US consumers acquire a taste for imported mangoes … Ever mangled a mango? Our own first attempt at slicing and dicing a mango was a fail. But the fact that we tried at all was a sweet success for the National Mango Board, which is on a mission to market the tropical...
The Department of Commerce last week announced its preliminary determination that certain Chinese producers/exporters of crystalline silicon photovoltaic (CSPV) cells have indeed received countervailable (albeit low) subsidies. So, score one for the US domestic solar industry, right? Not exactly.
Top South American producer, No.2 in the new world Datamyne’s South American team filed a report yesterday on the global market in wine (Needs Balance: Wine Market) and the “old world” producers’ efforts to shrink a global surplus in wine by cutting back vineyards....
No December shipments of HDDs to US from top exporters Comparison of US waterborne import data from November 2010 with November 2011 indicates a 6.3% drop in trade volumes from Thailand – providing a partial measure of the damage done by the flooding of the country’s...
Here’s a look at the mix of exports 2007-2011 See Bill Armbruster’s column, Here’s the Beef, on one of the world’s leading beef exporters.
Two of Peru’s top ag products find markets in the US See Peru Ramps up Ag Exports.
Here are some snapshots of Brazil’s import trade this year As Bill Armbruster discusses in What Brazil Is Buying, while China has roared past the US to become Brazil’s top trade partner, the US is still Brazil’s top source for imports (at least for first half 2011). ...
Chilean, Peruvian copper fetches record prices as shipments slip in 1H11 End of July, we looked at copper exports from top source Chile and top comer Peru through year-end 2010, when the price of copper began its climb toward a record US$10,000/ton [Copper Benchmark]....
Latest spike is a variation on the pattern set in 2002 A steady downward trend in global food prices in 1980-2002 has given way to sharp rises and falls. A report from the US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service (ERS) looks for answers to the question...
Ambassador to the US Arturo Sarukhan plugs benefits of NAFTA Over the next few days, Ambassador Sarukhan promises to deliver – via twitter – powerful examples of how trade with Mexico benefits the US economy and helps create US jobs. Here are some of the examples he’s...
