Global supply chains are constantly in flux: crucial vendors could suddenly go bankrupt, fail to produce key components without warning, or even lose your firm’s data in a breach.

Those stressors are even more pronounced these days with the addition of dramatic fluctuations in trade policy from the U.S. government. Republicans holding the presidency and both Houses of Congress in the United States mean that regulatory  and export control changes  happen at lightning speed, dictated by President Donald Trump’s unpredictable policy stances.

Aaron Nicodemus is the Editor-in-Chief of Compliance Week. He previously worked as a reporter for Bloomberg Law and as business editor at the Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Mass. Email: aaron.nicodemus@complianceweek.com LinkedIn:...