Supply Chain Research

The U.S. government received fewer trade policy infraction complaints in August than in July with five cases covering three intellectual property issues, a COVID-19 related fact finding request and a petition to revisit safeguards for washing machines. The safeguard request was submitted by Whirlpool to further review tariffs and quotas put in place in Jan. 2018. U.S. imports of washers fell by 20.2% in Q2 with the decline slowing to just 2.6% in July. While shipments from Europe and Canada / Mexico have continued to slide, those from China increased by 3.1% in Q2. Looking at U.S. seabor...