Export Controls

Tariffs, trade restrictions, and new export-control rules made 2025 one of the most complex years in global logistics, forcing shippers to rethink sourcing, compliance, and cost structures. As 2026 approaches, experts urge companies to invest in people, processes, and technology to strengthen compliance programs, automate trade management, and stay resilient amid ongoing regulatory uncertainty.

The impetus for this planned action, Trump said, was due to China taking what he described as an extraordinarily aggressive position on trade, in the form of imposing large scale export controls on nearly every product made in China and some not made in China, including rare earth minerals.