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...EU countries have voted to pass a landmark supply chain law that would make companies responsible for environmental and human rights abuses, but only after the number of companies it will affect was cut...
...Germany has already adopted its own supply chain law....
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...China and Russia have pledged to maintain “industrial supply chain stability” just days after US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen warned Beijing against supporting Moscow’s war effort....
...The state-owned Global Times, best known for its nationalist bashing of the US, reported the increased investment pledge and quoted Cook as saying: “There’s no supply chain in the world that’s more critical...
...These shifts have led some companies to remove the UK from their supply chains....
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...Trappier warned Europe still had a tendency to buy from the US defence industry, struggled to act nimbly and had years of work ahead of it to improve a supply chain hurt by years of defence budget cuts —...
...EU countries are set to vote on a significantly watered-down law holding companies liable for human rights and environmental abuses in their supply chain, as part of a last-ditch effort to persuade Germany...
...A basic level of accountability to the people in those supply chains seems only fair....
...Fortescue is one of the largest single companies at the end of many German groups’ supply chains....
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...Zhu said expansion plans were guided by a “global-local” strategy of combining local engineers, factories and research centres with innovations from the Chinese supply chain....
...While there was no fresh funding available, ministers also said they would “explore the case for further supply chain financing interventions for the UK’s most critical supply chains”....
...China has been a major player in global supply chains, dominating the technology and electronics industries....
...Malaysia’s semiconductor industry has capitalised on companies shifting supply chains to protect against geopolitical risk, a strategy known as “China plus one”....
...Sema, which does not include Chinese companies, worries that Chinese manufacturers in the US will undercut players by manipulating their well-established global supply chains....
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...We’ll see what happens, but expect some supply chain squeezes and slightly higher prices over time....
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