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    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      News in-depthBangladesh
      Bangladesh garment exporters say western brands not paying ‘ethical prices’

      Protesting workers shut factories after minimum wage increase fails to meet soaring inflation

      Police disperse garment industry workers who continue to protest on the street demanding a wage raise in Dhaka
    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      Deforestation
      Food industry calls for more time to implement EU deforestation rules

      Producers and traders call for more details and say rules will fail to deliver environmental benefits

      This aerial view shows people walking on a deforested and burning area of the Amazon rainforest in Autazes, Brazil
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Indian business & finance
      Martha Stewart backs India outsourcing as companies rethink China supply chains

      Home goods entrepreneur says India is ‘nice fit’ for manufacturing her branded textiles

      Martha Stewart, right, with Welspun Living chief Dipali Goenka
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      Container shipping
      Shipping industry steers container production away from China

      Push comes after pandemic highlighted reliance on manufacturers in world’s second-largest economy

      Containers are loaded onto a ship at Tien Sa port in Da Nang city, Vietnam
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      Aerospace & Defence
      Boom time for the $110bn a year industry keeping airlines flying

      Repair and maintenance specialists are working overtime as supply chain issues persist

      Workers perform maintenance work to a jet engine
    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      Willy Shih
      What the ubiquitous syringe tells us about US supply chains

      Domestically made products like syringes currently cost more than those produced in China

      A BD needle ready for use
    • Monday, 23 October, 2023
      Airlines
      Aircraft rental costs soar as industry struggles with manufacturing delays

      Leasing companies have been able to increase their rates significantly for the most in-demand jets

    • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
      Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
      Countries are seeking economic security in a turbulent world

      The EU and others are pondering how to deal with value-chain disruption and geopolitical rivalry

      A worker in a clean suit assembles an ASML photolithography machine in the Netherlands,
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Container shipping
      Drug gangs have infiltrated shipping supply chains, warns Maersk executive

      EU unveils plans for more co-operation between its ports in crackdown

      Customs officers search for drugs in a container in Antwerp, Belgium in July 2023
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Special ReportUS Manufacturing
      Worries over skills gap overshadow US jobs boom

      Companies are working in-house and with colleges to boost technical expertise

      Employees wearing cleanroom suits walk beneath Automated Material Handling Systems (AMHS) vehicle robots moving along tracks on the ceiling inside the GlobalFoundries semiconductor manufacturing facility in Malta, New York
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      Gillian Tett
      How rising conflict is reshuffling global supply chains

      Research by the Bank for International Settlements shows goods are subject to increasingly complex delivery routes

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of shipping containers of different sizes and colours tumbling down
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      Christopher Tang
      Why China ‘de-risking’ brings its own business risks

      Professor’s briefing: companies must consider the implications of shifting supply chains

      Chinese customers look at iPhones at an Apple store
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      News in-depthSemiconductors
      Taiwanese semiconductor suppliers target Europe’s next-generation factories

      Chemical companies in Asia have cornered cutting-edge chipmaking market as EU supply chain atrophied

      An employee of German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon holds a 300mm test wafer at the company’s plant in Dresden, Germany
    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      UK retail industry
      UK retailers urge ministers to align with EU on new ‘deforestation-free’ rules

      Leading supermarkets call on government to speed up legislation or put exports at risk

      A palm oil plantation in Indonesia
    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      News in-depthNikkei Asia
      Malaysia aims for chip comeback as Intel, Infineon and more pile in

      South-east Asian country aims to regain semiconductor edge as companies seek supply chain stability

      A Malaysian worker in a chip company
    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      Chinese business & finance
      German manufacturers resist trade tensions in China’s Mittelstand enclave

      A cluster of companies in a city near Shanghai faces rising competition and slowing Chinese growth

      Row of buildings with red-tiled roofs in Taicang
    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      EU economy
      EU payment rules shake-up will prompt price rises, retailers warn

      Brussels plan aimed at aiding SMEs will also lead businesses to source more goods from China, say industry groups

      A shopper pushes a trolley outside a Castorama store in Lille, France
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Renewable energy
      US warns green transition raises ‘complex’ China security concerns

      Beijing is prepared to weaponise its control of mineral sectors vital to renewable power, says energy secretary Jennifer Granholm

      US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Solar power
      Solar supply chains must diversify away from China, warns EDP

      Energy company turns to alternative supply sources after US import legislation causes delays

      Workers on a photovoltaic panel module production line at a factory in China’s Guizhou province
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Markets InsightPaul Donovan
      Is China exporting deflation to the rest of the world?

      Profit margins in supply chains will limit the spread of downward pressure on prices through exports

      The Yangshan container port in Shanghai,
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      World Trade Organization
      WTO warns about fragmentation of global trade into allied blocs

      Countries are switching supply chains to less efficient exporters and risking higher costs and conflict, says report

      WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Chinese business & finance
      Tech suppliers in China skip seasonal hiring rush amid weak demand

      Lack of usually lucrative temp work this summer also blamed on shifting supply chains

      Employees during lunch at a Foxconn plant in Henan province, China
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      News in-depthTechnology sector
      Supply chain shortages delay tech sector’s AI bonanza

      Server production hampered by tight stocks of Nvidia processors and other components

      A close-up view of Nvidia’s H100 AI processor
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      Simon Fraser
      Business deserves deeper insight into the security threats the UK faces

      Occasional feel-good meetings between handpicked CEOs and top ministers are not enough

      Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and US President Joe Biden speak at the start of the meeting of the North Atlantic Council on the first day of the 2023 NATO Summit on July 11
    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      News in-depthFoxconn Technology Group
      iPhone maker Foxconn’s cautious pivot to India shows limits of ‘China plus one’

      Apple supplier still relies on Chinese plants for 75% of global operations

      A worker at the mobile phone plant of Rising Stars Mobile India, a unit of Foxconn Technology, in Sriperumbudur, India
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