Supply Chain Risk: What to Watch Over the Next 60 Days

Season 4, Episode 37: Keith Prather: Dr. Kuehl’s partner at Armada; talks to members about the continuity of the supply chain and what is impacting the supply chain going into 2025?

ASA Chief Economist Dr. Chris Kuehl is out this week, but we are still back with a special economic update podcast hosted by Keith Prather: Managing Director at Armada. In Season 4, Episode 37 (8:32 in length), Keith talks to members about the supply chain.    

• The port strike… are we still expecting to see this on January 15th? 
• What do we know about negotiations on this strike?       
• Tariff risk, is that speeding up?    
• From 2016 – 2020, what were the effects of tariffs?  
• Imposing and impacts of tariffs, what does that do to inflation and the supply chain?    
• What steps should ASA members take to protect the supply chain?  
• The Red Sea and targeted ships, why has the U.S. only been playing defense?  
• Who can sail through the Red Sea? Why has this stripped global capacity freight?     
• Inbound freight price is up 80-95% year over year, why??   
• Should we see this threat come down with commercial freight in Q1?
• As of now, products are still flowing… should we still be concerned?

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