China is sending its top trade envoy to Washington to resume negotiations ahead of Friday's deadline to raise tariffs on Chinese goods. (WSJ)
China’s exports dropped 2.7% unexpectedly in April. (WSJ)
Job openings remained well ahead of the number of Americans seeking work for the 13th straight month in March. (WSJ)
Discussions about the future of the Arctic stumbled over U.S. opposition to collective goals on climate change. (WSJ)
Mexico says tomato growers face more than $350 million a year in losses from new U.S. antidumping duties. (WSJ)
General Motors Co.’s Cruise driverless-car division landed another $1.2 billion in outside financing. (WSJ)
Lyft Inc. will start offering rides from self-driving cars operated by Waymo LLC in Phoenix. (WSJ)
Siemens AG will spin off its struggling power and gas unit and fold its renewable energy division into the new company. (WSJ)
Prolonged flooding on the Mississippi River is blocking freight transport at a critical period for agriculture shipments. (Washington Post)
U.S. soybean net export sales have declined 17.6% in the marketing year that began last Sept. 1. (S&P Global Platts)
Denmark's Norden A/S lost $5.3 million in the first quarter in what it calls a "dry-cargo market on the brink of collapse.” (Shipping Watch)
Quarterly profit minus special charges at shipping company Goodbulk fell nearly a third on falling market rates. (Lloyd’s List)
Singapore Post wrote off most of the remaining value of its U.S. e-commerce operations and left the market. (Nikkei Asian Review)
Expeditors International of Washington Inc.'s first-quarter profit rose 3% to $140 million on a 9% gain in gross revenue. (Lloyd’s Loading List)
South African authorities are investigating alleged wrongdoing at state-owned freight rail company Transnet. (All Africa)
Warehousing company Flexe raised $43 million in a Series B funding round. (GeekWire)
Gartner says nine in 10 supply chains face “blockchain fatigue” by 2023. (Logistics Manager)
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