International Trade Matters—Selected Experience

Nitromethane from the People's Republic of China: Represented respondents in the final determination stage of an anti-dumping proceeding involving nitromethane. Expert testimony provided

Retail Carrier Bags from China, Malaysia, and Thailand: Represented a group of petitioners in an anti-dumping case involving retail carrier bags (e.g., plastic bags from a supermarket). Prepared economic injury analysis, estimated dumping margins, and provided recommendations

Anti-friction Bearings (Other than Tapered Roller Bearings) and Parts thereof from the Federal Republic of Germany: Assisted a respondent in the Federal Republic of Germany in collecting questionnaire data and preparing a report for an administrative review of an anti-dumping order

Low Enriched Uranium from France: Represented a petitioner in the administrative review of an anti-dumping and a countervailing duty case. Prepared economic analysis and strategy for the rebuttal brief, and appeared at hearings on the issue of electricity pricing in France

Potassium Hydroxide, Liquid and Dry, from Canada, Italy, and the United Kingdom: Represented a petitioner in an anti-dumping proceeding involving caustic potash (potassium hydroxide)

Ammonium Nitrate from Russia: Represented a petitioner in an anti-dumping case involving ammonium nitrate; prepared an affidavit, provided testimony, and prepared post-hearing response materials

Section 201 Investigation Regarding Certain Steel Products: Provided litigation support for a domestic company by preparing economic analysis and exhibits International Trade Strategy: In several different assignments, assisted companies in analyzing their exposure to trade disputes and recommended procedures and tactics to mitigate their trade risks. Company operations were located in the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East

Applications for Government Agencies

• Public Sector Services
  Global Insight provides professional management consulting services to the public sector. Our expertise includes:
  • Public freight planning and policy appraisal
  • Freight roles in economic development, and public-private alignment
  • Transportation data sourcing, consolidation, and analysis
  • Traffic, network, and modal choice modeling
  • High value transport goods modeling
  • Motor and rail carrier operations and facility assessment
  • Operations research and economic evaluation
  • Integrated freight marketing and operations strategy
  • Competitive analysis and intelligence
  • Market research and feasibility studies
  • Merger, acquisition, and privatization impact analysis
  • Transportation information systems design and implementation
• Freight Movement Data
  Global Insight supplies analytic and data services to federal, state, and regional government agencies. The company has been a pioneer in the development of transportation models and the creation, construction, maintenance and use of comprehensive transportation databases.
• Transport Cost Economics
  Our transportation costing products provide a sound basis for economic analysis of corridors, investments, and policy impacts for federal, state, and regional government agencies. Reebie's transport cost models are excellent for modal comparison of costs. Transportation costs are based on carrier-specific costs and are available in software systems that combine ease-of-use with fully calibrated transportation costs. Our transportation costing systems are fully data loaded, with user customizable inputs. They operate on Windows and other computer platforms, with minimal data requirements for most users. Periodic cost factor updates are available.

Applications for Transportation Providers

• Market Data
  Global Insight supplies analytic and data services to leading motor carriers, express and package carriers, and railroads in the U.S. transportation industry. The company has been a pioneer in the development of transportation models and the creation, construction, maintenance and use of comprehensive transportation databases.
• Rate and Cost Analysis
  Global Insight's CO$TLINE® is a family of software models that calculates the shipment costs of U.S. and Canadian freight carriers. The models are designed to improve and speed rate negotiations by shippers; and provide cost analysis capabilities to carriers. Models in rate applications pay for themselves rapidly. User savings may reach the millions due to informed bargaining and systematic benchmarking of transport profit margins. Analyses also reveal comparative advantages between modes and carriers. The software is fully data loaded, with user customizable inputs. It operates on Windows and other computer platforms, with minimal data requirements for most users. Periodic cost-factor updates are made and distributed quarterly.
• Fleet Management
  The Structured History SystemTM is a fleet-management and maintenance-decision support system based on research performed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a revolutionary way to manage costs and improve reliability of your freight car fleet. With this system you can:
  • Track your railcars: when and where shopped, what was shopped, cost, mileage, and shipment
  • Monitor and improve performance through a series of performance measures at the individual car, group, and fleet level
  • Focus your limited time on the small proportion of your fleet that is consuming a disproportionate share of your maintenance budget (Problem Car function)
  • Assess when and whether to replace, rebuild, or to sideline cars (Railcar Economic Model)