BEP 422 – English for Logistics 3: Duty, Tariffs and Costs

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bizpod/BEP422-Logistics-3.mp3 Welcome back to Business English Pod for the third lesson in our series on English for logistics. In this lesson, we’ll focus on duties, tariffs, and other cost factors. There was a time when logistics was a lot simpler than it is today, when economies were not nearly so interconnected. But in the second half of the 20th century, governments took down barriers to international trade. Soon companies were relying on complex supply chains stretching around the world, as they outsourced production and sold their go...