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The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Latin American team reports Venezuelan GDP has slowed to 1.1% in the third quarter from 2.6% in the second quarter. The EIU analysts are particularly struck by a third-quarter contraction in Venezuelan imports of goods and services of 16.1% year on year reported by Banco…

by Peter Quinter, guest columnist The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the responsibility under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics (FD&C) Act to stop any adulterated or mislabeled food products from entering the United States. Foreign companies that attempt to ship to the US products not in compliance with…

Here’s a chance to weigh in – and maybe help shape – trade policy. The Department of Commerce is seeking public comment on the topics to be addressed by the US-Mexico High Level Economic Dialogue (HLED) initiated by Presidents Barack Obama and Enrique Peña Nieto in May of this year. As…

by Brian J. McCormick, guest columnist Chemcost’s search for “The New Cheap”* has taken us to China, South Korea and India over the last few months. This month, we…

by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor For exporters that use significant amounts of imported components or raw materials, there are significant benefits to be had from setting up in a Foreign Trade Zone. The most obvious benefit is that they do not pay Customs duties on those inputs to produce finished products…

Mexichem Fluor has petitioned the Dept. of Commerce International Trade Commission to open antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) investigations into imports of 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane from China. Mexichem Fluor markets the refrigerant under the registered trade name Klea. The refrigerant (which is a frequent top target of product searches of our database)…

One of the great things about Datamyne’s data assets is that you can dig into the transactions that underlie the statistics – and profiles of the parties to the trade. The market shift in US pineapple imports (see Fresh, Not Canned) led us to the bill-of-lading data to find…

US consumers are losing their taste for canned foods, according to Euromonitor International. As Business Week reports, while the recession gave lower-cost canned foods a reprieve, the long-term trend has been a steady decline in retail sales of canned, jarred and otherwise preserved foods. The theory is that consumers perceive canned foods…