Supply Chain Research

Chile’s Vice Minister of Trade, Rodrigo Benitez, has stated that the recently launched U.S.-China trade deal will help reverse declining exports as “the better the news from that situation the better for our economy”. The government nonetheless “wants to diversify exports”. Exporters have the flexibility to do so given Chile’s wide range of free trade deals. Copper exports have been at risk from the U.S.-China trade war, though there was actually little impact with exports of copper to China having surged 16.8% year over year in the three months to Oct. 31. BHP’s exports of copper catho...