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United States: Any Port in a Storm: USTR to Investigate Chinese Shipbuilding Subsidies

Import and Trade Remedies

The petition cited specific conduct alleged to target the maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding sector, including “by directing mergers between favored state-owned companies, disapproving alliances by foreign competitors, denying berthing rights to foreign-owned ships, controlling freight rates and capacity allocations, supporting the development (..)

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Another possible challenge for DoD’s $19B moving contract: No movers

Federal News Network

Under GHC, movers would have to find ways to simultaneously pay them the hourly rates the SCA demands while also compensating them with a cut of the tariffs that govern all other moves. We’ve had negotiations with TRANSCOM to adjust for the inflation that’s occurred. We had so many shipments screwed up.

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An In-Depth Examination of Inflation Relief for a Government Contractor

Procurement Notes

1] Similarly, the BLS September 14 Producer Price Index (“PPI”) Summary states that “[o]n an unadjusted basis, the index for final demand moved up 8.7 So, for many contractors, relief will be best achieved by relying on an already incorporated EPA clause, re-negotiating an EPA clause, or proposing to bilaterally add an EPA clause.