’Tis the season for (no, not Santa, that’s next week) ... fresh grapes imported from Chile! As the Northern Hemisphere swings into winter, shipments of fruit from the Southern Hemisphere ramp up. Leader of the pack, the first Chilean table grapes have shipped, reports...
Bottled up: Chilean Salmon Exports
An eight-day strike by the National Association of Customs Officers in Chile ended yesterday, clearing the way for shipments of Chilean salmon to resume. The strike affected all Chilean exporters, but the exporters of perishables – seafood, fruits and vegetables –...
Chinese Trade with Latin America Set to Climb
Argentina’s Congress has just approved a bundle of agreements that set the terms of a “strategic integral alliance” with China. As MercoPress reports, the two countries will be cooperating on infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, mining, technology, and agricultural...
Bruised Rep
Not another Weiner story: this time it’s homegrown apples A Wall Street Journal story that the US Department of Agriculture found residues of 48 different pesticides in a recent sampling of apples bruises the reputation (and possibly sales) of America’s second most...
Top Pick: Chilean Fresh Grapes
New report from Datamyne covers players, trends in a leading US-Chile trade sector The Chilean Fresh Fruit Exporters Association (ASOEX) is projecting growth in exports for the 2010-11 season: from a 2% increase in apples to a 40% boost for kiwifruit, to a whopping...
Shaken, Not Broken
Chilean vintners return to growth Chilean wine exports are expected to rise 8% in 2010, René Merino, president of Wines of Chile, a trade promotion group, told El Mercurio de Santiago. Good news for an industry that took a big hit from February’s earthquake. Concha y...
The Datamyne Top 5 Chilean Wine Exporters
The Datamyne Top 5 Exporters of Wine from Chile to the U.S.
The Day the Earth Got Knocked off Its Axis …
… in other news, trade in wine, fish, fruit is disrupted The Chilean earthquake may have shifted the Earth’s axis by 3 inches and shortened the length of an earth day by about 1.26 microsecond NASA calculates. It has most certainly caused hundreds of casualties and...