He said he wanted to "reshape globalization" so that trade deals would promote human values, not just the free shipments of goods.
Many manufacturers rely on just-in-time shipments of parts, so delays longer than a week could idle some assembly lines of Hanjin clients until a workaround is found, said Jock O'Connell, an international trade advisor at Beacon Economics, a Los Angeles research firm.
Reports of ivory seizures are a regular occurrence in Mombasa, Kenya's largest port, where just this month large shipments of ivory have been discovered, in one case disguised as a haul of sun-dried fish, and in another as a consignment of 240 bags of groundnuts.
It took just two years for shipments of DVD players to hit a million units, compared with four years for compact disc players and 11 years for VHS.
A company called Sproutkin, which launched in spring of 2013 offering shipments of just under a dozen books which parents paid for on a monthly basis but could return at any time for a new batch.
A company called Sproutkin, which launched in spring of 2013 offering shipments of just under a dozen books which parents paid for on a monthly basis but could return at any time for a new batch.
Apple and the iPad remain in the lead with 57% of all shipments, but just as Apple missed sales expectations on the iPad, it also is losing some market share in the tablet market overall, with Android picking up the slack to reach an all-time high of 41% of shipments on overall shipments of just under 25 million units.
For the first time, Cuban-Americans can send "gift parcels," large shipments of not just food, clothes and medicine, but a variety of items that their families in Cuba can use to run new small private businesses.
Just last month, South Korea resumed aid shipments of rice and instant noodles for the first time since early 2008 as part of an $8.5 million package that, though largely symbolic in relation to the crushing food shortages, was seen as the result of diplomatic overtures by the North in response to its economic plight.
Last year, inspectors sampled just 20,662 shipments out of more than 8.9 million that arrived at American ports.
