Liquor delivered another year of growth in 2015, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States – or DISCUS. Domestic supplier sales were up 4.1% and volumes up 2.3%. A key driver of growth is demand for American whiskeys – Bourbon, Tennessee and Rye...
Tesla Model S Overseas Shipments Ramp up in 2015
Tesla Model S overseas shipments increased 200% in 2015 over 2014, according to Datamyne waterborne export data, for a total of 19,658 electric vehicles shipped last year compared with 6,539 the year before. Based on the manifests filed by exporters, our data captures...
Datamyne Top 5 Mardi Gras Throw Beads Importers
It’s Mardi Gras – Fat Tuesday – the final night of the carnival season before the sober season of Lent. Parade krewes in New Orleans and elsewhere will be tossing, and partiers everywhere will be wearing Mardi Gras throw beads tonight. The US imported 284 containers...
Free Report: Snapshot of Trade as Sanctions on Iran Ease
Sanctions on Iran trade will ease this year as the International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed Iran is minding the terms of its deal to curb its nuclear development program. That deal is meant to close off “every single path Iran had to building a bomb,” as...
Bubbly on the Rise: US Imports of Sparkling Wine Are Up
Nearly time to toast the New Year with a glass of champagne from – where else? – France’s Champagne region ... or perhaps you prefer a crémant de Bourgogne, or cava from Spain, or prosecco from Italy? If so, you’re part of a trend. Sparkling wine sales in the US were...
Betting on Outsourcing: 3PL Mergers and Acquisitions
M&A activity within the third party logistics provider (3PL) sector in 2015 continues at last year’s brisk pace, with global companies betting not only on growth in shipping, but on more shippers wanting to outsource their logistics. In November, French logistics...
Fueling Speculation: Gigafactory’s Need for Lithium
We called it a new HS code for Tesla – the new Harmonized System tariff code that distinguishes lithium-ion batteries imported to run electric vehicles from all the rest of Li-Ion batteries destined for digital devices, appliances and power tools. But, of course,...
Warning Signs in Trade Data on China Presaged Drop (Says WSJ)
Global stock markets had a rude awakening last week when signs that China’s economy is slowing became unmistakable. Not so the astute market observers who have been tracking the trade data on China – or so reports the Wall Street Journal. According to the WSJ, one...
Trade Data on China: Eye on Export Competition
China’s currency devaluations aimed at making its goods more attractively priced for global markets have prompted the Obama administration to urge the world’s leading exporter to rely less on foreign sales and more on domestic consumption to stabilize and grow its...
Trade Data on Tianjin, China: Traffic in US Imports
The repercussions from August 12’s deadly Tianjin blast continue to be felt across global supply chains. Generally ranked among China’s (and by extension the world’s) top 10 ports, Tianjin handled US$45,681,904,539 worth of exports, accounting 6.10% of the country’s...