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USDA data shows U.S. soybean exports may stagnate in 2025–26 despite the new China purchase deal, as rising Brazil and Argentina shipments and narrower price advantages offset potential gains.
A new Descartes benchmark study reveals growing uncertainty for forwarders and brokers — and shows how tech investment, AI adoption, and customer-centric digital tools are widening the competitive gap in 2025.
China’s trade surplus with Europe has overtaken its surplus with the U.S. for the first time, exposing European industry to mounting competitive pressure from an increasingly dominant Chinese manufacturing and export powerhouse.
“With six weeks to go, we are within reach of the 10 million container unit mark for the year,” Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka said at a media briefing on November 18th.
The Port of Long Beach defied early 2025 trade fears, maintaining near-record cargo levels thanks to front-loaded shipments and strong logistics performance, though U.S. soybean exports and select consumer goods saw notable year-over-year drops.
U.S. harbor trucking faces deepening challenges as new 2025 tariffs, freight recession pressures, and California clean air mandates strain fleets and drivers, warns Harbor Trucking Association CEO Robert Loya.
The twists and turns in the Trump administration’s trade policy and the saga of tariffs on and tariffs off have created a climate of uncertainty in the global economy throughout 2025, exacerbating what was already a period of low growth, and in some cases, one of stagnation.