The IRU is holding an online webinar on October 8 on Nearshoring \u2013 the practice of transferring business operations to a nearby country rather than a distant one, which is gaining traction in North America.<\/p>\n
Why? Partly due to post-pandemic supply chain considerations and benefits included in regional trade agreements (USMCA\/CUSMA\/TMEC).<\/p>\n
But what are the challenges and opportunities facing nearshoring in North America and in attracting manufacturing investments to the region?<\/p>\n
Join this North American Transportation Forum webinar for an interactive discussion on:<\/p>\n
The webinar will be in English with simultaneous Spanish interpretation.<\/p>\n
A more detailed agenda will be available soon on\u00a0IRU\u2019s website<\/a><\/strong>. In the meantime,\u00a0register here.<\/a><\/p>\n Speakers include:\u00a0Lak Shoan<\/strong>, Director of Policy and Industry Awareness Programmes The webinar, Tuesday October 8th 2024, will take place 11am\u201312pm EST<\/em><\/p>\n Please aim to connect 15 minutes beforehand<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0to ensure that your connection works.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The IRU is holding an online webinar on October 8 on Nearshoring \u2013 the practice of transferring business operations to a nearby country rather than a distant one, which is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[1719,2425,547],"class_list":["post-3753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-iru","tag-near-shoring","tag-webinar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCanadian Trucking Alliance;\u00a0Bob Costello<\/strong>, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President International Trade & Security Policy, American Trucking Association;\u00a0Kenneth Smith Ramos<\/strong>. Partner, AGON Economia\/Derecho\/Estrategia & former Mexican Chief Negotiator for USMCA and\u00a0Martin Rojas<\/strong>. Moderator, Senior Adviser for the Americas, IRU.<\/p>\n