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Consumer confidence continues to be strong in retail sector

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As the 2018 Retail Supply Chain Conference concludes this week in Phoenix, leading industry indicators point to continued consumer confidence. The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index unexpectedly surged 6.5 Both were the best since 2001, consistent with the tight labor market with unemployment at 4.1%

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CBP working to curb illicit e-commerce traffic | Full Stories – Caption as the Content | Full

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Perez told attendees at the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America’s Government Affairs Conference in Washington, D.C., 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, CBP established CTPAT (Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism) as part of its layered strategy for overseeing global supply chain security.

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CBP working to curb illicit e-commerce traffic

247 Customs Broker

Perez told attendees at the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America’s Government Affairs Conference in Washington, D.C., 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, CBP established CTPAT (Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism) as part of its layered strategy for overseeing global supply chain security.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

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As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. Magazine article) as a goliath looking to take on the entrenched "David" shipping industry. The first of 14 residential shipping container complexes now built in the UK is completed in 2001. . .