Southeast Asia Moves up the Global Production Value Chain
By Kawal Preet, President Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa, FedEx Express
For decades, export manufacturing has played a critical role in powering socioeconomic development across Southeast Asia. The region has continued to show remarkable and sustained growth in recent years despite numerous headwinds. This is creating robust demand for logistics to support the needs of the region’s…
A B20, the Business at OECD (BIAC), and the International Organisation of Employers joint paper has been supported by the CBI to improve trade finance access.
According to the latest reports, the CBI has shown its positive concern to a B20, the Business at OECD (BIAC), and the International Organization of Employers joint paper on further developing access to trade finance, which holds a crucial role in supporting organizations understanding their export goals and pushing endeavors towards development.
What is the B20?
The Business Twenty (B20) is the official business community engagement forum consisting of a Group of Twenty (G20) developed economies. As the representative of the private sector to the G20, the B20 demonstrates the worldwide business community across all G20 member states and all financial areas. This paper created under the Italian B20 Presidency will subsequently establish a significant framework to advance policy improvement in this significant region.
What Is Covered In The Paper?
The paper covers three recommendations to develop access to trade finance, creating on the idea of a Global Value Chain (GVC) passport to support SMEs developed under the B20 Saudi Arabia Presidency last year:
1. Encourage the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) as a globally unique identifier standard to provide more successful counterparty proof and check on a worldwide scale.
2. Lawfully perceive computerized documentation to empower optimal usage of digital documents in trade finance operations, assisting with eliminating friction, as well as financial and environmental expenses.
Pfizer Supply Exec Says Company Hopes To Ship 2 Billion Vaccine Doses This Year
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Executive in charge of Pfizer’s The global supply chain said on Sunday that it expected the pharmaceutical giant to deliver two billion doses of its COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year, enough to vaccinate one billion people against coronovirus.
Mike McDermott, a president at Pfizer, Told the Associated Press On…
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Experts from trade and industry are of the view that if Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) have to address technology issues if they want to be a part of the global value chain.
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An officer monitors activities at the Tanjung Emas Seaport in Semarang, Central Java.…
Narendra Modi’s bold “Make in India” campaign has now attained worldwide recognition as the principal policy upon which India can catapult to higher growth.
The “Make in India” premise, however, is built on shaky foundations. Indian labor laws are draconian and reveal the legacy of India’s socialist history. Internal supply chains are lacking. Land reform remains ephemeral. Infrastructure and…