Your warehouse and fulfillment operations -and the people, partners, and processes that make them run -have just gotten monumentally more important, because a series of convergent events are raising national supply chain costs at every touch. Let's unpack the why. In the industrial and manufacturing sectors, added costs on materials and products impacted by ongoing trade friction have filtered all the way through to various demand points, often increasing incrementally at each supply chain waypoint. Prices will heat up this summer as tariff increases-as high as 100% in some cases-are imposed on hundreds of inbound items from at least 28 European Union states. Experts estimate this import value may exceed $21 billion of products -everything from helicopter parts to grape brandy.
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