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America’s imports are not signaling a recession, at least not yet. Inbound volumes are rising from the bottom.
After a bounce in January, containerized imports could drop this month to the lowest level since May 2020.
Holiday retail sales to climb 6% to 8%, NRF says
“For years, we have talked about the lack of available data to help with port operations. Ports are basically a black box when it comes to available information,” says the National Retail Federation’s vice president of supply chain and customs policy, regarding issues with global supply chains.
An IBM and NRF survey of consumers finds that hybrid shopping options are becoming the default preference for many.
Booming sales, thin inventories and more stimulus on the way provide the backdrop for potentially setting a new record for retail container imports in 2021. The National Retail Federation raised its outlook again for loaded containers landing at U.S. ports in the first half of the year.
Shippers responded to the last round of tariff increases on imports from China by front loading containers into U.S. ports in July, the National Retail Federation said. After bottoming out […]
