Supply Chain Research

A year of turmoil in global trade policy, the logistics sector and industrial supply chains provided fodder for over 1,600 Panjiva research articles in 2018. Boiling those down to one per month based on readership revealed 12 significant events in 5 broad themes. (1) The most significant was the U.S.-China trade war where initial details appeared in March but weren’t fully implemented until September and have yet to be fully settled following the December agreement reached by President Xi and President Trump. (2) U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum raised challenges from March onwards whi...