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On Friday, the White House announced agreement between China and the U.S. for a tariff reduction on $30 billion worth of goods. Saturday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed the agreement. [...]

This is a guest post by Jai Akash. [Editor’s Note] Universal Cargo accepts guest article submissions for publication in our blog. We do not charge people or businesses to submit. Universal [...]

This is a guest post by Harper Lane. When a shipment arrives at your facility, where it sits and how it’s protected can determine whether your business gains or loses money. High-value [...]

Freight Rates behave differently this decade than they did through previous periods. The prices shippers pay climb, even skyrocket, seemingly with every disruptive event. But freight rates [...]

2026 started as a promising year for shippers when it came to freight rates. A combination of severe overcapacity and decreased demand plummeted massively bloated 2025 freight rates. Then [...]

Just a week ago, it looked like a tariff hike on Canadian goods was averted with a last minute trade deal between the U.S. and Canada. But, suddenly, the deal was called off. Now, we’re in [...]

This is a guest post by Brittney Reed. TL;DR: AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude can compress weeks of freight forwarder research into an afternoon if you ask them the right way. They are [...]

The Trump Administration decided not to renew the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Andrew Moran reported on it in the Epoch Times, quoting the U.S. Trade Representative’s July 1st [...]

Shippers and President Trump’s political adversaries went hard, challenging his tariffs in court. And they were successful. Were being the keyword. First, the president’s [...]

On Sunday (June 14th), President Trump announced a peace deal with Iran via a Truth Social post: The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all! I hereby fully [...]

Happy World Trade Week! Never heard of it? You’re not alone. I’ve only peripherally heard of it, and I write a blog about international shipping. I don’t think we’ve ever [...]

This is a guest post by Luka Marin. Peak season can make overseas shipping feel less predictable. Rates move quickly. Space can tighten before many businesses expect it. Schedules can also change [...]

Halted Strikes on Iran Today could have been a day of war escalation. President Trump posted on Truth Social that there was a military attack on Iran scheduled, but he held it off at the request [...]

Do you know what country is the number one trading partner for the U.S.? It’s not China. It’s not Canada…. 2026 marks the third consecutive year that Mexico is the United [...]

Ocean freight rates have been elevated since the start of the Iran War. However, as we’ve covered in Universal Cargo’s blog, international shipping’s capacity is not stretched [...]

With the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, Iran has reopened the Strait of Hormuz, but shipping traffic through it is reportedly at a trickle. According to a Reuters article by [...]

This is a guest post by Jake Herrera. During each year, shipping volume swings wildly. It only takes weeks for freight availability to go from comfortable to tight. This often happens when [...]

Summit Delay Request Many refer to the current trade deal with China as a trade truce. Shippers would be forgiven for thinking of it as tenuous after the tension of escalating tariffs of trade [...]

Competition on the waters of international shipping looks to be shrinking again as the world’s fifth-largest ocean freight carrier, Hapag-Lloyd, made a buyout deal yesterday to acquire the [...]

We don’t usually post on Fridays, but the U.S. and Taiwan inked a trade deal yesterday, so you get a bonus mini-post. Frank Fang wrote a nice, full article on the trade deal for the Epoch [...]