The Trade: US, Japan in trade agreement

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Welcome to The Trade, your Saturday morning update on the global supply chain.

This is Stuart Chirls, staff writer for FreightWaves, American Shipper and Trains.com, and editor of The Trade. Here are the top stories in global trade for the week.

Trump reaches trade deals with Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines

President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Tuesday that they agreed to a deal that will include a 15% tariff on all U.S. imports from Japan.

“It all unraveled quickly”: Family-owned business laments tariff and trade chaos

While Trump wages trade war, it’s small- and medium-sized businesses that are in figurative trenches

Trans-Pacific shippers’ turn to pause as box rates end slide

Shippers are stepping back from trans-Pacific trade amid trade uncertainty and tariff fatigue

Trump pick grilled on supply chain strategy

Rutherford vows to step up congestion monitoring to avoid supply chain delays as head of DOT’s freight office

NATO warns ports vulnerable to ‘unprecedented’ cyber threats

New policy brief specifically cites attacks by Russia, Iran, China state-sponsored actors

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