Southern California Faces Logistics Shift Under Tariffs
If you have domestic production and you’re going to move products into Southern California because you want to supply customers here, you do have a choice.
If you have domestic production and you’re going to move products into Southern California because you want to supply customers here, you do have a choice.
Tariffs continue to cause great stress in the financial markets and with certain industries. In fact, it divides manufacturers from distributors, logistics, and goods movement industries largely dependent on imports and trade.
Concerns over the trade war that erupted when Trump announced higher tariffs against most U.S. trade partners this month rippled across the country - including the Inland Empire, the region sometimes called the warehouse of the western United States. But the Inland region might not take as large an [...]
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