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Brazil’s anti-dumping investigation into U.S. polyethylene has gone through enough reversals over the past eighteen months to leave most of the market uncertain about where things actually stand. After Braskem filed a dumping complaint in 2024, Brazil imposed provisional ADD measures in August 2025, and the preliminary numbers came out at $199.04 per metric ton for U.S.-origi...

Over the last few years, the logistics industry has faced one crisis after another.

First came the Covid pandemic. Ports became congested, containers were unavailable, and global supply chains slowed down dramatically. Then the Russia–Ukraine war created new uncertainty across trade routes, energy markets, and transportation costs.

Now, the conflict between the ...

The worldwide oil supply chain continues to experience a volatile period in which oil prices are fluctuating weekly (or in some cases, daily). For the first two months of the Iran-U.S. conflict, rising oil prices were a problem for many reasons. Now, as the war drags on into May, there are new questions about where the U.S. – and the world – go from here regarding the oil mar...

The geopolitical tensions in the Strait of Hormuz are creating direct and multifaceted impacts on global logistics and maritime transportation. Disruptions on this critical route, through which the world’s oil trade passes, are creating significant pressure on supply chains not only regionally but also globally.

Changes in direct routings to destinations caused the red...

Earlier this week, this site reported on how many companies have replaced worries about new tariffs with worries whether they will receive tariff refunds, after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed many of President Donald Trump’s tariffs earlier this year.

Now, President Trump is making tariff news again with his latest announcement: Trump is raising tariffs on vehicles ma...