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-July 17, 2008 |
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The
Numbers Worth Knowing this Week in Supply
Chain and Logistics |
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This Week: New Milk Jugs Deliver Transportation "Moo"-La; Dow Chemical Says Surcharges Aren't Just for Carriers; Some Companies Find Losses, not Savings, from China Sourcing; Free Trade Agreements Finally Turn a Profit for US
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33%
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The number of companies that in actually incurred higher total supply chain costs by moving production to China, according to a recent PriceWaterhouseCoopers study.
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$500 million
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The trade surplus the US has so far in 2007 with countries with which is has free trade agreements. This is the first time ever that this measure has moved into a net positive for the US, and compares, for example, to a trade deficit with free trade country partners of $41 billion in 2002.
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