IMF STATS SHOW TRADE DISRUPTION MORE SERIOUS IN WESTERN HEMISPHERE THAN IN EUROPE

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in a major study of global trade disruption, has found that it is the countries of the Western Hemisphere, not those in Europe, that have suffered the most from our issues with transportation problems at the world's chokepoints, Panama & Suez. We are publishing here its graphic representation of the amount of disruption, which is as high as fifty per cent in some nations, according to IMF statistics.

If you are a compliance officer handling transaction monitoring for trade based money laundering interdiction, take heed of this, because rest assured that TMBL laundrymen are fully exploiting the lack of uniform delivery costs, supply chain nightmares, and other dysfunctional aspects of international trade to Latin America, and to a lesser extent, even North America. read the graph carefully, and adjust your thinking about the possibility that you may be seeing TMBL disguised as outrageous and clearly excessive costs and fees.