October 23, 2025 Current Developments in International Business and European Supply Chains

Description

Join us for a focused opportunity to gain insight into opportunities for companies exploring the European market and learn more about Illinois resources to support exporting. This virtual panel brings together industry leaders to discuss emerging technologies, regulatory trends, and The Netherlands as an innovative logistics ecosystem. 

Our panelists will discuss: 

Regulatory Trends in European trade and logistics

• A look at how evolving EU regulations, including VAT, customs, tariffs, and sustainability policies like EUDR and CBAM, are shaping trade and supply chain strategies for U.S. companies entering the European market. 

Adding value to your European supply chain

• Understanding the (tax/tariffs/regulatory) implications of bringing goods into the European Union while setting up or re-engineering supply chains 
• Learning the actual challenges and solutions firsthand from US companies 
• Examining how advanced technologies like AI, robotics, and smart warehousing are used to drive efficiency, improve sustainability, and increase service levels, and zooming in on the strategic advantages the Netherlands offers as a supply chain hub for the European market

Enhancing connectivity through modernizing physical infrastructure

• How mainports strengthen transatlantic supply chains through advanced infrastructure, seamless connectivity, and strategic access to European markets and improving transatlantic supply chains and improve visibility for US exporters
• Ideas to utilize connectivity to give US companies a competitive edge in reaching European markets

Presented by the International Trade Association of Greater Chicago and The Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA)