In the current climate of “economic populism,” buyers, sellers and their supply chains have an opportunity to step up and cope with major challenges through cooperation, transparency and flexibility.
Huawei needs to be able to keep buying components from American suppliers, particularly semiconductors and optical gear, so that it can sell equipment to customers in Asia, Africa and beyond.
The purchase comes after President Trump said that China, the top soybean importer, had agreed to buy a total of 5 million tons of U.S. supplies following last week’s talks in Washington.
The country holding the world’s largest reserves of lithium says it’s one step closer to becoming a manufacturing hub for rechargeable batteries used in electric vehicles.
Concerns about quality control and data integrity have focused on companies in India and China, where more and more ingredients used in medicine for the U.S. are being made. But those concerns aren’t limited to overseas factories, according to a year-long investigation into FDA’s regulation of the generic-drug industry.