US–China Trade War: Tariffs, Phase One, and Ongoing Impact
In July 2018, the United States imposed its first round of tariffs on goods from the People's Republic under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, citing what the...
Supply Chain
Examines how trade wars, tariffs, IoT logistics, and lifecycle costs reshape global supply chains.
China's 2060 neutrality reshapes global supply chains
In September 2020, President Xi Jinping told the UN General Assembly that China would aim for peak CO2 emissions before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060. Those two dates, enshrined...
How Tariffs Reshaped Apple's Supply Chain and iPhone Prices
Between 2018 and 2020, the US-China trade war under President Donald Trump threatened Apple's cost structure directly. The company faced levies on its most important devices: Apple Watch, AirPods, iPhone,...
IoT logistics: RFID, GPS sensors drive real-time tracking
The Internet of Things in logistics means attaching RFID tags, GPS units, or environmental monitors to physical assets and feeding that data into a system that operators and customers can...
Clothing industry's full lifecycle cost: 10% of emissions
The global clothing industry accounts for an estimated 2% to 8% of all greenhouse gas emissions, a range that spans a 2018 UNFCCC report and a 2020 World Economic Forum...
Namburi: US-China trade war reshapes tech supply chains
The US-China trade war began in earnest in July 2018 with US Section 301 tariffs on Chinese goods. It forced multinational technology firms to rethink supply chains that took decades...
Retail Robots: What Works, What Doesn't, and What Comes Next
Retail robots are not science fiction. Nor are they a revolution that landed in 2024. A narrow set of tasks has become genuinely automated. Everything else hinges on a merchant's...
Hurricane Florence cost $24B in supply chain losses
Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on September 14, 2018, then stalled over the Carolinas and dumped catastrophic rainfall. Moody's Analytics put the total cost between $38...
The Lifecycle Environmental Cost of a Smartphone
Smartphones look clean. They sit in a pocket, draw a few watts, and last two or three years. But the carbon and ecological weight of the device is almost entirely...
