--- title: "Weekly Wrap-Up: August 31, 2018" description: Over the last couple weeks, our industry analysts released a flurry of new articles tracking tariffs and highlighting new research on a wide variety of markets. image: https://blog.marketresearch.com/hubfs/social-suggested-images/WeeklyWrapUp-131269-edited.png --- [![MarketResearch.com](https://blog.marketresearch.com/hs-fs/hub/209482/file-22777923.gif?width=295&height=66&name=file-22777923.gif "MarketResearch.com")](https://www.marketresearch.com/) [Market Research Blog](https://blog.marketresearch.com/) # Weekly Wrap-Up: August 31, 2018 by [Sarah Schmidt](https://blog.marketresearch.com/author/sarah-schmidt), on August 31, 2018 ![market research articles](https://blog.marketresearch.com/hs-fs/hubfs/social-suggested-images/WeeklyWrapUp-131269-edited.png?width=300&name=WeeklyWrapUp-131269-edited.png)Over the last couple weeks, our industry analysts released a flurry of new articles tracking tariffs and highlighting new research on a wide variety of markets. Read on to see the latest headlines from Packaged Facts, Kalorama Information, Simba Information, The Freedonia Group, and more. ### [Make That Pet Food Packaging Pretty](https://www.packagedfacts.com/Content/Blog/2018/08/22/Make-That-Pet-Food-Packaging-Pretty) Millennials and Generation X are much more interested in the attractiveness of packaging than older generations are, according to new survey data. ### [$77.8 Billion-Dollar IVD Market by 2023: New Report](https://www.kaloramainformation.com/Content/Blog/2018/08/28/778-Billion-Dollar-IVD-Market-by-2023-New-Report) In this blog post, learn key findings from Kalorama Information’s new report The Worldwide Market for In Vitro Diagnostic Tests. ### [PAMA Brings Huge Changes to Lab Price Testing, Faces Resistance from ACLA](https://www.kaloramainformation.com/Content/Blog/2018/08/29/PAMA-brings-huge-changes-to-lab-price-testing-faces-resistance-from-ACLA) The Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) of 2014 has surprised the industry with sweeping, potentially devastating cuts to how lab tests are reimbursed through Medicare.  ### [K12 Inc. Investments Point to Interest in Digital Learning and Workforce Readiness](https://www.simbainformation.com/Content/Blog/2018/08/22/K12-Inc-Investments-Point-to-Interest-in-Digital-Learning-and-Workforce-Readiness) Simba Information highlights the recent investments made by K12 Inc, a manager of virtual schools and provider of online learning resources. ### [The Telemedicine Technology Market Will More Than Double by 2022](https://blog.marketresearch.com/the-telemedicine-technology-market-will-more-than-double-by-2022) The global market for telemedicine technology, currently worth $31.8 billion, will reach $77.2 billion by 2022, according to a new report by The Business Research Company. ### [Will the Meal Kit Delivery Industry Hold Up in a Recession?](https://blog.marketresearch.com/will-the-meal-kit-delivery-industry-hold-up-in-a-recession) With the growth of the meal kit delivery industry, venture capital firms have been in a frenzy the past three years to find a success story, and profits. ### [The Top 7 Things to Know About Smart Manufacturing](https://blog.marketresearch.com/the-top-7-things-to-know-about-smart-manufacturing) Smart manufacturing is a powerful disruptive force with the potential to restructure the current competitive landscape and produce a new set of market leaders. ### [Tariff Tracker: With Latest Round, Foamed Plastic Market Slowdown?](https://www.freedoniagroup.com/Content/Blog/2018/08/23/Tariff-Tracker-With-Latest-Round-Foamed-Plastic-Market-Slowdown) New 25% tariffs on Chinese chemical imports like polystyrene and extruded polystyrene are set to drive up foamed plastic insulation prices. Will other types of insulation be next? ### [Tariff Tracker: Supply Chain Shell Game](https://www.freedoniagroup.com/Content/Blog/2018/08/24/Tariff-Tracker--Supply-Chain-Shell-Game) Tariffs are negatively impacting global manufacturers of all sizes and scopes. Find out how some multinational corporations are getting strategic to mitigate the impact of these new surtaxes. ### [Tariff Tracker: Canada’s Retaliatory Tariffs Impact Windows & Doors Industry](https://www.freedoniagroup.com/Content/Blog/2018/08/27/Tariff-Tracker-Canada%E2%80%99s-Retaliatory-Tariffs-Impact-Windows--Doors-Industry) A host of tariffs impacting products imported between the US and Canada could mean bad news for the construction markets in both countries. ### [Tariff Tracker: The Last of Many Straws](https://www.freedoniagroup.com/Content/Blog/2018/08/20/Tariff-Tracker--The-Last-of-Many-Straws) Though tariffs have been in the news almost daily this year, trade-related tensions between the US and China have been simmering for quite some time. ### [Tariff Tracker: Recreational Boating Industry Is Rocked by the Rough Seas of a Trade War](https://www.freedoniagroup.com/Content/Blog/2018/08/21/Tariff-Tracker-Recreational-Boating-Industry-Is-Rocked-by-the-Rough-Seas-of-a-Trade-War) The boating industry has recovered strongly from its recession-induced collapse. 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