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How Foreign-Trade Zones can help create tariff mitigation, resilience, and sustainability

Foreign-Trade Zones

Can Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZs) help you reduce duties and taxes while also streamlining your logistics and distribution processes?  Here's a look at this increasingly popular import strategy.            

Full Story:  Supply Chain Xchange (09/02)  

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AI Procurement: Strategic Edge Amid Tariffs and Disruptive Uncertainty  

Small Business    

AI is reshaping procurement by enabling to respond to global supply chain disruptions, such as tariffs and labor shortages, writes Gauray Tewari, the founder of Omega Venture Partners.  By leveraging AI, organizations can integrate data from multiple sources, automate complex decision-making and transform procurement from a cost center into a value-generation function, Tewari writes.                

Full story: Forbes (08/27)  

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Preparing for 2027: How to Handle the End of De Minimis 

E2Open's John Lash explains how the rule's end could impact importers, sourcing strategies, and compliance risks.  

Businesses relying on duty-free, low-value shipments need to act now.  Read the Questions and Answers on steps to prepare your business.         

Full story:  Supply Chain 247 (07/24)

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