Logistics companies expect business gains from Pacific trade deal

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Analysis from the Wall Street Journal on the impact of the Transpacific Trade Partnership agreement, which was signed earlier this week in Atlanta and could transform the trading prospects for thousands of companies along the Pacific Rim. Interviewing large and small forwarders and major shipper representatives, who said that business are already beginning to prepare for eventual ratification of the deal. “Even though the duties and barriers aren’t coming down immediately, people are going to start developing those supply chains ...