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The Social-Distancing Dilemma: Logistics

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Covid19 caused the whole world to change the way humans interact. To prevent infection, one needs to keep one’s distance.  And that, simple at it may seem, changed everything - especially when it came to logistics. Nearly every importer would agree that they have experienced major challenges or obstacles in...

China Performance Group: What We Do

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What exactly is it that we do?  I mean, we know what we do, but how do we know that you know?  This is a marketing issue that any business must confront.  There is no point being good at something if no-one knows about it—you must get the message out. ...

Christmas 2020

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A few days ago I got a message from a friend cheerfully saying “371 days until Christmas”.  It kind of feels that way does it not?  Christmas this year is different. We know this because Thanksgiving was different. Christmas, socially speaking, will undoubtedly be much of the same, many of...

The Social-Distancing Dilemma: Quality Assurance

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We first heard of the pandemic when it hit China back in January 2020.  It was immediately clear that it would have a big impact on supply chain management.   Ensuring responsible working conditions that met safety regulations and prevented contagion was not going to be easy. Many importers turned...

Covid-19 Review – How China Coped

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It’s been 11 months now since the original emergence of COVID-19 in China. And now the US and much of the world is experiencing a resurgence; a “second wave.” Many of our readers continue working from home and our own office in New Jersey has been closed since mid-March due...

Happy Thanksgiving from the CPG Sourcing Team

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I think everyone will agree that 2020 stands out as a crazy year, definitely one for the history books.  And here we are at Thanksgiving, about one year since COVID19 started and about ten months since it started to have a direct effect on us all.   Despite this past year’s...

China Sourcing: Overcoming the Negative Perception

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Lately, negative feelings about doing business with China have noticeably increased.  We note this is happening not just here in the USA, but in many other places in the world, including Europe, Australia, South America and South East Asian countries like Malaysia.  The reason this has developed this way goes...

US Made vs. China Buy

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American made vs China bought has been a hot topic as of late. With the recent political climate, the trade war and tariffs, more and more importers are looking to move their supply chains home. But is that really in their best interests?  We came across an interesting analysis by...

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