We have agreed to address a set of next-generation trade issues, including removing frictions in the global supplychains, helping small and medium-size enterprises grow and better plug into the global trading system, and adopting smart, market-oriented innovation policies.
Although barges can transport significant quantities of ethanol, the U.S. waterway system is overcrowded and antiquated, often leading to long delays and disruptions that wreak havoc on supplychains.
Because there currently is no recognized system to verify that the sources of minerals from the DRC are conflict free, efforts to secure supplychains have led to a de facto embargo of minerals from the region while such systems are being developed.