import Action Wanting |
American Buyers Increasingly Prefer “Made Someplace Else” Furniture |
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Malaysia Engages to Avoid Getting Run Over By the Omnibus |
COSCO’s China Port Growth Lags Mainland as Hong Kong Drops Behind |
K+N’s Strong Second Quarter Not Enough to Cheer Management |
NAFTA Deal Could Meet Deficit Test With a One-Off 4% Growth in Exports |
Houston Hits High for Loaded Imports as Panama Plays Out |
COSCO Shipping Energy’s Warning May Already Have Been Heard |
Deflating Inflation Raises Risk of Another Deficit Increase |
Niche Pipe Fittings Make 14th Active Steel Case for ITC |
Trade Case Clouds May Lead Trina to Challenge Sunpower for Mexican Solar Share |
Monday, July 17, 2017
Trump’s Made in America Week Needs Chinese Aluminum, Not Just Steel, Focus |
Thai Acid Shippers May Get Sour Taste from U.S. Dumping Probe |
Mexico’s Miraculous Fiber Return Preempts China-Targeted Trade Case |
CMA-CGM Steps Up in Reefers, Overtakes Maersk in June |
Cali’s Magic 8 Conceals Shrinking Export Handling |
Growth Reboot for PCs As Chromebooks Shine |
Sunday, July 16, 2017
India’s Export Slowdown Needs Modi-Trump ‘Comprehensive Review’ Catalyst |
South African Port Growth Stalls Even As Deepwater Stays Afloat |
Commerce to Crush Olive Imports That Are Already Falling |
LNG Lights Up as U.S. Exports Jump 9x and China’s Purchases Double |
Friday, July 14, 2017
Secondary Sanctions, Primary Problems for China-U.S. Talks |
Autos Not The Only Fruit for Limited KORUS Renegotiation |
Boxes Beat Barrels in Singapore Traffic Handling |
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Oil Independence Distant as Imports Rise Fastest Since 2010 |
Expeditors’ Fightback Begins While Dealmaking Proves No NVOCC Panacea |
China Export Jump Takes Surplus vs. U.S. to October 2015 High |
Yang Ming Capital Raise Would Cut Debt, Suggests Independence |
Top Carriers Tighten Grip on U.S. Market, Even Before Mergers Materialize |
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Oil Sales Hold Key to Food Imports as Venezuela Credit Rating Cut |
Chips Key to Last Push in Xi-Trump 100 Day Successes |
ESB Rubber Case Fails to Deflate U.S. Imports of Tire Ingredient |
Arms Trade Slowing in the U.S., Export Growth a Prospect |
Shanghai Lags Peers As Congestion Bites U.S.-Bound Traffic |
Russia’s Fall into Deficit May Worsen With Trump Policy Action |
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Europe Fails To Corrode Chinese Steel Exports as New Customers Found |
Philippines’ Record Deficit May Prove to Be Fleeting |
NAFTA Strategy Made Real as Mexico Prepares for Argentine Wheat |
Fusion Fused as Ford Falls Behind Fiat’s Mexican Export Growth |
Gothenburg Shut-Out Shows Cost of Port Labor Disputes |
Virus or Habits? Something Has Changed For 2017 Back-to-School Imports |
New York’s Summer of Joy Ahead as U.S. Port Handling Rises for a Fourth Month |
Monday, July 10, 2017
German Trade Boom Set to Continue, Relations With U.S. Could Improve |
G20 Steel Capacity Call Overshadowed by Unilateral U.S. Policy Moves |
Foreign Electricity May Be American Aluminum’s Biggest Problem |
COSCO’s Orient Odyssey Faces Regulatory Challenge, Needs Strategic Clarity |
Taiwan At The Tail-End of Asia as Box Handling Slips |
Canadian Lumber’s Decline Set by Tariff Risk, Wildfire Disruption |
TPP Reboot Offers Japan Access But Faces RCEP, EPA Competition |
Trade Sabre Rattling Likely Drew in More Steel, Autos in June |
Sunday, July 09, 2017
Samsung Struggles to Dial Up Growth as Google’s Pixel Shines |
Maersk Bitten in Brazil by Spain as CMA-CGM Cruises Past |
Friday, July 07, 2017
Sailors and Stevedores Left Behind in U.S. Jobs Boom |
Taiwan’s Hot Chips Bring Surplus To New Record |
Another Rail Notch in the Belt and Road Strategy |
Short Term Political Gain, Long Term Legislative Pain for EU-Japan EPA |
New Record for Global Container Handling as Brazil Lets Side Down |
Thursday, July 06, 2017
Maintenance Cut Panama Canal Traffic, Diversion Trend Still Effective |
Renault Helps Brazil Captur a New Quarterly Record for Auto Exports |
Penultimate Pre-NAFTA Deal Data Shows Surplus Surging in Canada |
Food for Trade Hawks as U.S. Deficit with Mexico and China Grows |
Australia’s Coal-Fired Export Surprise Faces Upcoming LNG Threat |
Tactical Rather Than Technical Motives Apparent in Trade Case Delays |
Wednesday, July 05, 2017
Stolt-Nielsen Improves, No Thanks To The Tanker Market |
5 Most Read Panjiva Research Articles in 2017, So Far |
Metals Should Be on The Trump-Putin Agenda, Not Just Hacking |
North American Airlines’ Ascent Accelerates as Air Beats Sea |
Yildirim Price For CMA-CGM Stake May Be Less Than Container-Line Average |
Chinese Electronics, Autos Could Form Hub of New North Korean Sanctions |
American Steel Bolt, Aluminum Plate Exports At Risk in Metals Trade War |
Never-Ending Fight to Protect EU Seamless Pipe Industry Continues |
American Ethanol Producers Face Second Blow as Brazil Mulls Tax |
Tuesday, July 04, 2017
Qatar’s New LNG Target a Challenge to Trump Administration’s Gas Plans |
Spanish Container Volumes Rocket in May Ahead of June’s Strikes |
Meaty Growth, Speeding Autos To Underpin EU-Japan Trade Deal |
Boeing Makes Bombardier Jet Dispute a NAFTA-Timed Affair |
Hyundai Runs Inventory Risk, While Nissan and BMW Tap U.S. Export Brakes |
Monday, July 03, 2017
Japanese Trade Outlook Brightens, But Lags Global Peers |
20 Most Read Panjiva Research Articles in June |
American Manufacturing Rebound Hopes Driven By Better Export Outlook |
Coffee Exports Get a Shot In The Arm from Indonesian Recovery |
Calm Container Rates Hide Storms Beneath as Bulkers Rule 2Q Performance |
Targeting, Timing of Steel Trade Offensive Remain Uncertain as WTO Looms |
CMA-CGM Heads Out of Port, May Set Sail For More Acquisitions |
KORUS Future Uncertain After Moon-Trump Meet, But Surplus Down 35% |
Friday, June 30, 2017
Trump Acts On $11.7 Billion of Potential Energy Exports |
PoNY Starts to Gallop Ahead of Bayonne Bridge Reopening |
Three Weeks to Start, Years to Finish British-American Trade Deal |
Taiwan Weapons Sales Help Booming U.S. Arms Industry |
Chinese Checkbooks Open As Managers’ Trade Optimism Rises |
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Xi’s $8 Billion Trade Opportunity With Putin |
ONE is First Unconditional Shipping Deal for EC in Two Years |
$10 Billion Ghana-China Bauxite Deal a Threat to Australian Suppliers |
Veracruz Cars, Altamira Metal Drive 11th Growth in Mexican Port Handling |
Third Time May Be The Charm for Chinese Coal Import Restrictions |
Toyota, Suzuki Run U.S. Inventory Build-up Risk as Japanese Exports Climb 9% |
EU and U.S. Hunger for Relaxation of China Food Inspection Rules |
LNG Salesman-in-Chief May Tackle Russia’s Gas Dominance in Europe |
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Tobacco Trade’s Pause for Breath or The First of Its Last Gasps? |
Cerveza and Bier Fill American and Chinese Buckets for Summer Celebrations |
Expanding Deficit Actually A Sign of a Strong U.S. Economy |
FDI Could Form Deutschland’s Initial Smoothing of Way to New TTIP Deal |
BMW Increases Spartanburg Commitment as Auto Imports Slide |
Low-Melt Polyester Fiber Prices Firm as Trade Petition Brought |
CAFTA-DR Labor Appeal Loss for U.S. Shouldn’t Mean Renegotiation |
Moon May Meet Mexican Reception in Trump Meeting |
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Maersk’s Petya Pain Impinges on Terminals, Disruptive Not Transformative |
Trump’s Drug Order May Come as Oncology Bucks Falling Pharma Costs |
Europtimism About Exports Hits 2011 Highs in Germany and France |
Turbo-Charged Mexican Exports May Prove Unhelpful in NAFTA Negotiations |
Nestle Brings Extra Fizz to Perrier as Exports to U.S. Underperform |
Bite Already Taken Out Of Citric Acid Imports Before Commerce Review |
CEVA Shows Rail the Way To Go as China Exports Double |
Modi-Trump Talks Suggest Further LNG Growth to Come |
Resolute FP Bucks Falling Timber Trend as U.S. Applies Duties |
Monday, June 26, 2017
Mexican March of the Robots Advances in May, Could Start to Slow |
July 4 Celebrations Could Go With A Bigger Bang |
Slowing Exports Could Bring Higher U.S. Deficit Ahead of China, NAFTA Deals |
Busan Beats Best as South Korean Shipping Surges |
Ratifying Rather than Agreeing The Main Challenge for EU-Mexico Deal |
$35 Billion of Exports Already in Reach for Trump’s Energy Week |
Steel Tube Producers Gamble on Section 232 Outcome |
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Staple Fiber Price Drop, Import Rise Trigger Trade Investigation |
Bunker Fuel at Nine Month Low as OPEC Worries Reign |
China Seeks to Stop Styrene Import Cup From Overflowing |
The Unusual Case of Spanish Olive Exports |
Vietnam May Get Thrown Under the Omnibus as U.S. Assesses Its Deficit |
Friday, June 23, 2017
LatAm The Only Let-Down as Global Trade Climbs 3% in April |
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Winner from USDA Action Against Brazilian Beef is American Sales to China |
Ikea Looks to Augment the Reality of Growing Imports |
Jinko and Trina Have Much To Gain If China Eggs EGA On |
Slow Start to Back-To-School Imports, But Only June (and July) Will Tell |
Diageo Hopes Clooney Can Continue Tequila’s Trade Transformation |
Tacoma Takes Step Back vs. Seattle As Empty Handling Hits High |
Brits’ Bright Outlook Hits 22 Year High as Brexit Doubts Looms |
Rubber Causes Bounce, Electricals May Short Circuit, Thailand’s Exports |
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Charleston Dances to Its Own Tune as Exports Beat Imports |
$47 Billion At Stake in Trump Meetings With Modi and Moon |
No-NAFTA-Deadline Statement May Be Just Pre-Talk Tactics |
COSCO-Orient Overseas Deal Difficult to Justify |
40th Month of Growth for Network Gear Leaves Ericsson, Huawei Behind |
Wilmington Will Return to Growth With Zim’s Help |
Steel, Cars, Furniture and Wood At Risk in Continued Swedish Strike |
ONE Not Wanted by South Africa, Concerns are Industry-Wide |
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Vietnam’s Apparel Acceleration, Needs More From Adidas, UA and Hanesbrands |
Ford, Tesla Feel the Call of China For Different Reasons |
Plywood Imports Go Against the Grain as Dumping Discovered |
LNG Export Limits From Australia Will Help U.S. Suppliers to China |
Malmstrom Threatens Steel Retaliation as EU Exports to U.S. Recover |
Steel Trade Doctrine of U.S. Faces Turkish Test at WTO |
Special Relationship, But Special Treatment Unlikely in U.S.-U.K. Talks |
Monday, June 19, 2017
South Korea Steers Shipbuilding Recovery, May Run Aground in China |
Lumber Talks Have Long Climb Ahead as Imports Grow To New High |
Weak PC Performance Apparent Below the Surface |
Maersk and MSC Face Routing Challenges as Spanish Strikes Continue |
AGOA Rights At Risk in USTR Recycled Clothing Case |
Steel Bends Japan to Deficit While Balance With U.S. Eases Friction |
Sunday, June 18, 2017
Shipbuilding Slump Continues in China as South Korea Surges |
Finalized Sugar Deal Wasn’t In Doubt, But Still a Cautionary Tale |
BRICS+ Likely to be Security-Centric; Trade Focussed on Commodities |
Farmers Dodge Bullet as Trump Cuban Policy Shift Limited in Scope |
Nucor Wins as Rebar Import Prices Rise, But Builders Lose |
Pegatron Dials Up Growth While Americans Pay Up for Pixel |
Dairy Farmers Ready to Milk the Chinese Market to Extend the 100 Day Deal |
Two Stage Brexit Means Delay for Dealmaking, But Quicker Deal |
Friday, June 16, 2017
COSCO’s Long Beach Shift May Be Operational, Not Environmental In Nature |
Suez Rate Cut Yields Success, More To Come As Panama Matures |
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Foxconn May Put on a Display in Wisconsin as Panel Imports Climb |
Kroger’s Imports Rocket as Sales Grow But Outlook Disappoints |
Executive Order May Prove Double-Edged Scalpel for Generic Pharma Producers |
Nike Just Does It With Kicks Cut as Import Slide Slows |
Maersk Making More Market Share, Skou Says |
Indian Exports to U.S. Accelerate Ahead of Modi-Trump Summit |
U.S. Import Growth Slowing as Prices Start to Fall |
Big China Soy Deal Just in Time for 100 Day Plan Delivery |
Qatar Military Jet Deal a Boon To Shrinking U.S. Arms Exports |
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Ranchers May Carry the Can for Cuba Policy Reversal |
14 U.S. Trade Events for Your Summer (and Beyond) Calendar |
China’s GMO Move Adds Food Choice, May Help U.S. Trade Policy Too |
CMA-CGM’s Purchase From Maersk Good For Everyone’s Strategy |
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Empty Handling Boosts California’s Ports As Less Leaves Oakland |
All Change in U.S. Oil Trade as Valero Beats Chevron, Teekay Bests MISC |
Loaded Magazines Lead Ammunition Imports Down as Background Checks Rise |
COSCO Looks for Further Piraeus Victories with Shanghai Venture |
Shanghai Shines as Chinese Container Handling Hits New High |
Arctic Shipments Blast Russian Port Handling to Highest in Over 2 Years |
Panalpina Expectations May Disappoint Street, But Follows Tough Year So Far |
Trump’s Aluminum Urgency Validated By 37% Export Increase |
Chinese Beef Rule Completion Could Add 12% to U.S. Exports |
Hapag-Lloyd Service Nice to Have, but Not Transformative for PortMiami |
Expeditors Loses U.S. Import Ground to Robinson and DB-Schenker in May |
An Empty Feeling in Virginian Port Handling Growth in May |
Monday, June 12, 2017
Microsoft Hopes X Marks the Spot for Consoles as Imports Already Running Down |
Russian Export Growth Slows, But U.S. Risk Remains With $10 Billion Surplus |
Fewer Jets Streamed In Ahead of U.S. Complaint About Bombardier |
Sunday, June 11, 2017
OPEC Impact of Qatar Move More Important Than Shipping Rate Effect |
Steel Sheet Shoots to South Korea as EU Extends Duties Against China |
Taiwan The Odd One Out After Container Handling Fell in April |
Boks Bounce Back as South African Container Handling Rises |
Bigger Still Better as Alliances Add Market Share in U.S. Container Shipping |
Friday, June 09, 2017
China Supports Philippine Export Growth Even as Chip Shipments Slow |
May May Bring a Further Slowdown in British Export Expansion |
Germany May Be Breaking “Bad” by Not Being as Good |
Remy Cointreau’s Brandy Hopes for China Face Pre-Congress Austerity Risk |
Multi-Party Government May Mean Single Market Deal for U.K. |
Thursday, June 08, 2017
Panama’s Purpose Sinks SeaTac, Serves Savannah Superbly |
Savannah Springs Ahead to New Record, Bodes Ill for U.S. Deficit |
2M Losing Grip, Or Swinging for a New Vine in Brazil? |
Rising Tide as Long Beach Leads Ports To Second Highest Ever Handling |
French Trade Inches Ahead as U.S.-China Dynamic Turns, and Turns Again |
Debbie Damage Doesn’t Destroy Australia’s Export Growth |
Country Hopping Samsung May Land in America |
President Trump Previews Steel Study As Imports Ignite |
Maersk’s TradeFin Offer Based on Lower Debt Than Hapag-Lloyd, CMA-CGM |
Three Out of Four Election Scenarios Mean Brexit Outlook Could Change |
An Inconvenient Truth – China’s Surplus vs. U.S. Is Rising |
Wednesday, June 07, 2017
U.S. Tariff Axes Set To Swing Leads Auto and Steel Imports to Rush In |
27th Straight Month of Container Growth Shows Global Trade’s Strength |
Pemex and Aeromexico May Be Key to Guajardo’s NAFTA Surplus Aim |
Taiwanese Electronics Exports Keep Growing, But Are Slowing |
Could Trump’s Solar Wall Spur Mexican Renewable Energy Spending? |
Tuesday, June 06, 2017
Sugar “Deal” Shows NAFTA Can Be Done, But Year-End May Be Ambitious |
Kia and Compass Kick Mexican Auto Exports Into Overdrive |
Brazil Motors to Another Record, Peugeot and VW Lead |
VW and Daimler to Drive Merkel / Peña-Nieto Talks as NAFTA Looms |
Qatar LNG Cutoff Opportunity For Cheniere Likely Limited |
Apple HomePod Brings Extra Choice to Expanding Speaker System Imports |
Ross Sweetens Sugar Talks With Mexico as Brazil’s China Deal Sours |
Steel and Biodiesel Trade Cases Paused – Waiting for Something Harsher? |
Scent of Thai Dumping in Household Product Ingredients May Be Investigated |
Hyundai Races By Peers, But South Korean Auto Exports May Yet Reverse |
Monday, June 05, 2017
Malaysian Exports Riding High, A Fall Would Make RCEP Look More Attractive |
Brazil’s Coffee Woes Finally Drag Global Exports Down |
Impact of Gulf States’ Qatar Embargo May Depend on Chinese LNG Purchasing |
Canada’s New Export High In Jeopardy Once Energy Flattens, Trees Fall |
Logistics Employment Growth Slowing Down in the U.S. |
China Boosts U.S. Trade Deficit, Ross Shows Patience For Now |
Panama Canal Wants To Go Extra Mile for Carriers As Utilization Rate Stagnates |
Sunday, June 04, 2017
Steel Tube Imports Likely to Be Capped by U.S. as Prime Example of Dumping |
Sanctions Could Cost Venezuela $10 billion, Limit Options for Valero and Chevron |
Friday, June 02, 2017
Spanish Ports’ Growth Doesn’t Have Spain To Thank |
20 Most Read Panjiva Research Articles in May |
Thursday, June 01, 2017
U.S. Loses Patience With Diet of Foreign Staple Fibers |
Jets Stream More Cargo, Adding To Evidence of Continued World Trade Growth |
It’s What You Make, Not How Much as U.S. Imported Car Sales Crash |
American Managers Still Rocking, May Soon Be Rolling |
Not All Trade Surpluses Are Good as U.S. Tobacco Exports Hit High |
Canada in Control of NAFTA Timing As Ross, Guajardo Target Year End |
No Big Deal from U.S-Vietnam Summit, But Vietnam Not Out of the Woods |
Siemens Races Against Wind Impact of Trump’s Paris Decision |
South Korea Left Fighting Last Year’s War Even as U.S. Surplus Slides |
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Slow Container Rate Action in May Could Accelerate in June |
American Steel Finds a Mexican Home in Tampico As Port Volumes Soar |
TTIP “Makes Sense” For Ross, Progress Seems Unlikely in 2017 |
Daimler Plans to Buy American More, But Not Because of Trump |
Whirlpool Hip to Hopping, Asks Commerce for Safeguard Case |
Domestic Led Chinese Growth Bodes Ill For Supplier Nations |
Busan Bump Brings South Korea Shipping Surge |
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Sunny 2017 Seen for Shipping as 1Q Revenues Climb 6% |
New Jet More Relevant to Russia-U.S. Trade Deals Than to Boeing |
Trade Policy Is Not a Game for Toymakers Hasbro and Mattel |
Toyota In The Driving Seat As U.S. Imports of Japanese Autos Return to Growth |
Merkel-Li Trade Talks Likely To Be Big Picture, Not Nitty Gritty |
Shanghai’s Success Causes Problems |
Trump Administration’s First WTO Case Is Solar, China May Lose Out |
Sugar Tax Matters More Than Trump for Cuban Exports |
Monday, May 29, 2017
Wildfires May Have Taken Heat Out of Chile’s Forestry Exports |
Cyclone Mora Brings Potential for Bangladeshi Apparel Supply Disruption |
Nothing Special About New York as Growth Hits 14 Month High |
Sunday, May 28, 2017
“Very Bad” Germany May Be The Wrong Target |
Friday, May 26, 2017
Routes vs. Rates Conundrum for Carriers May Be Set by Congress |
Bunker Far From Busted As OPEC Extends Cuts |
Commerce Chest Beating Hasn’t Deterred Toolbox Exporters Yet |
Chinese Wishlist May Make U.S. LNG and Semiconductor Dreams Come True |
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Tequila and Brandy In, Vodka Out As American Booze Imports Change |
Surprise Mexican Surplus Carries Bad Economic, Good Political News |
Sixth Deficit Jump Shows U.S. Needs Export Promotion, Not Just Import Barriers |
Brazil Looks for Sweet Deal from China as Sugar Exports Fall |
Brexit’s Bite Too Far to Fear For German Managers |
Everglades Glides to Growth as $438 Million Investment Approved |
Steel Producers Win, But Consumers May Lose from Flange Case |
Steel Yourself For Summer Trade Cases as U.S. 232 Review Rolls On |
Hapag-Lloyd Pays 2.1x Sales for UASC, Maersk Paid 0.7x for HamSu |
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Americans Quaff More Foreign Wine While Selling Less Overseas |
NAFTA Trilateral Talks Will Really Be Bilaterals-of-Interest |
Suniva’s Call On Trump Gets A Hearing After Import Values Collapse |
Global Trade Grows Fastest Since April 2011, More of the Same Possible |
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
New Zealand Keeps Milking China for Growth Ahead of New Trade Deal |
Clean Teeth and Automakers’ Supplies at Risk From World Trade Bridge Disruption |
Uncertain Times for Beer as Constellation Faces NAFTA, BAT Changes |
Venezuela’s Food Imports Fall as Trade Surplus Jumps Above $1.2 billion |
Daimler’s Electric Vehicle Challenge is Lithium, Not Lithium Ion Batteries |
CMA-CGM’s Aztec Return Brings Ocean-2M Alliance Link |
Steel Review Starts After U.S. Imports Fell, But Just In Time For Next Rise |
RCEP Heading For Swift Conclusion, If China Assuages India’s Concerns |
Ningbo Follows Hong Kong In Finding Growth Outside Trans-Pacific Routes |
France Takes An Optimistic Pause For Breath in May |
Monday, May 22, 2017
Cheaper Drugs May Be Key To Revised Israel-U.S. Trade Deal |
Agriculture Aggravations Avoided in Canada-Mexico NAFTA Talks |
Savannah Growth Outstrips Norfolk In First Month of ECGTA Operation |
Thailand Cooks Up a Storm, Just Not as Windy as Hoped |
Policy Acceleration Possible If U.S. Deficit Makes It Six In A Row |
Expeditious Expedition for TPP to Reach Destination |
Vietnam’s Export Growth Hopes Carry Seeds of U.S. Tariff Attention |
Brazilian Sugar Wave May Swamp Other Shores as China Hikes Tariffs |
Sunday, May 21, 2017
$9 billion Month for Shipbuilding May Be Sign That Refinancing Works |
Japan’s Trade Heads in The “Right” Direction, From a U.S. Perspective |
Dorel and Ikea Hope For Bumper Spring as Imports Outstrip Sales |
CMA-CGM Falls Behind Containerlines as Industry Expands 6% in 1Q |
Fewer Alaska Calls Make For Quieter Puget Sound |
Friday, May 19, 2017
Stihl Chops Into An Expanding U.S. Powertool Market |
Jets May Be a Soar Point in Canada-U.S. Relations Ahead of NAFTA |
Lots of Wood to Chop If Lumber Deal to Beat NAFTA Start |
Volvo and Outokumpu Face Gothenburg Port Strike Risks |
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Adidas and Skecher’s Put a Spring in Imports’ Step |
138 Days to Negotiate NAFTA, Maybe No Impact Before February 2019 |
China Charges Charleston’s Traffic Growth |
Nearly NAFTA Negotiation Time, Peso-Watch On The Table |
H&M and PVH Most Exposed to Bangladesh Sustainability Compact |
Korea Move Unlikely for U.S. LNG, China Displacement Possible |
China Coal Curbs Coming, North Korea Cuts Insufficient For 10% Target |
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Teekay Okay On Long Haul, Recovery Will Be A Long Haul |
A New Disruption for Ford as Spanish Port Workers’ Strikes Are Back |
Nintendo Switches on Sales, Struggles With Imports |
Siemens Gearboxes Could Outpace Hanwha Panels as Renewables Stabilize |
COSCO Capital Needs May Be Behind Cryptic Comment |
Hyundai MM Doing Better, But Still a Long Financial Road Ahead |
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Turkish Steelmakers Have No Fear of U.S. Rebar Duties |
G7 May Bear Brunt of Trump’s Trade Ire In First Overseas Trip |
Phone Importers Dial Up Expensive Handsets As Taiwan Pixel-ates |
Epson On It As Printer Imports Hint At Recovery |
U.S. LNG Opportunity as Gor-Gone For A Month |
Single Shots Only As Vietnamese Coffee Stockpiles Wane |
ADM and Tate & Lyle May Urge Restraint to Ross on Sugar Deal |
Boxes Beat Tanks as Singapore Handling Inches Ahead |
ECJ Makes Brexit Even More Complex With 22 Months To Go |
Monday, May 15, 2017
Trade Case Fails to Chip Away At Silicon Metal as Decision Delayed |
Belt-and-Road Needs More Than Just Tariff Cuts to Deliver for China |
Desktops Make a Comeback as Laptops Head Upmarket |
30 Month High for Indian Deficit Has Oily Source |
Abe Wants TPP By Year End as Big 4 Deals Progress |
Asia the Key to Hong Kong Container Growth as COSCO Recovers |
EU Forces China to Pipe Down, Though Steelmakers Have Bigger Problems |
New Depths Plumbed as China’s Shipbuilders Lose Share to Korea’s |
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Cheaper Chinese Staples Boxed in By Competitors |
Saudi Oil Growth Dominates in March, Shifting Motiva-tions in April |
A Wealth of Common Drivers for Virginia’s Container Handling Growth |
Friday, May 12, 2017
Wan Hai Struggles to Make Progress as Containerlines Sail On |
Tsakos Strikes Upbeat Tone as Revenues Rebound |
California Checks In More Cargoes, But It Sees Fewer Leave |
Lighting the NAFTA Path After Lighthizer Approved |
$2.4 billion Extra U.S. Exports Possible from New China Beef-and-LNG Deal |
Spanish Rod Rush Precedes Steel Wire Case |
Hapag Lloyd Outpaces Maersk Despite Slower Rate Development |
Thursday, May 11, 2017
South African Port Growth Falters as Exports Reverse |
Odfjell Inches Ahead Before Rates Begin to Fall |
Robinson and DHL Outpace Expeditors as NVOCCs Head Forward in April |
10 Billion Reasons for Putin and Trump To Talk Trade |
U.K. Exports Hit New High, But Following Winds May Subside |
Philippine Export Computations Show China Matters Most |
Commerce To Give Cold-Drawn Steel Tubes the Cold Shoulder |
Maersk The Fastest Growing Liner Even If Drilling Drilled a Hole in Sales |
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Drug Imports Drop as American Health Care Act Uncertainties Reign |
Top 20 Shippers’ Share Nears 65% on U.S. Inbound Routes |
7th Rise in Imports Ahead As Energy Fuels U.S. Prices |
ABB Leads as Rise of the Machines Reaches New High |
McCain May Hold Keys To NAFTA Progress That Mexico Needs |
Ross-Wang 100 Day Meeting Part of Planning, Not a Planned Party |
French Export Boom Helped By Italian Painters, Hindered by China |
Tuesday, May 09, 2017
Beretta and Glock Imports Load-up as SCOTUS View Awaited |
MSC Slips, But Future Shape of Shipper Market Share in Brazil Set |
SeaTac and NOLA Left Behind In Bumper Month for Ports |
Gener8 Rates Escalate |
Forwarders Fly as Nippon Express Expresses Growth Hopes |
232 Reviews Roll On, Malaysia Has Most To Lose If Semiconductors Investigated |
Mexico-EU Deal Could Be Signed This Year, Ratification Uncertain |
RCEP Nearer Conclusion, If China Still Cares |
German Trade Jumps But U.S. Friction May Fall |
Monday, May 08, 2017
Fiat Chrysler, Ford Accelerate Mexican Auto Exports |
Taiwan’s Export Spurt Continues as Long as Chinese Imports Stay Strong |
Tariff Race Back On, Making American Imports Great Again |
Trudeau’s Coal Investigation Just a NAFTA Skirmish, Not a Full Battle |
Panamania Subsides as Extended Disruption Planned |
Kia And Hyundai Pull Away from GM as South Korean Auto Exports Grow |
Long-Awaited Cut in Cut-to-Length Steel Imports Made |
Xi’s Got 100 Day Problems As U.S. Surplus Jumps 18% |
Sunday, May 07, 2017
Mitsui’s Pipes, Ford’s Parts Boost Mexican Ports’ Handling |
Brazil Sees Kombi-nation of Strong Auto Exports, Weak Local Sales |
Port Employment Left Behind Despite Jump in Handling Activity |
Friday, May 05, 2017
Alliances’ Antitrust Allowance Takes Step Towards Annulment |
Chinese Apples Face Crunch Time as India Blocks Imports |
C919 Jet Helps China Trade Negotiations, A Little Bit |
Falling Oil, Downbeat Chinese Managers May Slow Malaysia’s Export Miracle |
MISC Betters Tankers, But Not Because of Tankers |
OPEC Absence Drowns Tanker Rates As Oil Price Sinks |
Thursday, May 04, 2017
Cinco de Mayo Shippers Need NAFTA Diversification for Future Parties |
Canada’s Export Miracle Is Actually An Energy Miracle |
Deficit Fuel for Trump’s Fire Despite Bankers’ Hard Work |
Global Ports’ 10% Expansion in March Shows World Trade Alive and Kicking |
Does Ross Want NAFTA 2.0 To Be Bilateral TPPs? |
Wednesday, May 03, 2017
Commerce May Tool Up to Tackle Chinese Chest Exports |
Bahri Beats Peers As Tanker Rates Rally |
Debbie Disruption Looms Over Australian Export Boom |
Will Luke’s Return Bring the Force Back to Star Wars Imports? |
Busan’s Bounty Bested by Singapore and China |
Protectionism Yet To Be Felt As Global Air Traffic Achieves Liftoff |
Brazil’s Robusta Shortage No Block to Rising Global Coffee Exports |
New York Set to Go Larger, Earlier After Port Volumes Stall |
Brazil’s Cars and Planes Offset March’s Meat Scandal |
Today’s Imports Are Tomorrow’s Discounts As Auto Sales Slump |
3J Not Hanging Around As FMC Blocks Early Move |
D/S Norden Bucks A Bad Trend Among Tankers With Baltic Bonanza |
Tuesday, May 02, 2017
Expeditors and DSV Head Forward, Leaving Panalpina the Odd One Out |
20 Most Read Panjiva Research Articles in April |
Export Explosion Expected as ISM Reaches Five Year High |
Mexican Sugar Could Parallel Canadian Lumber as NAFTA Skirmish |
Trump’s New Order Overlaps But Extends the Omnibus Review |
Suppliers to China Beware – Import Optimism is Falling |
South Korea Data is Good News for Deal Negotiators, Bad for Shippers |
Monday, May 01, 2017
Container Rates Rise on Routes Less Travelled |
Sunday, April 30, 2017
KORUS Cancellation Would Hurt Aerospace Engineers and Farmers |
GoPro Inches Ahead After Flying in March |
Friday, April 28, 2017
COSCO Shipping Beats Orient Overseas, But Far From Being the Best |
Maersk Gets Hamburg Sud for Two Thirds of Revenue |
K-Line Lags Mitsui-OSK As Container-Line Revenues March On |
Thursday, April 27, 2017
China Export Bonanza for New Zealand Might Not Last |
Mexican Trade Surplus Evaporates As Electronics Imports Soar |
Aluminum Security Threat Assessment Simple, Execution Complex |
Argentina Could Sour Mexican Lemon Exports |
Engineers Need Presidential Help as U.S. Deficit Jumps 15% |
Japanese Auto Export Joy Not Shared by U.S. Buyers |
Trump Takes Long View With Non-Nuclear NAFTA |
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
New York Blown Away as Port Handling Drops |
Suniva Seeks Presidential Help To Avoid Import-Inspired Bankruptcy |
Frontline Back To Its Offer, Still Wants Youth and Scale from DHT |
Hanjin Hangover Hurts Seaspan Still |
12 Tasks for President Trump’s Next 100 Days |
Widodo Puts Indonesia’s Head In The U.S. Trade Lion’s Mouth |
Euronav Steers Cautious Course But Matches Tankers’ Sales Disappointments |
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Auto Optimism Slump Drags on German Order Outlook |
Japan Needs American Potatoes After Harvest is Mashed |
Global Trade Expansion Continues to Run, Could Sprint |
Macron-Mania As Export Hopes Hit June 2011 High |
Malmstrom and Ross Open TTIP Door But Local Elections Matter More |
Ross Swings the Axe Rather Than Burying The Hatchet |
Monday, April 24, 2017
China Starts to Make Good On Its Steel Promises |
Brazil Needs New Markets as China Sours on Sugar Imports |
Nakilat May Prove Best of a Bad Bunch as Revenues Steam Ahead |
Thai Presence in American Kitchens Expands as Exports Boil Over |
Success Breeds Optimism as British Managers’ Hopes Surge |
China Yet to Be Foiled as Brazil Paints a Silicon Target |
Bad Luck Britain – You’re Not Bad Enough To Get a Deal |
Sunday, April 23, 2017
Panama Canal Interruption a Fleeting Comfort for Suez |
A Tricky Balance for Trade As Economists Expect Expansion |
Charleston Dances to Another Handling Record |
Sweeter Puget Sounds As Tacoma’s Asian Handling Accelerates |
Shipbuilding’s Green Shoots in March Really a Korean Phenomenon |
Friday, April 21, 2017
Stricter EU Line Delays, But Doesn’t Change, Brexit Trade Deal Prospects |
Mobile Gets Moving as THE Alliance Pays a Call |
Spain Still Has Growth Energy But Is Wearing Out In Autos and Paper |
Panalpina’s Miss Is A Hit, Brings Doubts for DSV, Expeditors |
Mnuchin Hints at Tax Timing, But Will The BAT Swing? |
Thursday, April 20, 2017
232 Sooner Than 1/15, Brazil and Russia Could Be Targeted by Ross |
Ericsson’s Networking Not Working for Imports, Yet |
Japan’s TPP 2.0 Push Will Complicate RCEP 1.0 |
K+N Sets High Hurdle for Freight Forwarder Revenues |
Seventh Dumping Accusation Targets German Tube Shipments |
Trump’s 360 Day Assault on Steel Imports Could Target Russia |
Bear Bankruptcy, Russian Ferrovanadium Charge Add to Metals Case Pressure |
Another Kick Of The Wooden Can, For NAFTA’s Sake |
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Asia Lifts Japanese Trade Growth as U.S.-Bound Autoparts Drag |
Gust of Wind Power Imports Despite Trump’s Clean Power Roll-Back |
Daewoo Shipbuilding Complaints Continue, No WTO Move Yet |
La Dolce Vita Close To An End for Italian Exports |
Russian Rod Not Yet Beaten As Commerce Pursues Steel Case |
Chinese Exporters Fail To Be Floored by Commerce Decision |
Risk Rises for NAFTA Talks Without TPA |
Aso May Not Accommodate Pence’s Push As Asia Matters More |
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Savannah Looking Plain as Handling Growth Slows |
7% Surge Seen for Shipping Revenues in 1Q 2017 |
Brexit’s Too Easy, Let’s Have An Election Too |
COSCO Ports Falls Behind Mainland, Looks to OBOR For Growth |
Trump’s Paris Decision Could Determine LNG Exports’ Fate |
HP CEO Worries About BAT, Most Reliant on Chinese Screens, Singaporean Printers |
Pence’s KORUS Concerns Could Draw 10x Investment Initiative |
Monday, April 17, 2017
Did the European Commission Help Boost Shipping Rates? |
Chinese Shipbuilding Orders Accelerate, But Still Taking On Water |
Currency Manipulation Finds No Guilt, Picks Wrong Targets |
Friday, April 14, 2017
Billion Dollar Chance for Trump Administration to Prove Trade Sovereignty |
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Biodiesel Buys Begin to Decline as ITC Takes Up Case |
Nintendo Imports Switched On |
China Calls for IP Rule Relaxation As Part of 100 Day Plan |
Dell Dull, Lenovo Light-Hearted as PC Imports Have Tough Quarter |
Cali Ports’ Performance Heralds Higher Trade Deficit Nationally |
Currency and Cars to Face Investment and Options in Pence-Aso Talks |
Indian Deficit’s Oil Explosion Masks Strong Underlying Trade |
Renault, PSA Given Colombian Auto Opportunity |
Mnuchin’s Spotlight Still Shines as Trump Dismisses China Manipulation |
Singapore Port Handling Returns to Growth But Lags China |
Shanghai’s Surprise as Chinese Container Handling Hits High |
Chinese Export Party May Leave Xi With U.S. Surplus Headache |
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Sixth The First Consumer Test for U.S. Commerce Resolve on Trade Cases |
Tsakos and Tesoro Oil Outliers as U.S. Independence Steps Closer |
Taiwan Hits Second Spot in Asia Container Growth Ranking |
5 Year High For Import Inflation May Spur Deficit Jump |
WTO Becomes Less Certain By Becoming More Optimistic |
Seeds of Gymboree Failure Lay in Port Strikes |
Myanmar Pipe Helps China Diversify Oil as Brazil Rises, Iran Falls |
First Sign of Ross’s Robust Commerce Coming Down the Pipes |
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Lumber Leaps as Canadians Await Commerce Case |
Plenty of Little Wins To Aim For In EU-Mexico Trade Talks |
U.S. Weapons Imports Rise, Ammunition Slows Ahead of Gun Rights Cases |
Schenker Shoots Ahead In NVOCC Rankings |
Window for NAFTA Narrows If Lighthizer Is To Lead |
Philippine Export Growth Disappoints Even As China Sales Soar |
Volvo Echoes GM’s BAT Comments As XC SUV Imports Climb |
Can Tacoma Tackle Maersk’s Alaska-Driven Move? |
Norfolk Growth Not New Port News as Tie-Up Approved |
Maersk Clears EC Hurdle By Cutting LatAm Routes |
Monday, April 10, 2017
Consolidation Marches On Top 20 Shippers Grab 63% of U.S. Market |
3J Leaps Brazilian Barrier, U.S. Ports The Big Remaining Challenge |
Taiwan’s Export Growth Relies on Chips for Now, Lighthizer for Later |
Turnbull Needs Modi to Diversify Australia’s China Energy Reliance |
Maersk Trims Cabotage, International Share Intact After CADE Approval |
COSCO Commentary Adds Credibility to Consensus Calculations |
Trump-Xi Sets Foundations, Rapid Construction to Begin |
Panama Canal Effect Now Fully Shipped |
Sunday, April 09, 2017
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs (But Not for Port Workers) |
Friday, April 07, 2017
Long Beach Beats the Blues and Overtakes New York |
Mexican Auto Exports Reach New High as NAFTA Talks Awaited |
Great British Exports Beat Europe, Face American Slowdown |
Macronomix, Not Frexit Needed as Exports Dip |
German Trade Growth Let Down by Europe, Boosted by U.S. and China |
Xi’s Auto Offer Follows Chinese Appetite for American BMWs and Teslas |
Thursday, April 06, 2017
Holidays or Hang-Ups? U.S. Phone Imports Slump in February |
Brazilian Auto Exports Make Like Ayrton As New Record Set |
Unlucky Mr. President, Americans Are Buying More Overseas |
Did Kia Overestimate U.S. Sales for March? |
Pacific Basin Highlights Need for Bulker Ordering Discipline |
Deal on Rice Would Be Nice for Mexico and Brazil |
Chinese Steel Rolls Out of Europe, Into Vietnam |
Stolt-Nielsen Disappointment Shows Difficulty of Turning a Tanker |
Wednesday, April 05, 2017
A Battle for the Existence of Alliances, or Just Posturing? |
Supply Chain Opportunities for Kate Spade If Hitched to Coach |
Climbing Airfreight Utilization Raises Aerospace Trade Deal Stakes for Trump |
Payless Failure Foreshadowed By Imports, But Difficult to Trace Exposures |
Malaysian Export Record Driven By Energy, Helped By Chips |
Tanker Tankan Tanks as Overall Export Outlook Brightens |
European Shipping Crunch Brings Supply Chain Risk for BMW and Wyeth |
Tuesday, April 04, 2017
Maersk Market Share Cut Needed As Brazil’s Top 10 Break 90% |
Passed “Peak China”? U.S. Deficit Dips After China Trade Shrinks |
Canada Eats and Drinks Its Way to a Deficit As Energy Saves the Day, Again |
Xi Looks For Finnish Trade Opportunities as EU Battle Starts |
WTO Trade Disputes Get Even MES-ier |
Commerce Case Doesn’t Cause Korean Phos-Copper Collapse |
Australian Export Boom May Run Into Cyclone, Sentiment Challenges |
Could Hyundai Head Higher After U.S. Auto Sales Disappoint? |
Monday, April 03, 2017
Brazil’s Record Defies Sliced Meat, Cold Coffee But Relies on Oil |
U.S. Export Orders Rocket, Joining Global Gains Despite Policy Uncertainty |
Breathing or Gasping? Container Rates Slide as Bulkers Fly in March |
U.S. Staple-Maker Wants China to Pack It In |
Turkey Switches Off Chinese Solar Exports |
South Korean Data Reduces Currency Accusation Risks |
Cyclone-Hit Tracks Will Disrupt Japan, China Coal Exports |
Trump’s Cudgel or Xi’s Scalpel? Bringing Trade Policy Into the North Korea Issue |
Saturday, April 01, 2017
25 Most Read Panjiva Research Articles in March |
Shipping Revenues Accelerate in 4Q, Even More Expected in 1Q |
Friday, March 31, 2017
Trump’s Cherry-Picking Spreadsheets Run Risk of Ad-Hoc Retaliation |
Bigger Doesn’t Mean Better as Busan Loses Out to Smaller Ports |
COSCO Shipping Surprises With Strong Asian Rates |
China’s Managers Party Like It’s 2012, Will Xi and Trump Take the Punchbowl Away? |
Uniqlo Unique In Threatening To Quit U.S. On BAT Plans |
Thursday, March 30, 2017
With 2 of 13 Months Left in Steel Case, Korea Already Back In Market |
The Secret of Good Trade Negotiations Timing Is |
U.S. and Brazil Putin a Difficult Spot By Sino-Russian Seeds Deal |
NAFTAmnesty? Trump Draft May Avoid New Deficits Rather Than Cure Old Ones |
March Madness for Japanese Autos After February Fillip For Exports |
North Korea Oil Sanctions Planned, May Already Be Happening |
Lululemon Squeezed As Imports Drop in “Slow Start” to 2017 |
New Administration, Old Schedule So Far for Ross’s First Two Trade Cases |
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
It’s Up to New York to Boost Its Handling Growth |
Food Feeds Veracruz’s Leadership of Mexican Port Growth |
Coal To Play Offense In Trump’s Energy Export Gameplan |
Will Steel Wire Case Be The First That Secretary Ross Accelerates? |
Automakers Push German Export Optimism to January 2014 High |
Debbie Devastation May Cut China-Bound Iron and Energy Exports |
2M-HMM Cooperation Not The Same As Collaboration, FMC Points Out |
Ready, Steady, Wait for Post-Brexit Trade Deal as Divorce Takes Precedence |
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Brazil’s Meat Crisis Abates After EU And Hong Kong Slice Restrictions |
Trump’s First Deficit Drops, But Ross’s NAFTA Review is AWOL |
Mexican Cucumbers Highlight the Risks From a Hawkish NAFTA Stance |
Cowboys Want Trump To Ride Into China, May Be Bucked in Trade Deals |
Big Easy Has Big Challenges as Container Volumes Slide |
3J Clears Singapore Hurdle, FMC May Be A Barrier |
Monday, March 27, 2017
Venezuela Generates $850 million Surplus, Struggles for Food |
Is Mexico’s Surprise Surplus a Portent of Export Reversal to Come? |
TrumpCare Uncertainties Lead Generic Drugs to Stay Away |
New Zealand Ready to Diversify China Trade, RCEP Talks Are A Hurdle |
China Jet Readiness Puts 14% of U.S.-China Exports At Risk |
Brazilian Bags Drag as U.S. Coffee Buyers May Be Stockpiling |
Samsung S8 Shipment Surge to Follow 39% Vietnam-to-U.S. Vault |
Hapag-Lloyd 2% Achieved Rate Rise Lags 25% Market Gain, For Now |
Sunday, March 26, 2017
World Trade Growth Accelerates, Maybe More to Come in February |
Friday, March 24, 2017
Slowing Shipments Could Depress Trump’s First Deficit |
Ross and Lighthizer May Have Steel Excuse as Japan’s Worries Surface |
Kids and Adults Love Them So, There’s a U.S. Factory Coming For Haribo |
Dupont Brings Refrigerant From Mexico as Chinese Competitors Left in The Cold |
Biodiesel Bounce Draws Anti-Dumping Allegations |
Missed Platform Explains NZ Trade Dip, Ozzie Agriculture the Real Game |
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Savannah’s Growth Still Peachy, Outlook Fuzzy |
Arms, Aerospace, Agriculture and Tech Hold Keys to Lighthizer’s Taiwan Aims |
Mobile Port to Get Moving As Wal-Mart Sets-Up Shop |
Is Li Offering Australia Agricultural Access for Property Purchases? |
British Managers Buoyant Before Brexit, French Frown |
Brazil Meat Exports Butchered as Corruption Crisis Continues |
Puget Sound Slips as Seattle Surrenders Chinese Share |
Compass Treats Itself to Market Share as Chinese Imports Stoppered |
Maersk Gets Tyra Tax Break, Can Move On With Oil Demerger |
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Shipbuilding Has Its Worst Month Since 2008 as Daewoo Reaches for Lifeline |
RCEP Won’t be TPP v2 – Simplicity Wanted by Negotiators |
Have Reduced Trump Tariff Risk Perceptions Lead Ikea to Cut Imports? |
Could Maersk’s Concessions for Hamburg Sud Include Brazil? |
Nike Sales Outlook Disappoints, Imports Open New Quarter Lower |
Thai Exports Drop Despite Samsung Dishwasher Strategy |
Japanese Trade Nears Deals with China and EU But Could Reach Conflict with U.S. |
Will the Box Club Be Clubbed by the Department of Justice? |
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Rise of the Robots Continues as U.S. Imports Climb for a Seventh Month |
U.S. LNG Exports Jump as Global Demand Inflates |
SM Group Wants to Go Large, But Options Are Limited |
Elections Will Shift 53% of Brexit Trade Goalposts by 2019 |
Peruvian Floods Put Copper, Zinc Exports at Risk |
Spanish Imports Grow at Fastest for 6 Years, More to Come |
39% of U.S. Trade is Up for Review as Trump Nears Executive Order |
Monday, March 20, 2017
AET Builds Share in U.S. Oil Handling As MISC Frets About Market |
Little Sign of Sunrise for Solar, Except for Hanwha |
ZIM Looks for Zip in Its Market Share By Adding Carolinas |
Li Wants An Australian Deal For Assets and RCEP, Not Exports |
DP World Caution After Slow Quarter Precedes Reality of Protectionism |
Mnuchin’s Hawkishness More Worrying Than G20 Communique Language |
Brazilian Beef Controversy Could Put New Deals at Risk |
No TTIP v2 – Trump and Merkel Have Other Deals to Handle |
Hapag-Lloyd Inches Towards UASC, Blaming Paperwork for Slow Progress |
Friday, March 17, 2017
Mexico Bares Agricultural Teeth Before NAFTA Talks |
Fiat-Chrysler’s Mexican Factories the Secret to Further Italian Export Growth |
Squeeze Reprieve for Mexican Lemons as Argentina Waits |
China Shipbuilding Orders Sink to New Depth |
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Dell Does Well in U.S. PC Imports, But Acer is Ace-r |
Northwest Let Down by The Sea Side as Panjiva Combined Cargo Index Drops |
Emptiness the Secret of Charleston’s Happiness |
Quanta Reboots Chinese PC Export Growth |
Nokia Downbeat on Phone Kit, But Could Ericsson Dial Up a Surprise? |
Navarro’s Powerhouse, Trump’s CAFE May Mean Less Disruption for Automakers |
Chile Wrap Has Little Flavor of Future Trade Deal Prospects |
GoPro’s Growth Prediction Soars Above Import Evidence |
Techtronic Tools Up for U.S. Production After Exports Hit High |
Hyundai MM Brings Korea, Thailand and Indonesia to 2M |
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
U.S. Keeps Door Shut to Chinese Magnesium, Which Heads to Canada |
iPhone Imports Likely Jumped in January as Samsung, Google Lagged |
Lighthizer Wants to Promote Ags Exports, May Be Forced to Play Defense |
India’s Export Boom May Be Oil-Fired as U.S. Shipments Slowed |
Foxconn Flies, Huawei Higher as Chinese Smartphone Exports Climb |
China Doesn’t Want a U.S. Trade War – It Has Too Much Else To Do |
Hong Kong’s High Kicking Growth Beats COSCO Pacific’s Sluggish Yangtze |
Maersk Yet to Announce HamSu Financials, Regulatory Hurdles Remain High |
Long Beach Beats LA, While California Tariff-Driven Import Boom Slows |
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Nintendo Fails to Switch On the Videogame Market |
Virginia Slips as Brazil, Singapore Container Handling Slides |
Singapore Port Container Handling Slides, Bucks U.S. Shipment Trends |
3J Efficiency Plans Emerging, Costs Already Falling |
Will Mnuchin Use the G20 As a Currency Manipulation Campaign Kick-off? |
China Port Growth Confirms Tariff Pre-emption Strategy |
Monday, March 13, 2017
China May Not Grab TPP in Chile, But It Does Need to Address NAFTA 2.0 |
Is Lego’s Import Growth as Simple as Black and Gray? |
Has the U.S. Ammunition Import Craze Started to Subside? |
Expeditors Loses U.S. NVOCC Share to Danmar, DSV as Competition Hots Up |
Nunes’s Trade Opportunities Could Add 3% to Brazil’s Exports in 18 Months |
May’s Finger on the Brexit Start Gun as British Trade Booms |
NAFasTA Deal Making? |
Orient Overseas Flags Shipping Industry’s Balancing Act Risk |
Are Bulk Shipping Rates Defying Gravity? |
Friday, March 10, 2017
CMA-CGM Revenues Expand a Little, Will It Buy More? |
Logistics Jobs Shift From Warehouses to Wheels |
Ferroglobe Petition May Mean Foreign Companies Benefit from U.S. Case |
Faster Foil Findings May Be Result of U.S. Aluminum Case |
British Exports’ Fastest Surge Since 2011 Face Brexit and U.S. Hurdles |
German Export Jump May Make Merkel’s Meeting Messy |
Thursday, March 09, 2017
Apparel Brings Blowout Philippine Exports, Future Less Certain |
Suez Swamped by Shippers’ Panama Push |
Merkel-Trump Meeting Could Make Dark Clouds Disappear |
The Big Get Bigger as U.S. Carrier Share Consolidates Further in February |
Higher Prices Might Not Thwart Trump’s Desired Deficit Dip |
Busan Losing Share to Peers in South Korea Container Handling |
Vietnam Warns of Slow RCEP Progress, May Hold Sway Over China |
Ross-Joo Meeting May Be The Reality of U.S. Trade Dealings |
Wednesday, March 08, 2017
Maersk Needs Tyra Answer Before Addressing HamSu Finance Questions |
Sales Success, Tariff Risk Drives Wanfeng Auto’s U.S. Spending Plan |
Did Wilbur Ross Punt NAFTA 2.0 Into 2018? |
Port of LA Experiences First Drop Since June While Philadelphia Flies |
RCEP “At An Early Date” A Far From Simple Deal |
Brazil’s Auto Exports Jump, For the Wrong Reasons |
Downturn Ahead, or Just Turbulence in French Exports? |
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
China Exports Weak At First Glance, Stronger on Examination |
Trump Rush Effect Wanes in February as U.S. Shipments Slow |
Well Oiled Canadians Face Drug and Car Slowdown |
5 Year High For U.S. Deficit Adds Impetus But Can’t Accelerate New Trade Deals |
South Korean Trade Dispute with China Likely to Remain Low Key |
China Chips Mean More Than Trump for Taiwan Trade |
Mexican Sugar Exporters Look Elsewhere as U.S. Investigation Delayed |
Navarro Calls Out Samsung, LG For Trying to Maximize Profits |
Monday, March 06, 2017
Ford Loses Fusion Power in Mexican Exports While Chrysler Journeys On |
CMA-CGM Could Consider Deals as Brazilian Consolidation Continues |
Shipbuilding Rebound Likely To Be a Holiday Effect |
Heavier Laden Jets Face Protectionist Storm on the Horizon |
Will Ross Use Stainless Steel to Strip Failure from Trade Case Record? |
Will Discipline Hold as Hyundai MM Gets the Money It’s Been Promised? |
China Looks For Steel Export Leadership with 5% Cut in Production |
Cardenas About To Play Best Cards as Maersk Terminal Opens |
Bird Flu Opportunity Becomes Risk for U.S. Farmers |
Sunday, March 05, 2017
General Motors Has Supply Chain Issues to Address After PSA Deal |
Trump Cap Yet to Arrive as Panjiva Combined Cargo Index Advances 7% |
Friday, March 03, 2017
Miami Misses but Savannah Succeeds in Boosting South East PCCI |
Malaysia’s Export Acceleration Depends on China’s Success |
Ford, DAK May Face Spanish Port Strike Risk |
Thursday, March 02, 2017
Rapid Commodity Rebound Boosts Brazil’s China Business |
Adidas Sourcing Teardown Reveals Shoes From 27 Countries, T-Shirts from 30 |
Boeing Wants ExIm But Trade Deal Exposure Matters More |
Rebar Investigation Fails to Demolish Imports |
30% Growth Opportunity For Trina, Hanwha Q-Cells as EU Tariffs Phased Out |
Kia Losing In U.S. Auto Shipments, Road Ahead No Better |
Australia Profits From Commodity Boom, But Buys More Than Expected |
Panalpina Doesn’t Pan Out, Outlook Panned |
Wednesday, March 01, 2017
Less WTO, More Wrestling with South Korea Previewed in Trump Trade Tract |
Who Can Sate CMA-CGM’s Hunger for U.S. Number 1 Spot? |
Los Angeles Carries California As PCCI Advances 3% |
Shippers’ Confidence Not Borne Out By February Rate Performance |
20 Most Read Panjiva Research Articles in February |
Global Trade Daily Podcast Now Available! |
Chinese Managers Upbeat, Americans Seek To Beat the BAT |
Did Trump’s Speech Support BAT? It May Slow New Trade Deals |
K+N Strikes Cautious Note for Shipping After Soft Quarter |
Seaspan Slips, Saves Before Spending |
LG Invests in U.S. Before Trump Takes Them To The Cleaners |
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
South Korea Shipment Success May Breed U.S. Currency Contempt |
The Steel’s Gone But the Controversy Will Linger |
GM Teardown Reveals Border Tax Exposure to Chinese Wheels, Korean Batteries |
Audi’s Q5 Factory Causes Veracruz Port Traffic Acceleration |
Colombia Truckers May Push Douwe Egberts Further into Peruvian Coffee |
U.S. Deficit Defies Expectations as Seaborne Shipments Surge |
Hapag Lloyd Beats The Street, Flags Need for Discipline |
Monday, February 27, 2017
New Zealand’s Appetite for Oil, China’s Desire for Dairy Drives Trade |
Savannah and Norfolk Form Tag Team to Take on Charleston and Philadelphia |
U.S. Trusts Itself 16 Times More Than The WTO |
Play-Doh Returns to U.S. After Imports Build Up |
Japanese Auto Exports Slow as Toyota Taps the Brakes |
Fuel Needs Drag Mexican Trade Deficit to New High |
Thailand’s Expansion Continues, Future Growth Likely From Asia |
Sunday, February 26, 2017
RCEP Talks Continue: Success Not Guaranteed, But China Still Needs Growth |
Friday, February 24, 2017
Venezuela’s Oil Cash Flows But Imports Still Fall |
Cuba Faces $2.6 Billion Trade Deficit, Swaps Chinese Tractors for U.S. Food |
Obama-Trump Bridge Trade Figures Likely to Expand |
Magna Sourcing Teardown Reveals Austrian Axles, Chinese Transmissions |
Lumber May Not be Lumbered with NAFTA Negotiation |
Global Trade Growth in 2016 Set to Continue in 2017, at Least in January |
In Merkel They Trust – German Managers’ Export Optimism Rises |
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Caterpillar Sourcing Teardown Reveals Japanese Buckets and Chinese Gears |
Have Makita and Black & Decker Tooled Up to Tackle Border Tax? |
New Zealand Aims to Take Bigger Bite of China Apple Market |
Mnuchin’s Currency Manipulation Net May Be Cast Wider Than Before |
Maersk Sees Brazil Activity Held Up By Equipment Shortage |
Dupont’s Refrigerant Opportunity Expands As Chinese Exports Cool |
APM Investment Could Boost NY/NJ Imports by 15% |
French Managers the Happiest in Over Five Years, More Smiles to Come |
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
U.S. Skips Tire Tariffs as China Crushes Foreign Competition |
Circumvention May Be Circuitous as Commission Considers Tube Case |
WTO Cuts Red Tape, But Big Ugly Wall of Trade Barriers Grows |
Longshoremen’s Short Strike a Long Term Ploy |
Mexico and Canada Lack Leverage for Trilateral Trump Talks |
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Generic Drug Imports Fall as Healthcare Costs Expected to Rise |
Fanuc Fans Flames of U.S. Industrial Automation |
New FTZs to Tackle China Trade Slowdown |
EU Approval for Maersk’s HamSu Bid May Hinge on Brazil |
Peru Has Copper Opportunity, Asparagus Risk With Trump |
Evergreen Upbeat, Rate Rally Pauses |
Monday, February 20, 2017
Could China Shock Tesla Analysts? |
Trump’s Deficit Definition Definitely Of Limited Use, Shows Job Risks |
Less Below Normal Than Normal Export Stance for Managers Before Brexit |
Spain’s Wobbly Growth Continues in December, More to Come In January |
Kim Jong-un Faces $1.8 billion Choice as China Implements Sanctions |
Japanese Exports Disappoint As U.S. Auto Shipments Slump |
Friday, February 17, 2017
Jets Wash Out Panama Effect as Northwest PCCI Climbs 5% |
Are Department Stores Hoarding Ahead of BAT? |
Trump Not the Only Enemy For China as Remedies Rise |
India Commits to Steel Tariffs, Keeping Up With The U.S. and EU |
Kate Spade Sourcing Teardown Shows Hong Kong Matters Most |
Mexican Gas Price Hikes Look Unavoidable as Imports Leap |
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Charleston Has Best Month Ever on China, Panama Growth |
Has Hanjin’s Demise Helped the Shipping Industry? |
Border Tax Risk for Ikea, Rooms to Go as Furniture Imports Soar |
Hamburg Sud’s Brazilian Domination Extends |
Global Clean Tech Spending Slump Led by U.S. Imports |
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Italian Trade Ends 2016 On a High, More to Come In January |
Brazilian Coffee Imports a Relief, But Not Significant |
CETA Still Not Certain as Growth Goes Against the EU |
LNG Demand Lights Up, Will Trump Let The U.S. Play? |
Nintendo Switches Up Its Imports Ahead of New Console |
Being Small But Simply Formed Makes Messina Attractive to MSC |
Indian Export Growth Slows, But Faces Trump Trap Risk |
COSCO Ports Grow With Toys, But Lag China As a Whole |
Siemens Powers Ahead in Mexico, Room To Grow Further |
Has Hyundai MM Already Lost the Battle for Walmart’s Custom? |
Hong Kong Hurdles Holiday Hiatus As Growth Continues |
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Glycine Imports Fall, But Tariffs May Not Be Working |
Long Beach’s Long Nightmare Ends as Container Growth Returns |
Ericsson Grows, Nokia Shrinks as U.S. Phone Network Imports Hit (Another) High |
Did Samsung Beat Apple in 4Q U.S. Smartphone Shipments? |
Hyundai MM Receives Government Largesse, Bad News for Everyone |
EU Ready To Go Into BAT Against Trump at WTO |
Tweaks Not Tariffs From Trudeau-Trump Trade Meeting |
Monday, February 13, 2017
Maritime Oil Out of Favor with U.S. Refiners as Tankers Consolidate |
Trump’s Narrowed Oil Target Still a Long Way From Completion |
Christal Shines as NVOCCs Beat Industry |
Printers Spool Up While HP Runs Out of Ink |
A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy for Japanese Liner Rates |
Savannah’s Sweet Sixteen as Trade Hub Status Grows |
North Korea Sanctions Yet to Bite as Missile Launches Continue |
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Did Abe’s Investment Sword Counter Trump’s Currency Sabre? |
Panama Canal Succeeds After Seven Months |
Friday, February 10, 2017
Last Chance to Blame Obama for Higher Imports |
NAFTA Not the Only Risk for Mexican Avocados |
LNG Lags, Making MISC Miss Expectations |
Strong U.K. Exports May Mask Rot Underneath |
Duterte Has China To Thank for Philippine Export Growth |
Thursday, February 09, 2017
China’s Trade Rebounds, Guess Who Won’t Be Happy… |
Laptop Apathy in 4Q Meets Trump Tariff Panic in January |
Americans Buy More Ammunition, Fewer Guns from Abroad |
MSC’s Remarkable Market Share Bounce Leads Industry Consolidation |
Geogrid Case Shows Need for Speed |
Nisshinbo Applies the Brakes in Mexico |
Freeland Takes Hawkish Stance, Canada Could Squeeze U.S. Tech |
Hyundai MM Past The Worst As Revenues Bounce 18% |
Wednesday, February 08, 2017
Navarro-Baiting Record German Trade Surplus Faces Slow-Down |
Savannah Surges, Seattle Sinks in January Port Rankings |
Cuervo’s Tequila Exports Surged Ahead of IPO |
Will Brazil Need a Pick-Me-Up Coffee? |
Ford, Nissan Mexican Exports Slump Ahead of Trump Deal |
Southwire, Nexans Preempt Chilean Copper Mine Strike |
Tuesday, February 07, 2017
Trina, Hanwha Hope for Brighter EU Solar Future |
Maersk’s Miss Doesn’t Demonstrate Disaster, Outlook Optimistic |
No Trump Effect Yet as U.S. Import Growth Continues in January |
OPEC Can’t Save Canada From Slowing Autos |
Why 2.2%, Not $734 Billion Should Be The Headline for U.S. Trade |
Hyundai MM May Be The Herald of a New Shipbuilding Cycle |
Frontline Needs Higher Price, Brighter Outlook to Woo DHT |
Monday, February 06, 2017
Airbus Creates French Export Growth, Future Brighter |
Strong Taiwan Trade May Signal Foxconn Phone Growth |
33 Ways U.S. Farmers Can Help Abe Beat Trump |
Alliances Good, Deals Bad As Far As FMC is Concerned? |
Merkel’s $1 billion EU Export Opportunity for Uruguay |
After 20 Years of Tariffs, China is Still in U.S. Magnesium |
Could a $7,600 German Auto Tax Lead the U.S. to Leave the WTO? |
Sunday, February 05, 2017
Awaiting the $45 billion Tweet from @realdonaldtrump |
Friday, February 03, 2017
Tearing a Strip, of Steel, Off China May Not be Enough |
Air Transport Jobs Hit Highest Since 2008, Warehouses Break Record |
Cattlemen Saddle Up for NAFTA, Other Opportunities Abound |
GoPro Disappoints But Imports Show Improvement Ahead |
Thursday, February 02, 2017
Trump, Trudeau and Peña Nieto’s Top 50 NAFTA Pain Points |
NZ’s Free Traders Need to Send More Beef to Trump’s America |
U.K. Zero-Tariff Brexit Offer Faces Divergent EU Trade Surpluses |
Samsung’s Trump-Inspired Move May Shift Fridges, not TVs |
Wooden Can Kicked Down the Road, for NAFTA? |
Wednesday, February 01, 2017
Toyota’s U.S. January Sales Slump as Japanese Imports Fall 5% |
There’s Rarely Bean a Better Performance from Brazil |
Australia’s Record Surplus Might Not be Sustainable |
CMA-CGM Deal with Total Makes Financial and Regulatory Sense |
Is the U.S. More Worried About Trump Than Europe and China? |
Airfreight Growth Flies, Turbulence Ahead |
Rothfos Bags Colombian Coffee Supplies as Brazil Dries Up |
Did Bumper Apple Results Eat All Foxconn’s Exports? |
Under Armour Underperforms as Import Growth Slides |
Trump Waves Currency Saber as Japan Deal Opener |
Suppliers’ Paradise – China Import PMI at Five Year High |
Electronics Boost South Korean Trade, Trump Accusations Possible |
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Tanker Rates Killed in January, Containers Still Killing It |
20 Most Read Panjiva Research Articles in January |
Cuban Trade Struggling – Blame Sugar, Not Trump |
Is Germany Next on Trump’s Target List? |
Venezuela’s Oil Exports Grow While Imports Shrink |
Monday, January 30, 2017
Japanese Shippers Show (Mostly) Better Growth, Brighter Outlook |
Industry-Beating NVOCC Growth Faces Technology Risks |
No Romance for Chemicals as Stolt-Nielsen Disappoints |
Cargo Growth Accelerates in December, Faces Trump in January |
Southeast PCCI Grows, But Still Falls Behind |
New Year, Old Topics in Steel Dumping Case |
Trump and May to Stay Hand-in-Hand-in-Trade |
Frontline Buys Youth and Scale with DHT Deal |
California Cargo Growth Accelerates, PCCI Jumps 7% |
Sunday, January 29, 2017
Nissan’s Export Success May Draw Trump’s Attention |
New Zealand Trade Stumbles, China Growth May Be Hobbled |
Friday, January 27, 2017
Orient Overseas Grows Revenues Using Volumes, Not Rates (Yet) |
DHL Express Brings Growth as PCCI Northwest Jumps 10% |
Charleston’s China-Fuelled 2016 Growth Needs Trump Finance to Continue |
Closer Port Ties May Cause Regulatory Bind |
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Colombia Raises the Standard for Gold Exports |
Euronav Shows Shipping Recovery, Investors Focus on Financing |
Germans Join Euro Export Growth Hopes, Until Autos Turn Again |
Trump Trade Deficit Focus Drawn by 6% Mexican Export Surge |
Ross Needs New Import Tools to Cut Tool Imports |
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Great December Turns Terrible 2016 Tide for Savannah |
Slow Tire Case Misses the Mark, Supports Trump’s Aims |
A Jollier Time in Europe, Especially In France |
Engine and Digger Parts Drive Rebuild in Japanese Exports |
World Trade Roars Back to Life |
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Mexican Autos at Risk if Trump Opens CAFE |
Shipping Shuffles Forward, Analysts Hope |
Thai Export Success Faces Trump Risk |
RCEP More Likely Than China in TPP 2.0 |
Brexit Keys Could Be In Austrian, Italian or Greek Hands |
Monday, January 23, 2017
Are Lemons the Canary of Trump Trade Negotiations? |
TPP Gone, But NAFTA Matters More |
Weak 4Q Apparel Imports May Be Reflected in Kohl’s, JC Penney Sales |
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Trump’s Robotic Conundrum – Tariffs vs. Automation vs. Retaliation |
Foxconn (Might) Put on a Display for Trump |
Friday, January 20, 2017
Trump’s Trade Hawk Takes Leisurely Flight, Until the Next Deficit |
Bad Times for Shipbuilders Mean Good Times for Shipping Companies |
No Deal for Now, High Expectations for Orient Overseas in 2017 |
Thursday, January 19, 2017
Beer Good, More Beer Better for Railroads |
Trump Brings More Wind, Less Sun to the Renewables Industry |
Chinese Printers Feed into U.S. Market, HP Jammed |
Volatile Spanish Exports Take a Step Forward |
Hyundai MM (Finally) Joins MSC In Underperforming Port Ownership |
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Last Orders for Froman With Canadian Wine Complaint |
Cut to Length Steel Cut Out, Will Ross Want More? |
Huawei Left Behind as U.S. Network Gear Imports Hit Quarterly High |
Adidas Sees Little Change to Business Under Trump Trade Policy |
HP, Lenovo Likely Bucked Weak 4Q For U.S. PC Imports |
Retaliation a Bigger Risk Than Indonesian Cattle for U.S. Farmers |
China Needs New Furrow to Plough as U.S. Fertilizer Imports Cut |
Orient Overseas Could Join ‘Get Bigger, Build Less’ Trend |
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
GM to Bring American Axle’s Mexican Axles Back to America |
TTIP Progress Report More Likely To Be Its Elegy |
Shipping Rates Rise, Except to South Korea |
Italy’s Exports Helped by Oil, Hindered by Canned Tomatoes |
Post-Election Tariff Worries May Have Boosted U.S. Phone Imports |
Trump’s Day 1 TPP, NAFTA Moves to be Followed by Crowded Kitchen |
Mexican Ports Grow, But 1-in-7 Containers Are U.S. Bound |
Main Brexit Problem is EU Unity, Not U.K. Desires |
Monday, January 16, 2017
Trump’s “Very Quickly” Means Years, Not Months, For U.K. |
Trump Just One of BMW’s Problems as 4Q Imports Fall |
COSCO Pacific Lags Hong Kong Holiday Growth, Expands Elsewhere |
Valero Slides Past Chevron as Top Oil Importer While PBF Slumps |
11-Fold Energy Challenge for Trump, Canada May Pay Price |
Friday, January 13, 2017
Lego Brings the Bat in December, Faces Trump in January |
Indian Exports Bounce on U.S. Rubber Shipments |
Rush to Beat Trump, Early New Year Help Weak China Exports |
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Videogames Imports Face Battlefield:Trump in 2017 After Slow 2016 |
Obama’s Parting China Aluminum Shot Gives Trump Another Target |
Container-Liners Consolidate Market Share After Bumper Fourth Quarter |
(Some of) California Knows How to Party |
OPEC-Inspired Import Price Hike Adds Impetus to Trump Tariffs |
COSCO’s Secure Financing Not Necessarily a Good Thing |
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Rail the Way for Mexico to Boost Gasoline Imports |
China Grains Decision Likely to be About Grains, Not Trump |
Are Pharma Imports Reddy for Trump? |
LA Lands China Surprise Volume Growth, Leads U.S. Ports Again |
Samsung’s Washer Agility a Lesson for U.S. Trade Cases in 2017 |
British Trade Records Face Manager Gloom |
Panjiva Webinar – Global Trade Outlook for 2017 |
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
World Bank Banks on Less World Trade Growth |
American Ammunition Imports Hit New Record in 2016 |
Small Stage, Sticky Situation for Corn Syrup Trade |
Is Trump Looking In The Wrong Place? |
Soaring Airfreight May Continue Its Ascent in December |
Philippine Export Slump Trends Likely Continued in December |
Cheap Shots as Coffee Exports Perk Up in November |
Mexican Autos’ Fast 4Q Faces Furious Trump in 2017 |
Monday, January 09, 2017
One Steel Supplier’s Sunset is Another’s Sunrise |
LNG Elevated as China Chokes on Coal Power |
25 Months of Chinese PC Pain May Soon Be Over |
Chips Drive Taiwan Export Jump, But Where Are They Going? |
Fiat Chrysler Toes the Trump Line, Mexico May Not Suffer |
Thai Floods Disrupt 10% of U.S. Tire Market |
Sunday, January 08, 2017
Neopanamax Effect Still Alive in December |
Germany’s Auto-Led Export Parade May Face Trump Rain |
Trump Racing? China Phone Exports to U.S. Jumped 40% in November |
Friday, January 06, 2017
Warehouse Jobs Growth Slows to April 2014 Level |
Canada Has Half Billion Dollar Gain, Faces Long-Term Policy Pain |
Deficit Develops as Fewer Foreigners Value American Intellect |
Australia’s Trade Surplus is a Gas, Don’t Wine |
$5.5 billion South Korean Move Undermines Shipping Industry Discipline |
Black & Decker Tools Up for Growth as Imports Build |
Trump Trips on Toyota Auto Facts, Canada the Actual Loser |
Thursday, January 05, 2017
France Export Growth Seen Through a Glass, Lightly |
MSC Loses Out to Maersk in Brazil, But Does It Care? |
Maersk’s Alibaba Deal Could Access 699,000 Contract Market |
Toyo Tire and Kenda’s Construction Opportunity from Indian Tire Imports’ Puncture |
Tesla Gigafactory Opens, Lithium Imports Leap |
Imported Autos Fail to Join in U.S. Auto Increase in 2016 |
Wednesday, January 04, 2017
Bad Year, Better Quarter for Shipping Rates in 2016 |
7 Trade-Sensitive Industries to Watch in 2017 |
Apple Flavor’s Milk Supply Outlook Unappetizing |
Steel Tariffs Removed, for a Change |
Tuesday, January 03, 2017
Japan Shipping Inc Downbeat, but Coping |
U.S. Managers’ Trump Honeymoon May Be Brief, Brexit Experience Shows |
Trump Tries to Make Autos Great Again, Bilaterally |
6 Shipping Industry Questions to Answer in 2017 |
Cracking Export Opportunity for U.S. Egg Suppliers |
Morocco Squeezed as USDA Restricts Citrus Fruit Exports |
Wall of Plywood Shipments Arrive as ITC Investigations Dumping |
Hyundai MM Gets By With Help from Little Friends |
Another Tariff Hawk in Trump’s Trade Policy Nest? |
Brazilian Consumers Play and Eat Their Way to Import Growth |
Monday, January 02, 2017
Hanjin, Samsung Nightmares Pass as South Korea Growth Awakens |
China Trade Outlook Hopeful, Just |
3 Macroeconomic Data Trends to Follow in 2017 |
7 Trade Deals to Track in 2017 |
20 Most Read Research Articles of 2016 |
Friday, December 30, 2016
U.S. Gasoline Profits from Mexican, Venezuelan Refinery Issues |
Thursday, December 29, 2016
GSP Not the Only USP For Argentine Exports to U.S. |
10 Top Trade Trends From 2016 – Trump, Steel and Deals |
Navarro and Ross Policies Supported by U.S. Deficit Jump |
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Fuel for Trump’s Tariff Fire as Panjiva Combined Cargo Index Rises for Sixth Month |
High Seas, Low Altitude Boost Southeast PCCI By 4% |
LAX Doesn’t Lack for Growth as California PCCI Climbs |
Nissan Leads Japanese Auto Exports, Just Not to The U.S. |
Oil Powers Thai Exports as Rice Shipments Slide |
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Pre-Holiday Heartburn Drug Imports Led by Teva and Cipla |
Cuban Imports Down at Heel After China Purchases Drop |
Statins Not Static, Reddy’s Ready to Win |
Friday, December 23, 2016
Trump-bait – Mexico Picks a Bad Month to Have a Good Month |
Apparel Growth Uptick Slowly Reaching Materials Supply Chain |
China Gives Them What They Want, Just Not On What They Want |
Froman Backs Trump Into Post-TTIP Beef Battle |
Not So Little Italy Boosts New York Port Handling |
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Robots May Be Held Hostage To Trump’s Trade Strategy |
Victoria’s Secret Imports Push Upwards in November |
Savannah Saved by Europe, Losing Asia Battle To Charleston |
Spain Doing the Right Thing, Just With The Wrong Stuff |
World Trade Fell for Only 2nd Time Since 2009 in October |
Europe to Keep Shades Closed Against Chinese Solar |
Trump Likely Trade Decision-Maker-in-Chief After NTC Creation |
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Venezuela Eats Less, Watches More |
Barbie and Lego’s Late Surge Saves Toy Import Season |
Clothing Makes a Comeback, Sweaters Under the Tree |
Ford Adds Indian Imports to Mexican Fiesta and European Connections |
When Life Gives USDA Approval, Sell Lemons |
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Earthquake Takes Toll on New Zealand Exports |
Epson, Canon Keep on Growing as Printer Imports Slide |
Dull Dell Sharpens as Leader Lenovo Lags |
Long Beach’s Long Endured Ownership Uncertainty Ended |
GM’s Idle Factories Make Devil of a Problem for Mexican Suppliers |
Storm in a Galvanized Tea Cup, or Broader Trade Squall? |
British Break with Continental Export Optimism |
Monday, December 19, 2016
COSCO’s Bohai Buoyancy at Risk as Tianjin Chokes |
Colombia Beating the Odds on Gold and Coffee Can’t Create Growth |
Solar Power Imports Dim Ahead of Trump Energy Policy |
Moving French Water by Water to China |
Peak Pressure Passed as Aluminum Purchase Proceeds |
Filipino Electronics Growth Hopes Depend on Chinese Customers |
Rogue One’s Last Minute Rescue Doesn’t Save the Holiday |
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Trump’s First Trade Battle Could Be In the Trees |
SeaTac Soars, Offsetting Sub-Standard Subaru Seaborne Shipping |
Slower Cars Drive Japan’s Trade to 16th Straight Drop |
Friday, December 16, 2016
3+4+5=1 in Brazilian Shipping |
WTO Battleground Grows as U.S. Agricultural Exports to China Collapse |
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Italy’s Problem Isn’t Selling Exports, It’s Getting Paid for Them |
Les Bleus Less Blue on Export Outlook in December |
Drug Misuse Rule Changes Visible in AC Trade Data |
Skiers Favor Function Over Fashion With Late Change of Plans |
Charleston Dances to China Tune, Panama Pitched Perfectly |
Gold’s Glitter Beats Steel’s Shine as Indian Deficit Balloons |
FMC Ignores DoJ Concerns to Approve THE, More Work To Do in 2017 |
GM Finds Build Local, Source Global No Protection From Chinese Antitrust |
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Japan More Upbeat, Just Not About Trade |
Hong Kong Heads Ahead of the Mainland With November Traffic Jump |
Long Beach Faces the Price of Its Owner’s Failure: The Worst November in 5 Years |
GoPro’s Late Surge Can’t Rescue Weak Holidays |
Getting Big is Easy, Staying Big Isn’t for Merging Shippers |
Future of $13 Billion in Doubt as China’s Ship Orderbook Hits 5 Year Low |
China’s Port Success Lesson: Be Small and Tech Fueled |
Cyclone Vardah Tragedy Comes as Chennai Exports Struggle to Maintain Growth |
Modernized Defense for EU Sets Stage for 2017’s Trade Battle Royale |
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Better Out than In as Oakland Exports Accelerate |
Brother, Can You Lend a Pound (of Green Coffee) |
Poor Score for PlayStation Drags Videogame Imports Down |
LA Rules West Coast Import Traffic as Port Everglades Rocks to Latin Rhythms |
The $190 Billion Question – How Much Air, Rail and Truck Freight Moved in November? |
Nestle, Keller Finding Formula for Success in Chinese Baby Milk Regulations |
U.S. Has Pistachio Export Market Cracked |
Ammunition Imports Breach 2,800 Tons in November |
Monday, December 12, 2016
Maersk May Go Second Tier Shipping Shopping to Replace Revenues |
Imports’ Red Rag to Trump’s Trade Bull as November Shipments Climb |
Chinese Cast Iron Exporters Want to Avoid Being Washed Down the Drain |
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Samsung and LG Preempt Being Taken to the Cleaners |
North Korean Coal Sacrificed for Good of China Trade Deals |
Hyundai MM’s Limited 2M Deal May Reflect Regulatory Risks |
Friday, December 09, 2016
Hanjin Holiday Decoration Disappointment Diverted |
Neopanamax – Has the Novelty Worn Off? |
The Art of China’s Trade Deals: A Two Pronged Approach |
Brexit Bounce as U.K. Goods Exports Hit New High |
China Steels Itself For Yet Another Corrosive Trade Case |
Thursday, December 08, 2016
Export Drive in Germany May See Sudden Reversal From Autos |
Philippines Beaten by Taiwan as Chip Supplier While Exports Disappoint |
Thai Pineapple Producers Squeezed as Costa Rica’s Find New Markets |
Cisco and Sanmina’s Phone Gear Imports Rise, Face Trump Threat-a-tunity |
Many Ways to Build Market Share Muscle in Glycine |
Copper Pipe Imports Recover After Plumbing Post Duty Depths |
Australian Exports Accelerate, More to Come from Commodities |
Wednesday, December 07, 2016
China Trade Avoids Dips with Chips, Toys and Towels |
Don’t Judge Apple By Falling U.S. Handset Figures |
Rare Earth Exports May Become Rarer |
Global Airfreight Industry Ending Year Better Than It Started |
Chinese Paper Makers Thrive as U.S. Keeps Door (Mostly) Closed |
Lego’s 7% Trump Exposure Leaves It Relaxed for Now |
Airbus Lets French Exports Down as America Provides Growth |
Tuesday, December 06, 2016
Chips to China Can’t Offset Appliances to America as Malaysian Exports Fall |
Faster Chip Exports Drive Taiwan to 2013 Growth High |
Mexican Auto Exports Accelerate Into Trade Deal Fog |
American Cargo Activity Hits High as Savannah and LAX Lead |
Threats Abound As Canada’s Exports Rebound |
Ross Doctrine Needed as U.S. Exports Fall in October |
Mass, Not Trump, May Be Driver of Rassini Brake Deal |
New High for Southeast PCCI in October as Hurricane Shrugged Off |
Monday, December 05, 2016
China Needs RCEP to Further Economic As Well As Geopolitical Aims |
Inventec’s Shiny Chromebook Boosts PC Exports as Quanta’s Quantity Falls |
Sugar Suspension Deal Hurts U.S. Imports, Mexican Exports Unchanged |
Hatchimals Emerge Successful in Top Toy Import Ranking |
Grate Opportunity from U.S. Infrastructure Plan, But Not for All |
U.S. Automakers Paint a Target as Trump Waves Tariff Stick |
Shipping Rate Rally Holds as Hanjin Headache Passes |
Sunday, December 04, 2016
Trump May Prevent Green Goods Deal That China’s Bikes Halted |
Friday, December 02, 2016
Packages Beat Containers in November Jobs Growth |
Turkish Rebar Bar Behind Timetable, Trade Tumbles |
Thursday, December 01, 2016
Mercosur Machinations Bring More Trade Trouble for Venezuela |
Trump Trade Deals: Talk Loudly About Exports, Carry a Big Tariff Stick |
Novo and Lilly Face Tough Growth in Diabetes, Trade Data Shows |
Sweeter Life as Brazil’s Exports Grow at Fastest in Five Years |
U.S. Managers’ Outlook Great Again, About America |
Rio Tinto Wants a Dollar, May Struggle to Get It |
Maersk-Oetker Deal Takes a Run at High Regulatory Hurdles |
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
OPEC May Add to Shippers’ 12% 4Q Fuel Cost Hike |
2012 Highs for Chinese Orders Means (Almost) Everyone Wins |
China Chip Shipments Push South Korea Back to Growth |
Espressos in Order as Coffee Exports Dry Up |
ThyssenKrupp and Foxconn Help Mexico’s Ports Outpace the Economy |
NYK Wants a Bigger Bite of the Chilled Fruit Trade |
Korea Line Wants a Californian Partner, Perhaps Not MSC |
Sanctions Could Cut China’s North Korean Imports by a Quarter |
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
California PCCI Climbs for Seventh Month as Airfreight Soars |
U.S. Tries to Hammer Chinese Tool Exports, Misses |
Cuba’s $200 Million Trade Deficit Question |
Daimler and Foton Invest for Brighter Future in China |
Lego Builds in China, Gets Set for Asia Sales |
Monday, November 28, 2016
Patient Recovery – Hapag Sees Improved Rates Taking A Few Quarters |
THE an Alliance Step Too Far for U.S. DoJ |
Venezuela Pumps More, Still Struggles for Food |
Oetker Cooks Up a Sale as Hamburg’s Sizzle Fizzles |
OECD Bumps Up China, U.S. Export Outlook Ahead of Trade Battle |
Limited Growing Season as Lumber Case Petition Brought |
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Selling More by Selling Cheaper Shrinks Thai Exports |
Sino-American Trade Talks Touch on Soda Ash, May Be Flamed by Trump |
Friday, November 25, 2016
Samsung’s Shipment Slip Slashes Mexican Exports but Deficit Dips |
Blame Europe, not Mexico, for U.S. Deficit Jump |
World Trade Grows Before China Slows, Brazil Brakes |
German Export Optimists Tip Over as TTIP Likelihood Subsides |
Philly Fills More Boats, Looks to Double Up |
Fuji Mounts Japanese Auto Export Growth Rankings |
Logging, not Herding, Helps New Zealand Exports |
Inkjets Jammed, Toner Drying Up as Print Imports Slow |
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Chilipino Talks Show China’s Not The Only Game in Town |
Duties May Not Be Enough to Keep Collar on Flanges |
ESB Rubber Imports Bounce as Trade Case Delayed |
Tequila Shot as Jose Cuervo Parks IPO |
French Fear Falling Exports Will Continue |
Hapag-Lloyd’s UASC Give-Up to EC Not a Big Deal |
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Tires Squeal as Trade Cases Get Grip On Chinese Exports |
China Wants Early RCEP Results to Tackle Trade Troubles |
Plywood Pressured as U.S. Investigates Chinese Exports |
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
HP Beats Street Sales with Laptop Import Jump |
Karaoke and Keyboards Key to Musical Gift Giving |
Rising U.S. Deficit Possible as Hawks Gather |
The Old Ones Are the Best Ones as P-PI Drug Imports Grow |
Emptier Books, Happier Readers in British Export Survey |
China Shines a Light on Solar Silicon Duties |
Wilmington has Will to Grow |
Monday, November 21, 2016
Korea Line Makes First Hanjin Nibble, Bigger Bite Needed |
No TPP is No Surprise, But What of NAFTA and TTIP? |
Lamotrigine Leads AC Drug Import Growth, GSK Doesn’t Gain |
China Rips Into Competitors’ Apparel Materials Market Share |
No Love For The Elevator Decision by Commerce, ITC Rules |
Charleston Channels China Trade, Fills Empty Boxes |
Statin Imports Accelerate After Crestor Passes Its Crest |
Japanese Pool Chemical Imports Make a Splash as Chinese Duties Retained |
Spanish Exports Stuck as More Volumes, Less Value Shipped |
Milestone Passed as Container Rates Back in Black |
Japan’s Exports Slide, Struggle for Traction |
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Showdown or Hoedown Between China and U.S. Trade Reps? |
Friday, November 18, 2016
Colombian Exporters Miss Out on Coffee, Coal Price Rises |
Shipping Revenues Inch Ahead in 3Q as CMA-CGM Slips |
Hanjin Hangs on A Little Longer |
Destocking Drags Underwear Imports Down in October |
Beer Logistics Alliance Arrives as Craft Trend Bites |
Ecuador Joins EU Trade Deal, Gains May Be Limited |
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Foxconn, Pegatron Reluctant to React to Trump Trade Threat |
APEC May Result in RCEP+ as TPP Likelihood Fades |
Beer Beats Wine as Kegerators Find Favor |
Sweaters Warmer, Dresses Smarter but Denim in Doldrums |
U.S. Applies Pressure to Pressure Pipes from India |
NYK Plays Port Pokemon Ahead of MOLNYKKKK Merger |
Hong Kong Ports Leave Mainland Behind as Growth Returns |
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Americans Drink Up, Light Up Italian Exports |
Valley Deep, Mountain Low for Winter-Sports Imports |
Making Industrial Automation Great Again |
Trees-by-Sea Boost Northwest Cargoes, E-Commerce Elusive |
Yangtze Drop Floods Bohai Growth So COSCO Port Volumes Fall |
Norfolk Sets Sail For Growth, Could Overtake South Houston |
Trump Clouds Solar Outlook as Hanwha Handed Exporter Lead |
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Panjiva Webinar – Trump’s Top Trade Policies Analyzed |
China Shipbuilders’ Orderbooks Sink to 38 Month Low |
Long Beach Not Running on Empties as LA Leaps Ahead |
Toy Buyers Find These Are The Drones They’re Looking For |
U.S. Import Bounce Possible as Price Deflation Slows |
Board and Tired U.S. Exports Make for India Trade Jump |
New Zealand Quake Impact on Trade Minimal |
TTIP Tips Over, Not a Trump Trade Target |
Monday, November 14, 2016
Xbox High Score All About the Timing |
KORUS Lesson for KORMEX – More Trade, Not Less Deficit |
Transpacific Price Plummet Makes for Hapag-Lloyd Disappointment |
Oil Spending, Not EC Duties, Matters to Chinese Pipe Exports |
Hanjin Shipping 2.0 not HMM-Plus as Korea Line Advances |
Hyundai MM Revenues Drop Like Japanese Shippers, Recover Like Taiwanese |
Sunday, November 13, 2016
Charleston’s Panama-Routed Growth May Offset Hurricane Disruption |
Trump Effect Lifts Baltic Rates, For Now |
JC Penney Disappoints as Nordstrom’s Inventory Bucks Lower Imports |
Lenovo Leaps for the Holidays as MacBook, Surface Awaited |
Friday, November 11, 2016
Evergreen Goes for Growth, But Misses the Mark |
U.S. Smartphone Imports Climb as Apple Sales Languish |
Phone Equipment Sales and Imports Disconnected |
Thursday, November 10, 2016
NYK Lost U.S.-Bound Rank to Mitsui-OSK in October |
Canada May Rush for Lumber Deal in Case Trump’s Bark has Bite |
Trade Restrictions in 2016 to Reach 2009 Levels – Just Wait for 2017 |
First Scene of Last Play for USTR as WTO Acts on Materials Complaint |
Chips Satisfy 17 Months of Philippine Export Hunger |
Rising Tide of Imports Lifts (Almost) All Ports |
Wednesday, November 09, 2016
Panama’s Promised Diversions Delivered |
Auto Parts Could Throw Wrench into NAFTA Dealmaking |
U.K. Exports Need Special Relationship to be Great Again |
Making Trade Grate |
Ammunition Imports Hit New High Ahead of Gun Control Votes |
Drones Soar as GoPro Woes Continue |
Tuesday, November 08, 2016
Commerce Case Checks Cut Cut-to-Length Steel Imports |
A Love of Furniture and Europe Drives U.S. October Import Surge |
French Deficit Climbs as Airbus Flies, Renault Parks |
German Exports to Shift into Higher Gear After Slow September |
More Cheaper Exports May Be China’s Trade Problem |
Monday, November 07, 2016
Coast-to-Coast Swings Leave PCCI 1% Higher in September |
Southeast Cargoes Fly Despite Miami Air-Import Descent |
A Diverting Story About Steel |
Too Soon To Board the Taiwan Trade Rocket |
Four U.S.-Route Hanjin Shipping Vessels Up For Sale |
Economics Adds to Geopolitical Urgency for China to Complete RCEP |
Sunday, November 06, 2016
Sri Lankan Suits’ Slide Makes Trade Liberalization Vital |
Friday, November 04, 2016
Blunting Canada’s Deficit Spike Needs More Than Just Auto Exports |
U.S. Deficit Dives Ahead of Anti-Trade Elections |
Hanjin Shipping Layoffs Weigh on U.S. Logistics Payrolls |
Liquefied Gas Chips Away at Malaysia’s Exports |
Department Store Sales Hopes Not Supported by Imports |
Thursday, November 03, 2016
Adidas U.S. Revenues Race Ahead After Imports Sprint |
2M-Plus Close to Fruition as Hanjin Restructuring Nears Close |
Subaru Sales Drive Depends on Local Production, not Exports |
China Looking to SCOre More Exports in Central Asia |
Gold Not Rushing to America Causes Australian Export Slip |
Wednesday, November 02, 2016
Volvo Takes Make-not-Ship Decision for Chinese Market |
The Seven-Fold Argentine Opportunity for Chinese PC Exports |
Daimler Drags on MSC’s Brazil Market Share in September |
MISC in Same Boat as Bahri and Euronav as Revenues Slide |
Maersk’s 3Q Improvement Supports Industry Recovery, Market Doesn’t Care |
Consumers May Be Squeezed as Orange Supplies Slow |
Tuesday, November 01, 2016
MOLNYKKKK’s Japan Route Dominance, Port Spread May Be Regulatory Risks |
Brazil Reaps Harvest Effect With Export Drop in October |
American Managers Optimism Growing, But Not Shared |
Colonial Closure May Mean Increased Seaborne Imports |
COMAC Strips Booking of Orders from Airbus, Boeing in China |
Seaspan Sales Hit High, For Now |
U.S. Pours Cold Water on China Chemical Imports, India May Win |
Chinese Manufacturers Favoring Locals Over Imports |
Samsung Drags on South Korea Exports but Imports More Worrying |
Vietnam Bags Coffee Export Share as Brazil Dries Up |
Shipping Rate Rally Retained in October |
Monday, October 31, 2016
Ferocious Ferrovanadium Competition Brings Anti-Dumping Determinations |
Flexibility Key to Billion Dollar Target |
Euronav Navigates the Chop in Revenues |
Gloves Are Off as Warm Weather, Buying Habits Change |
Friday, October 28, 2016
China COSCO Makes Most of Third Quarter Rate Hikes |
OOIL Pours Hope onto Industry Sales Recovery Expectations |
Nissan Chooses Supply Chain Links Over Brexit Risks |
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Ammonium Moans Chase China’s Producers Away |
CETA Not Set in Stone as Belgium Breaks Deal Deadlock |
HSH Hands Hanjin’s Heaviest Haulers to Maersk, MSC |
Colombia Hass an Opportunity to Export to U.S. |
Bunge Bets Brazil Business on Argentina as Wheat Worries Weigh |
LAX Makes Sure Hanjin Shipping Impact on California Lacks Bite |
Honda Beats Quake to Boost Japanese Auto Exports to 55 Month High |
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
New Zealand Deficit Soars as Jets Fly, Timber Falls |
Venezuela’s Trade Falters in August as Protests Mount |
U.S. Deficit Drops Despite Falling Food, Parked Car Exports |
Mexico Buys American, But Not Enough to Remove Trade Surplus |
South Korea, Not Bull Moose, the Winner in U.S. Steel Pipe Case |
German’s Joy Offsets French Frowns in EU Export Outlook |
Cows (Milk) Might Fly, to China, from Tasmania |
Printers and Cookers Cause Thailand Export Growth |
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Lithium Leaps, Batteries Bound Before Tesla Sales Surge |
Brazilian Bounce Buoys World Trade in August |
INSEE See Overseas Sales Gloom Deepen in France |
Poor Panalpina Performance Doesn’t Derail Shipping Revenue Recovery |
Monday, October 24, 2016
CETA Collides with Walloon-Flemish Infighting |
Commerce Conveys Concerns Over Elevator Part Imports |
U.S. Wants What China Won’t Sell, Will Ask WTO Why |
Predictable Politics, Unpredictable Deficit for U.S. in September |
British Export Managers Cheaper and Less Miserable |
Hanjin Shipping Leaves Europe, Decline Three Years in the Making |
Market Share Tide in Ocean’s Favor as FMC Approves Deal |
Orders Better, Book Still Shrinking for China’s Shipbuilders |
Plastic Not Fantastic as Expensive Autos Cause Japanese Export Drop |
Friday, October 21, 2016
Souza Cruz May Smoke Brazilian Competitors if BAT Buys Reynolds |
Buckeye Bahamas Reopens After Eye of Storm Passes |
Perdue Finds Its Way to Brazil, Cuts Farmers’ Reliance on China |
Skechers Sales Disappoint After Slower Import Growth Picture |
Long Beach Buoys Hanjin Shipping Refinancing as Volumes Recover |
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Generic Nexium Pumps Up PPI Imports in September |
Topiramate Tops Anticonvulsant Drug Import Growth in September |
Statins Not Static as Imports Jump on Generics |
Toyo, Goodyear Step In With Bus Tires Where Double Coin Fears to Tread |
Europe Wants to Get as Tough on Trade as U.S. |
Imported American Girl Helps Mattel as Rogue One Arrives Late for Hasbro |
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Spanish Exports Recover, Help from American Consumers Needed |
Toys’R’Us Drones In as GoPro Hopes for Instant Karma |
Passing Peak Zombie as Potter Prequel Casts Spell |
Process The Enemy of Time as CETA Clock Ticks |
Miners Return Colombia to Export Growth in August |
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Material Growth Eludes U.S. Apparel Supply Chain |
Northwest Past Its Best as SeaTac Slips |
K+N Sales Miss Casts Doubt on Third Quarter Shipping Revenue Recovery |
Monday, October 17, 2016
Heavy Industry Beats Electronics in Cosco Pacific’s Container Handling |
Main Takeaway from Savannah is Fewer Takeaways |
Port of Charleston Cheers Before Hurricane Howls |
Hanes Empties Stockroom as Underwear Overcomes Apparel Apathy |
Warm Winter Memories Make for Fewer Kids’ Clothes |
Oakland Seeks New Growth, Trees a Challenge |
Saudi Sweet Tooth Boosts Brazil Sugar Exports |
GM Spends in Mexico as Exports Go Into Reverse |
Italy the Strong Man of European Exports |
Indian Exports Expand as U.S. Drive Slows |
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Skecher’s, Under Armour Imports Slow as Sales Sprint Predicted |
Friday, October 14, 2016
U.S. Looks to Bar Rebar Steel Imports |
LA Parties as Long Beach Washes Out |
Intel Sales Hopes Supported by Acer, HP Imports |
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Winter Not a Wonderland for Mountain Sports Imports |
Walt Wins, Barbie Swaps Places with Ben in September |
Look to the Skies for U.S. Trade Direction |
CETA Hops a Hurdle That May Return to Haunt It |
Ericsson, Huawei Fall Behind U.S. Phone Equipment Imports |
Drop in Chinese Exports Has Many Parents |
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Tree Trade Continues to be a Saw Point for Canada, U.S. |
Game On for China as U.S. PlayStation, Xbox Imports Slow |
Latin American Experience Inauspicious for China-Colombia Trade Deal |
Mayan Expedition to California Needed to Boost Mexican Oil Exports |
Note 7 Supplier Amperex a Newcomer to China Battery Exports |
China Container Handling Grows as Hong Kong’s U.S.-Bound Decline Continues |
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
U.S. Shines a Light in Dark Solar Power Investment World |
Maersk, MSC Maximize Market Share in September Shipping |
Chinese Chips Can’t Check Philippine’s Export Slide |
How to Choose Vessels for Hanjin Shipping to Sell |
Monday, October 10, 2016
August August for U.S., China Smartphone Shipments |
Savannah the Plain Winner in September’s Import Handling |
Sugar Deal Debated as Mexican Exports Sour |
EU Drops Heavy Duties on Cooling Chinese Steel Exports |
Panama Posts Partial Progress in September Shipment Stats |
Can Germany Sustain August’s Export Explosion? |
Sunday, October 09, 2016
U.S. Imports Still Growing, but Rate Slowing in September |
Friday, October 07, 2016
Chips Aren’t Down as Taiwanese Exports Felled by Typhoon |
Truckers Shipping Out as Warehouse Jobs Grow |
U.K. Export Expansion Needs Sterling Slide as U.S. Shipments Slow |
French Export Recovery in August May Prove Short Lived |
Export Opportunity for U.S. Corn As Brazil Yields |
Malaysia Puts Its Hands on Export Growth as Palm Oil Prices Rise |
Hurricane Disruption Closes 50% of East Coast Port Handling |
Mexican Motors Maintain Momentum in September |
Asian Rotation as Brazil Carrier War Takes a Turn |
Thursday, October 06, 2016
Stilted Stolt Starts Shipping Revenue Reports |
Ford Courts Controversy with Transit Tariff Tactic |
Canada Can’t Afford to Leave Without New U.S. Lumber Deal |
Good Day for Australia Trade Deficit, But Not for Exports |
Wednesday, October 05, 2016
Auto Growth Needed to Steer Canada to Export Expansion |
Hurricane Matthew Could Disrupt 13% of East Coast Shipping |
U.S. Deficit Done a Disservice by Olympic Services |
Airfreight Awaits iPhone, Pixel as Utilization Hits 2009 Low |
Hyundai MM Locks In Hanjin Shipping Coverage Routes |
India Looking to Foil Chinese Aluminum Exports |
Tuesday, October 04, 2016
Did Shipping Revenues Thrill or Spill in the Third Quarter? |
Market Sees Hyundai MM a Winner as Hanjin Shipping Issues Normalize |
Japan’s Export Tankan Tanks, Sentiment Lags China |
Olympics a Distant Memory for Brazil as Trade Declines |
Monday, October 03, 2016
Can U.S., China and German Export Managers Lift World Trade? |
China Losing Appetite for Soybeans from U.S., Brazil |
Sanmei’s Dismay at Refrigerant Ruling Means Solvay Can Play |
U.S. Cups Fill as Coffee Exports Pour in August |
China Seeks Route to Maize Exports |
Colombia Referendum Rejects Rapprochement, Trade Potential Deferred |
Brexit Timer Starts to Tick, Trade Trembles |
China Brings Golden Hopes for World Trade |
September Suffering from Samsung and Shipping for South Korea |
Container Rates Rise 15% in 3Q as Hanjin Shipping Fails |
Friday, September 30, 2016
Cool Run-Ins Possible as Maersk Adds Reefers |
Steel Yourself for an Aluminum Trade War |
Lithium, Battery Availability May Slow Electric Vehicle Sales |
Is the Pessimistic WTO Being Too Optimistic? |
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Surprisingly Low U.S. Deficit – Thank Canada |
Africa Shipping Rates Rise as SA Brings Competition Case |
Distillers’ Grains Fall on Hard Ground in China |
North Korea Sanctions Extended After Dandong Hongxiang Trade |
New Record for Panjiva Combined Cargo Index in August |
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Bunker Fuel May Shrug Off OPEC if Hanjin Effect Persists |
California Cargoes Come Close to March 2015 Record |
Cisco Routes Investment to Mexico as Exports Slow |
Nike Just Not Doing It in North America |
Slow Flying Miami Can’t Stop Regional Cargo Index Hitting Five Year High |
Mexican Trade Rebound Unhelpful in U.S. Political Arena |
U.S. Brake Cannot Slow Japanese Auto Exports |
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
A Love for Europe Could Drive U.S. Deficit Higher |
Now is the Time for a Distribution Center, for Michelin, in Charleston |
German Autos Drive a Two-Speed European Export Outlook |
Monday, September 26, 2016
Trade Stays Central to U.S. Elections, More Exports Needed |
China Wants to Sweeten Cuban Relations |
China Doesn’t Want a U.S. Chicken in its Pot |
Lanxess, Lacking Growth, Looks for Additives |
Hanjin’s Big Boats no Big Deal for U.S.-Bound Routes |
New Routes Not Helping Rates for Asia-U.S. Shipping |
What’s the Big Deal About Big Trade Deals? |
Thai Trade Rebounds as Samsung Heats Up U.S. |
New Zealand Exports Feel Winter Chill in U.S., Warmer in China |
Circumvention May Corrode Steel Case Impact |
Friday, September 23, 2016
China Looks for Trade Power Play With Canada |
Chainsaw Imports Cut Down, Signs of Fresh Growth |
British Business May Be Cheering the First of the Last Hurrahs |
French Export Misery Returns in September |
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Spain Trade Fades in July, U.S. Useless Until August |
Global Trade Shrinks, But There is Some Hope |
Maersk Finds Breaking Up is Easy To Decide |
America’s Fabric Supply-Chain Drops a Stitch |
American Cattle Could Emulate Brazil’s China-Bound Stampede |
Turkey on the Steel Rebar Chopping Block |
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
BaoWu Needs More Than the Urge to Merge |
Little Love for Japan as Exports Hit 2014 Low |
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Vietnam Delays While Exporters Play |
Tacoma Rains on Northwest Cargo Parade |
Canada Still Needs CETA as Socialists Step Back From Brink |
Mercosur Wants a Deal, But Not in a Rush |
GoPro Hopes for Karma as Cameras Snap |
Hapag-Lloyd Invests in Cooling Market |
Underwear Imports Showing Holes, August Shines Through |
Monday, September 19, 2016
Long Lease, Falling Trade for Port of Melbourne |
Colonial’s Gasoline Loss is Shipping’s Gain |
Savannah Swelters on Empty |
Chinese Shipbuilding Orderbook Hits Three Year Low |
Big Isn’t Beautiful as China Port Throughput Rises 7% |
Slow July, Hopping August as China Comes to Charleston |
No Jets, Less Coffee Means Colombian Trade Drought |
Sunday, September 18, 2016
Hanjin’s Rising, then Falling Use of Chartering |
Friday, September 16, 2016
Cargo Shorts Dropped by Importers |
Less to Unwrap These Holidays as Toy Imports Break |
Italian Exports Drop, Brighter American August Ahead |
Thursday, September 15, 2016
India’s Exports Stabilize as U.S. Takes More Steel, Sweaters |
Lithium Shortage Possible if Charges Stick |
Winter Sports Imports Heading Downhill |
LA Beats Long Beach in August, Could Go Further With APM |
Cosco Ports Beat China, but Performance Slowing |
Ford Facing $4,900 Trump Tax on Mexican Autos |
Meranti May Mean Taiwanese Export Disruption |
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Under Armour Needs a Polish as Adidas Steps Up |
Hapag-Lloyd Wins, CMA-CGM Loses in Brazil Market Share War |
H&M and Gap Lead as Myanmar Returns to U.S. Trade |
U.S. Imports’ Cheapening Slows, Deficit in the Balance |
China Chips Away at Tariffs, Helping Samsung, Micron and SanDisk |
Wheat Would Win if U.S. Beats China’s Grain Subsidies |
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
New York and New Jersey Live La Dolce Vita in August Port Rankings |
Stainless Steel Imports Left Unmarked as China Exits |
HP, Samsung Try to Find Way out of Printer Market Jam |
ITC Burns Hot-Rolled Steel Importers, Others Spring Up |
India Winds Up for a WTO Case on Renewables |
Coffee Exports Slow to a Drip, Trouble Brewing |
Monday, September 12, 2016
MSC, Maersk Make Most of Market Share as August Booms |
U.S. Breaks Million Import Shipments Mark in August |
Nearly Last Chance to Nail Down Lumber Deal |
EU, Not China, May be the Villain of Global Steel Problems |
Hanjin Moves Shipping Rates, But Only a Little Bit |
Friday, September 09, 2016
Panama Partly a Victim of Its Own Successful Upgrade |
AGOA Enhancement Comes Just in Time as Trade Contracts |
Korean Solution to Hanjin Crawls Onward |
U.K. Exports Jump as Pound Trips on Brexit |
Sour Sixteen for Philippine Exports |
Porsche, VW Key to Turning Around German Export Malaise |
Thursday, September 08, 2016
China Beats, South Korea Deafened as Airpods Arrive |
South Korea Cleans Up at WTO, China May Follow |
Seven, It’s The Magic Phone Number, for China |
Australian Export Growth Will Have to Wait |
China Trade Recovery EU-Led, Maybe Time Limited |
Taiwan Exports Inch Ahead as More Chips Processed |
Sony Consoles Itself with Holiday VR Growth |
Wednesday, September 07, 2016
Mexican Auto Exports Regain Their Drive in August |
Maersk Could Add 60% From Hanjin’s Transpacific Absence |
Malay Exports Succumb to China Semiconductor Slump |
French Exports Less Miserable, Hardly Happy |
Tuesday, September 06, 2016
Long Beach, Seattle Part of Hanjin Solution and Favored Over LA |
Lego Set to Build Sales in Second Half |
Bayer Bid Nears as Monsanto, Syngenta Struggle to Grow |
Global Airfreight Grew in July, Utilization Almost Unchanged |
G20 Makes Green Progress, Slower on Steel |
Monday, September 05, 2016
Scots Want Chinese to Drink More Tea, Not Just Whisky |
U.S. Plays Whack-a-Roll With Steel Cases |
U.S. Deficit Narrows on Beans, Errors Still Present |
Hanjin Steals the Show in August Liner Rate Review |
Friday, September 02, 2016
Container Revenues Grow in 2Q, More to Come in 3Q |
Canada Surprises, but Still Slowing Outside Autos |
Seafarers Lose out to Couriers in August Jobs Data |
Smith & Wesson Leads Continued Weapons and Ammunition Growth |
Adidas Adds Athletics, August Imports Impress |
Brazilian Trade’s Post-Olympics Party |
U.S. Managers Are Unusual – Trade Will Fall While Exports Grow |
Thursday, September 01, 2016
Shipping Options After Hanjin’s Failure |
HMM Steps Up for Team South Korea, and Itself |
ITA May Set Heading for India in Water Treatment Dispute |
Some Small Relief for China Exports |
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
South Korea Computes Export Growth, Not All It Seems |
California Shines as Panjiva Combined Cargo Index Rises 2.7% in July |
Short Term Squirt Can’t Alleviate Long Term Orange Juice Thirst |
China Keeps on Trucking Despite Commerce Tire Finding |
Heavy Weather Risks for Hawaii as Japan Trade Slows |
Miami’s Vice is Air Exports as PCCI Climbs 3% |
Less, Not Fewer Needed as Hanjin Fails |
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Charleston Hopes for Lift From New Cranes |
China is the Key to G20 Environmental Trade Deal |
Trudeau’s Trade Talks in China Leave Plenty to Do |
CETA’s Lesson for TTIP’s Chaos |
Ocean’s Leading Share Faces FMC Headwinds |
California Cargo Knows How to Party, Seattle Knows Better |
Toyota, Mazda Act as Brake on Japan’s Auto Exports |
Friday, August 26, 2016
Mexican Exports Fall at Fastest Rate Since 2009 |
Hanjin Struggles to Answer the 1.2 Trillion Won Question |
Jumping Beans Squash U.S. Deficit |
German Exporters More Worried About Brexit Than British |
More Boats Floating on Rising Revenue Tide as COSCO Reports |
Oil Adds to Food Woes for Venezuela |
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Thailand Wired for American Sound as Global Exports Slow |
Leave the Trade War, Take the Canola |
Back-to-School Means PCs not Pullies |
COSCO Goes Shopping in Spain as Trade Grows |
New Zealand Shifts to Deficit as U.S. Exports Weaken |
Less Worse, But Not Yet Better Outlook for French Exports |
Supplier Impact of Italy’s Tragic Earthquake |
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
World Trade Judders to Halt as U.S., LatAm Exports Stall |
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Exporters Embrace Brexit, or at Least a Weaker Pound |
G20 Go-Slow a Small, but Unwelcome, Risk for Shanghai Tech Trade |
Hutchison Adds Much-Needed Pakistan Trade Potential |
China Import Acceleration Makes U.S. Deficit Decline Less Likely |
Steel Imports Still Not Fitting ITA’s Requirements |
ChemChina Puts Down Roots as Syngenta Struggles to Grow |
Tough Times for Evergreen as Taiwan’s Orders Wilt |
Monday, August 22, 2016
Colombia Trade With Venezuela Hits New Low |
Clock Ticking for Hanjin, Volume Growth Maybe Not Enough |
Fuel Rises to 11 Month High as Liner Rate Rises Slow |
Eligibility at Stake as AGOA Trade Slips |
China Wants to Make a MES with Steel Decision |
Canada Needs to See the Softwood not the TPP |
Friday, August 19, 2016
The Changeable Attractions of Denim |
Spain Trade Reigns Over Europe, More to Come |
DP World to Expand in Uncertain Environment |
Kirin Chases the Bier-Meisters |
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Maersk’s No Comment, No Need to Rush on Strategy |
Shanghai’s U.S. Shipment Surprise Leaves Hong Kong Fewer |
Fire Threat to LA and Long Beach Yet to Ignite |
Strength Does Not Mean Power for Japan |
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
China’s Had Enough of Slow Trade, Calls for Credit |
Cosco Ports Beat China, but Performance Slowing |
I Don’t Wanna Dolly, I Wanna PlayStation VR |
Panjiva Cargo Index for Northwest Jumps 12.5% on SeaTac Airfreight |
Cisco Cuts as U.S. Imports Plummet |
Trade Work to do for Aung San Suu Kyi |
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
ITA Investigation May Be Fighting Last Year’s Rubber War |
Smartphone Importers Dial G for Growth in June |
Chinese Solar Shines as Wind Gets Blown Away in July |
Chiquita, Folger Face Disruption Risk from Louisiana Storms |
Charleston Struggles, Panama May Provide a Push |
U.K. Seeks to Keep China Trade Flame Alive |
Australia-Colombia FTA Needed as Trade Lags Chile |
Monday, August 15, 2016
Chinese Shipbuilders Have Trouble Taking Orders |
After Tough 2Q, Where Next for Containerline Revenues? |
Venezuela Trade Inches Ahead on Exports but Mercosur in Doubt |
Clinton vs. Obama in TPP Stop-Start Progress |
Breaking up is Hard (and Takes a Long Time) to Do |
Brazilian Shipping Jungle Becomes Ever More Dense |
Sunday, August 14, 2016
Long Beach Loses in July’s Zero-Sum China-Game with LA |
Friday, August 12, 2016
Evergreen Wilts With Wan Hai in 2Q, Sees Green Shoots in July |
India’s Deficit Drops as Imports Tumble |
HMM Crushed in Second Quarter, Trying to Recover in Third |
Maersk Misses, but by Less Than Hapag, Japanese Shippers |
Thursday, August 11, 2016
LA Imports Rise, Avoiding Panama and Embracing China |
RIP TPP? Imports Have Already Outstripped Exports |
Panama Effect Yet to Be Felt as Bookings Slow |
Maersk, MSC Lose Out to Hapag-Lloyd in July Market Share War |
Falling Prices May Push U.S. Deficit Down |
Italy’s Trade Surplus Widens in the Wrong Way |
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Hanjin Pursues Self-Help as State-Aid Ruled Out |
Sun Sets on Philippine Solar, Dawns on Mexico |
U.S. Imports Return to Growth on Europe, Furniture |
Philippine Exports Drop 11%, Little Respite Ahead |
Kenyan Chance to Brew U.S. Sales |
Volumes Let Hapag-Lloyd Down as Rates Cut |
Tuesday, August 09, 2016
The Nuts and Bolts of Port Risk Management |
Penney Spends on Change, Kohl’s Burns Brighter |
Maersk Rationalizes After Building China Market Share |
Trump Trade Plan Unchanged, Exports Still an Issue |
U.K. Trade Bucks Brexit Currency Trend, in a Bad Way |
Mexican Auto Exports Slow, Nowhere to Go in U.S. |
Is Athleisure Over? |
Monday, August 08, 2016
Autos Drive Canada to Highest Ever Trade Deficit |
E-Commerce Jobs Outstrip Traditional Logistics, but Trends Turning |
No Need to Photoshop an Amazon Containership, Yet |
Shrinking Cargoes of Cargo Shorts |
Trade Doesn’t Drive Employment (Right Now) |
China’s Exports Continue Slide, Recovery Not Yet in Sight |
Friday, August 05, 2016
Kiwifruit Caught in Steel War |
Back to School Imports Lag Spending, Denim is Out |
German Exports Disappoint, Rebound Potential in July |
France Will Find Some Use Wining About Exports |
China Chips are Down Even as Malaysia Amazes |
MISC Drives Tank Through Expectations, Beats Containers |
Thursday, August 04, 2016
Airfreight Achieves Takeoff in June as Seaborne Sinks |
Coffee Brakes as Prices Rise |
Deficit of Interest in U.S. Trade Figures |
EU Gives China Steel the Cold Shoulder |
Taste, not Brexit, Matters for Whisky Exports |
Tesla Committed to Targets but Imports Less |
Venezuela Struggles to Feed Itself as Forex Policy Debated |
U.S. Oil Imports Reach Peak, May Be Temporary |
Wednesday, August 03, 2016
Americans Get into Training Gear Before Olympics |
HMM Solves Financing, Now Back to Business |
Samsung Launches Phones, Keep an Eye on Import Data |
Seko Faces Tough Tasks as Japan Trade Minister |
Tuesday, August 02, 2016
Australia Steels Itself as Exports Fall, Deficit Balloons |
Brazilian Exports Slow, Where’s the Beef? |
Export OptimISM Faces Creeping Pessimists |
Market Cottons on to Falling Stockpiles |
Singapore Wants TPP, Electronics at Stake |
Monday, August 01, 2016
China Export Picture Darkens Once More |
Coffee Goes Cold as Indonesian Exports Slump |
Introducing Panjiva’s Combined Cargo Index |
Mexico and Argentina Step Closer to Much Needed FTA |
Weaker Won Won’t Win Export Orders |
Boxes Beat Bulkers in July Rate Review |
Friday, July 29, 2016
Samsung Electronics Results Confirm Trade Data Prediction |
First Growth in U.S. Airborne Trade Since October |
K-Line Worst Performer in Poor 3Q for Japan’s Shippers |
Need New Furniture? Ikea Imports Down Before New Catalog |
Tesla Gigafactory Will Face Lithium Realities |
U.S. Deficit Surges as Imports Fly In, Autos Don’t Drive Out |
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Consolidation Remains Name of the Game for Asia Shippers |
Euronav Better Than Hoped While Doing Worse Than Before |
Miami Beats LA in June Combined Air and Sea Cargo |
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
U.S. Deficit for June Could Fall on Lower Imports |
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Australia Faces Threat from U.S. Lifting BSE Ban |
K-Line Loss Likely, but No Surprise and Not Unusual |
Light in the Shipping Tunnel? |
Mexico Export Recovery Evaporates, Bodes Ill for U.S. |
More Bad News for Germany’s Exports |
Tires Drive, Rice Feeds Stabilization in Thai Exports |
Monday, July 25, 2016
Apple to Ring Up Fewer Sales as Phone Imports Likely Fell |
New Zealand Exports Slip, but Fruit and Timber Still Strong |
South Korea Auto Success to Reverse in July |
Under Armour Growth May Come Outside U.S. |
Democrats to Talk Trade, Old Deals to be Reviewed |
Japan Exports Less, But Beats Brexit in June |
No Shocks in China Electrical Steel Tariffs |
Sunday, July 24, 2016
Opportunities from Vietnam’s Weak Apparel Exports |
Orient Overseas Ships More, Earns Less |
Trump Envisages Bilateral Trade Deal World |
U.K. Exporters’ Brexit Benefit Manifests Itself |
USTR Adds Shine to WTO Materials Complaint |
Training for the Olympics – Sports Kit Preferred to Bikes, Treadmills |
Friday, July 22, 2016
Brexit Starts to Bite World Trade |
Maersk Seeks Panama Boost to East Coast Success |
Peru Close to TPP Approval, Needs More Exports |
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Boston Goes Big, Needs to Go Larger |
IMF’s Lower Trade Forecast May Still be Too High |
K+N Doing Better Than Panalpina in First Half |
Mexican Sugar Trade May Get Sour Taste from U.S. |
Samsung Winning Phone Wars in Shrinking Market |
U.S. Takes on Samsung, LG Washing Machine Imports |
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
China’s G20 Trade Facilitation Push to Continue |
Colombian Trade Opportunities Ahead |
EU Left Out of Chinese Materials Exports, Goes to WTO |
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
China Takes Away, China Gives to Houston |
CMA-CGM Close to Closing NOL Takeover |
European Carriers Win Brazil Market Share War in May |
Fleeting Respite for Container Pricing |
Republican Trade Language Leaves Lots of Room for Manoeuvre |
Monday, July 18, 2016
Cosco Ports Buck Broader Negative China Trade Trend |
Efficiency, Scale and Diversity, but Gloomier Outlook from Hapag-Lloyd |
No Respite for China Trade Troubles from Hong Kong |
Tracking Turkish Supply Chain Risk |
U.K. Reaches Out to Commonwealth for Trade Growth |
US Weapons Imports Fall, Ammunition and Parts Rise in June |
Friday, July 15, 2016
Hyundai Merchant Solves Another Problem |
Japan’s Shipyards Continue to Struggle as Shippers’ Volumes Fall |
Port of LA Volumes Drop in June, Awaits Panama Effect |
The M-pires Strike Back in June Shipping Performance |
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Brexit Dents China Export Picture |
Brexit Kick-off Closer as U.K. Politics Reshuffled |
Focus Before Scale for UASC and Hapag-Lloyd |
USTR Goes Into Bat Against Chinese Taxes |
Yesterday Detente, Today Armament in China-U.S. Steel Spat |
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
A Return to Falling U.S. Imports in June |
A3 Formed to Fight Slowing China-Australia Trade |
Burberry Strong Performance Masks Weaker U.S. Imports |
More Trade Could Calm the 9-Dash Controversy |
Philippine Exports Fall for 16th Month |
Poggenpohl, Garcima Frying Pans Kept Out of the Fire |
Monday, July 11, 2016
EU Wants More China Access, Will Need to Talk Brexit |
European Containers Surge as West Coast Sags |
Republicans Don’t Love, Don’t Hate TPP |
TTIP Talks Feel the Bernd |
Sunday, July 10, 2016
China Strips Bare Ahead of ITC Steel Decision |
Does the U.S. Need a Global Green Trade Deal? |
G20 Trade Talks Keep Rolling as China Needs More Exports |
Mercosur Progress Murky as Venezuela Struggles |
Tougher Times for U.S. Logistics Workers |
TPP Doesn’t Feel the Bern, May Not Feel the Love |
TTIP Talks Continue, But Brexit May Make Them Meaningless |
Victory for Abe Not Necessarily a Victory for TPP |
Friday, July 08, 2016
China Wants G20 to Facilitate More Trade |
German Exports Fall, More to Come |
Thursday, July 07, 2016
Logistics Employment Growth Slowest in Three Years |
Mexico Auto Exports Still on Brakes, But Lifting Off |
U.K. Exports Fall, But U.S. Shipments Keep Increasing |
Anti-trust Concerns Addressed, but What of Alliances? |
Canada’s Deficit ex U.S. Widest Since 1997 |
China May Grab Early U.K. Deal as Trade Sags |
French Exports Go on a Cruise in May |
More Disappointments For Airfreight |
New Yorkers Do It Better in May, Worse in June |
Seaborne Cargo Outperforms Air in New York |
Wider U.S. Trade Deficit in May Could Narrow in June |
Wednesday, July 06, 2016
Air Cargo Difficulties Set to Continue |
EC Cedes CETA, TTIP May Follow |
German Factory Orders Weak, U.S. Unlikely to Help Recovery |
LA Flying as Surf’s Flat for Cargo |
Terror Attacks Add to Bangladesh Apparel Woes |
Tesla Trade Data Contrasts with Ramp-up Report |
Tuesday, July 05, 2016
Australian Deficit Disappoints, Election Uncertain |
Brazil Fails to Sustain Export Recovery as Real Strengthens |
Clarksons’ Gloomy Tone Suggests Rate Recovery Unlikely |
Exports Slowed in Japan in 2Q, Shipbuilding Clouds Not Clearing |
Sea Beats Air in Miami’s May Imports |
South Korea Uses Brexit Excuse to Review EU FTA |
U.S. Exporters Get More Optimistic on Trade, Relaxed on Brexit |
Xi Tells Cosco to Get on With Greece |
Friday, July 01, 2016
No EU-U.K. Trade Talks Before 2018, Possibly |
South Korea Sails into Better Than Expected Exports |
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Australian Trade Outlook May Depend on Elections |
China Export Expectations Turn Negative |
Fuel and Bulk Jumps in 2Q, Containers Becalmed |
Malaysian Export Disappointment Bodes Ill for Chips |
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Will Independence Day Go with a Bang? |
Hiccup in Cosco’s Greek Adventure |
Norway or Bust for U.K. After Brexit |
Small Changes from Amigos as One Rides Into Sunset |
Turkish Exports Grow, But Not to the U.S. |
UASC Explains Alliance Situation |
EU Argues About Process as U.S. Exports Slow |
Hapag-Lloyd Adds Scale and Density |
If You Don’t Buy Theirs, They Won’t Buy Yours |
Japanese Auto Exports Drive On as U.S. Imports Slow |
Japanese Liners Plough Different Furrow, Investors Not Keen |
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Oakland Says No to Coal as Exports Shrink |
U.S. Puts Brakes on China Truck and Bus Tire Imports |
Amigos Have Lots to Discuss, Little to Decide as Trade Slides |
China Threatens WTO After Latest Steel War Battle |
China Truck, Bus Tire Exports to U.S. Under Spotlight |
Does TTIP Work With Brexit? |
Mexico Cuts Trade Deficit on Manufacturing, Agriculture |
South Korea Seeks to Stimulate Economy via Shipping |
U.S. Trade Deficit Wider Than Expected as Food Gobbled Up |
Monday, June 27, 2016
China Secures Russian Energy Supplies with Investment |
New Zealand Trade Strong on China Support |
Quantifying the “Special Relationship” |
Winning the Battle, Losing the War for Corrosion-Resistant Steel |
Friday, June 24, 2016
Brexit – Leaving, for a Given Value of Leaving |
Government Targets in Question as Thai Exports Fall |
Maersk Considers Options Amid Frenetic Logistics Restructuring |
U.S. Trade Deficit Likely to Widen on Imports |
World Trade Growth Edges Up, Led by LatAm and Europe |
Thursday, June 23, 2016
China Rolled Up, But Import Pressure on Steel Remains |
French Export Outlook Gloomier than Europe |
HMM Looks to Join 2M, Assuming Government Doesn’t Get Involved |
Qingdao Outperforms Shanghai in China’s Multi-Speed Economy |
Training for the Olympics, Part 1 – Bike Imports |
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Houston Lags Port Peers on Oil, China Exposure |
Why the Panama Canal is Like the iPhone |
Chinese Rail Exports Struggle as Nevada Bet Busts |
G20 Trade Barriers Rise, Might Not Fall For a While |
Japan’s Concerns About Waning Electronics Trade |
Maersk Interested in Deals, Perhaps |
Neiman Marcus Looks for Buyers as Imports Fall |
VW Struggles to Shake Emissions Scandal as AGM Votes |
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Poland Hopes for More Trade After Xi Visit |
Tesla Heads to China to Avoid Tariffs |
The Time for Korean Consolidation May Be Near |
Monday, June 20, 2016
Britain Votes, Global Trade Hopes |
Better Times Ahead for Miami After Tough April |
Sunday, June 19, 2016
Yuan Weakness Might Redress China / Japan Trade Balance |
Blame Japan’s Deficit on Earthquake, Yen |
Gun Laws Might Not Go Anywhere, But Imports Are Rising |
Is the World Bank Downbeat Enough on Indonesia? |
RCEP Talks Intensified, but Ambition Needed |
Savannah Lags LA in May, Leads Longer-Term |
Spain’s Fleeting Victory Over Italy in April |
Talks Will Continue to Lumber Along |
Time for More Tea in U.S. as India Exports Reach 35 Year High |
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Hong Kong Port Volumes Continue to Slow in May |
India’s Trade Declines Slow in May |
It Isn’t Good, These Talks on Wood |
Port of LA Has Good May, Still Faces Long Term Challenge |
RCEP Talks Continue – Japan Wants to be Heard |
U.S. Attempts to Put Chinese Solar Further in the Shade |
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
U.S. Import Carrier Performance – May 2016 |
Brazil Carrier Performance – April 2016 |
America’s Increasing Arms Imports |
China Outperforms U.S. as Target for Japanese Machine Exports |
CMA-CGM Moves from Malaysia to Singapore |
Quantifying the Trade in iPhones |
Monday, June 13, 2016
Germany and China at the Trade Table |
K-Line Faces Activist Investor |
Nippon Yusen Reduces Container-liner Exposure |
Russian Exports Fall for 21st Month, China Rises on Nickel, Wood |
Soybeans Soar as U.S. Exports to China Fall |
Friday, June 10, 2016
China Wants ME Status, EU Unlikely to Agree |
Pakistan Export Decline Due to Prices, not Volumes, of Apparel |
Peru’s Export Recovery Might Have Suddenly Stopped in May |
Philippines Exports Still Slowing, Respite Unlikely in May |
Was May Good, or Not for U.S. Importers? |
Thursday, June 09, 2016
China Exports May Gain as EU Ratifies IT Agreement |
Germany’s Exports Slow, but Better than Feared |
HMM Swaps Revenue for Equity as Price of Lower Share |
NOL CEO Recognizes Slow Reaction Caused Problems |
The China-Hong Kong Import Mystery |
U.K. Exports Grow Ahead of Brexit, Competitiveness the Issue |
World Bank Cuts Trade Outlook – New Deals Please |
Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Hasta Manzana as Mexico Cuts Anti-Dumping Duties |
As Oil Prices Break Through $50, Attention May Turn to Bunker Fuel |
Detente Emerges in Steel at U.S. / China Talks |
Government Intervenes to Save Korean Shippers |
India Cotton Exports Dwindle as Drought Bites |
Is Optimism Due in China Trade? |
Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Mexican Automakers Face Continued Export Decline |
French Trade Deficit Widens, Could Have Gone Further in May |
Commodity Bulls Charge, Container Rates Trampled |
Falling NY, NJ Container Shipments Might Have Bounced in May |
Orange Juice Blows Up as Colin Storms In |
U.S. Calls for Steel Restraint, China Already Cutting Exports |
Where are the India-U.S. Trade Opportunities? |
Monday, June 06, 2016
Canada Drives Ahead as Flows Slow |
China’s Exports to Fall, U.S. May Be Unusual Outlier |
German Export Orders Slow in April, May Might be Better |
Logistics the Place to be as U.S. Jobs Disappoint |
New Supplier for Tesla May Supercharge Imports |
U.S. Goods Deficit Widens in April, More to Come |
What’s at Stake in U.S. / China Talks? |
Friday, June 03, 2016
Can Global Deal Keep Solar Power Shining? |
Convict Labor Concerns Lead to CBP Restrictions |
Logistics Employment Increases for 77 Months, Growth Rate Slows |
Malaysian Exports Grow in April, Could Have Continued in May |
No OPEC Deal, But Bunker Fuel Costs Still Rising |
Turkish Exports Jump, Led By Raw Materials and Weaker Lira |
Thursday, June 02, 2016
Australian Exports Break Losing Streak, Deficit Lower Than Expected |
Brazil Exports Gain on Weaker Currency in May |
China Import Growth to Support Regional Suppliers in OECD Forecast |
Does Final Trade Data Have Anything to Teach Us? |
ISM Expectations for U.S. Export Growth Continue |
OPEC Struggle to Reach Agreement, Shippers’ Costs Rise |
Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Juice Buyers Squeezed as Rain Falls |
Air Cargo Growth Continues Yet Lags Capacity |
China Export Expectations Remain Just About Positive |
China, Brazil May Be Foiled in Aluminum Investigation |
South Korean Exports Slowing at Slower Rate |
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Where Will French Port Strikes Strike? |
Australian Export Success in 1Q Might Have Slowed in April |
EC Looks for TTIP Affirmation as Germany Squabbles |
Frontline Strikes Positive Note for Oil Tankers |
Hyundai Merchant Marine Continues Debt Restructuring |
Thailand Commits to China- and U.S.-Led Trade Deals |
Trade Data Shows VW’s Scandal Starting to Weigh Less |
Turkey’s Exports Slow, U.S. Shipments a Bright Spot |
Friday, May 27, 2016
Saudi Aramco Exports Rising, Supplier List Narrowing |
A Turtle is For Christmas, Not for Releases |
Are Bulbs Growing in Spring? |
Mexico Fruit Exports May Rise on APHIS Decision |
Mexico Trade Deal with EU Inches Nearer |
South Africa Auto Exporters Hope to Avoid Strikes |
Thursday, May 26, 2016
ArcelorMittal Tries to Save SA Jobs as Steel Trade Slows |
Corrosion-Resistant Steel Case Nears Conclusion, Imports Falling |
G7 to Talk Trade, U.S. Elections Probably Matter More |
Mexico’s Deficit Widens as Autos Slow |
U.S. Looks into Ammonium Sulfate as Imports Rise 45% |
U.S. Shows That Predicting Deficits is Hard |
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
World Trade Grows 0.2% in March, Emerging Europe a Stand-out |
G7 Currency Controversy Likely After China Cuts Rate |
Perfect Trade Data is a Myth – Even Governments Get it Wrong |
Rice Underdone, Tires Deflated as Thai Exports Fall in April |
Time for Tea, Coffee Breaks as FAO Seeks to Support Exporters |
TTIP Talks Continue, GMOs Still a Dispute Area |
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
U.S. Trade Deficit May Expand on 8% Goods Import Growth |
Brazil Seeks to Reform Mercosur, Restart Growth |
China Seeks to Further Formalize Trade Relations With U.S. Pre-Trump |
Costa Rica a Regional Bright Spot as Exports Grow 11% in April |
Iran Port Deal Provides Alternative Destination for India’s Exports |
U.K. Sees Reduction in Imports Immediately if Brexit Vote Passed |
Monday, May 23, 2016
CMA CGM Results Fall for 1Q, Volumes Start 2Q Slowly |
ITC Extends Plate Steel Investigation, But Imports Already Falling |
Japan Exports Fall 10% in April, More to Come in May |
Venezuela’s Crisis and Declining Trade |
Friday, May 20, 2016
The Rise and (Possible) Fall of Athleisure |
Bayer and Monsanto Join AgChem Supplier Consolidation Party |
Angry Birds Will be Furious if Toy Sales Don’t Beat Previous Peaks |
China Cosco Show Improvements in Yangtze, Pearl River Port Throughput |
G7 Have Plenty of Trade to Discuss as Currencies, TPP and TTIP in Focus |
Obama’s Vietnam Visit to Highlight Trade, Human Rights Issues |
Taiwan Looks to Offset Exposure to Declining China Exports |
Thursday, May 19, 2016
ITC Sees Major Gain in Trade with TPP Partners, Eventually |
Soybean Exports Have Stellar Start to 2016 in Brazil |
Tesla Raises New Money for Growth, Shipments Show Signs of Life |
Trade Weighs on Likelihood of U.S. Interest Rate Rise |
Which Industries are Exposed to Brazilian Political Turmoil? |
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Demand for Liquefied Gas Rising, Except Where it Matters |
Exports help Japanese Growth Beat Expectations, Imports a Drag |
Fewer Empty Container from Northwest Suggests Brighter Export Outlook |
Myanmar Trade Sanctions Relaxations Start, Still a Very Long Way to Go |
U.S. Commerce Affirms Steel Dumping, But Imports Already Falling |
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Singapore Container-based Exports Fall 7.9%, Trend May Accelerate |
TTIP Draft Assessment Suggests U.S. Wins on Export Growth |
ITC Report Due on TPP, Maybe it Doesn’t Matter Much |
Oil Price Rally Reaches 84%, Shipping Fuel Costs Rise |
Seven Countries Steel Themselves to Be Rolled Over by ITC |
Monday, May 16, 2016
Capacity Extension at Port of LA as Volumes Handled Rise |
Exports Drag on Israeli Growth in 1Q, April Still Looking Weak |
Global Container Fleet Growth Set to Continue by Going Large |
Indian Exports Slide, U.S.-bound Volumes Fall 23% |
Venezuela Pledges 50% Import Cut in 2016 |
Friday, May 13, 2016
EU Assesses TTIP So Far, Still Unpopular Deal |
Lufthansa Seeks Cathay Growth Glitter in HK/Asia Deal |
Port of LA Volumes Continue to Recover in April, China Jumps Nearly 20% |
Resurgence of Steel Imports a Concern for U.S. Steel |
THE Alliance Rises, Will the 2M-pire Strike Back? |
Thursday, May 12, 2016
China Cosco Spends More on European Ports |
Deutsche Post Earnings Better Than Expected, Freight Volumes May Disappoint |
EU Doesn’t Yet See China as a Market Economy |
Third Big Container Alliance Announcement Due |
Will Japanese Exporters Continue to Suffer? |
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Colombia Diversifies Coal Exports |
Philippine Exports Fall in March, May Keep Falling |
Staples, Office Depot Suppliers Breathe Sigh of Relief |
Third Big Trade Alliance on the Way |
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Navigator Gas 1Q16 Results Fall on Utilization, Maintenance |
U.S. Congress Back in Session, MTB May Come Soon but TPP Unlikely |
Mexican Auto Exports Drop in April |
The Wilmington, NC to U.K. Trade Route – Can You Dig It? |
U.K. Exports Face Tough Times |
Monday, May 09, 2016
German Factory Export Orders Rise in March |
Is Maersk Delivering on its Targets? |
MISC Shares Tumbles as Asset Lives Cut |
Waterborne Job Situation May be Improving |
Everyone Getting Ready to Rumble in Steel |
Sunday, May 08, 2016
China Struggles to Make Progress in Trade in April |
Friday, May 06, 2016
Visualizing Tesla’s Supplier Network |
Malaysian Exports Disappoint in March |
India Steel Imports Fall 15.5% in April |
Canadian Wildfires Spread, Oil and Exports at Risk |
Amazon Expands Air Freight Capacity |
Thursday, May 05, 2016
U.S. Trade Deficit Narrows in March, Which Isn’t Necessarily Good |
Canada Trade Deficit Wider than Expected in March on Revisions, Energy |