While tight supplies of semiconductors are set to ease later this year, the next bottleneck is likely to come from growing demand for analog chips, which are increasingly being used in automobiles as they become electrified and autonomous.
U.S. supply chains have a chance to normalize after retailers replenish inventories next quarter, even if peak summer demand arrives sooner than usual, according to Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka.
The European Union unveiled its plan to use its economic leverage to attract large semiconductor producers like Intel Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., but reaching the full 45 billion euro ($51.4 billion) price tag depends on a controversial and untested method of subsidizing production.
A group of American truckers are seeking to import a Canadian movement to protest against vaccine mandates, with thousands of members on social media pledging to bring the demonstration to Washington, D.C.
Surging prices of the raw materials needed for your refrigerators, automobiles, window frames and plumbing show no signs of abating as America’s supply chain crisis spills into another year.
The helter-skelter playing out on U.S. factory floors from labor and supply shortages, transportation bottlenecks and the coronavirus looks likely to persist into the second half of the year.
Canada’s capital city remained under a state of emergency Monday as police tried to rein in protests against vaccine mandates and COVID-19 restrictions.
President Biden will require large federal infrastructure projects to use project labor agreements, a collective bargaining measure the administration says will tilt the rules toward companies with higher-paid workers.
A new U.S. requirement that went into effect January 22 requires any essential workers crossing the border into the U.S. to be vaccinated. And that includes truckers.
The first major update of U.S. international ocean-shipping laws in more than two decades has been introduced in the Senate, a significant step toward passage after passing the House with bipartisan support in December.