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...
A Model Trade Partner
US exports to Chile have soared since FTA took effect in 2004 by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor I caught Barbara Kotschwar, a Latin America specialist with the Washington-based Petersen Institute for International Economics, by surprise when I said I wanted to talk...
Charts and Graphs: Brazil’s Buying
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). ...
What Brazil Is Buying
Cotton and ethanol leap into Brazil’s top 5 imports from the US by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor China has roared past the US to become Brazil’s top trade partner, but the US is still the top exporter to the Latin American giant, and those exports – plus the US surplus...
Argentina Uncorks Exports
Wine exports are “growing like crazy.” But protectionism could stopper trade. by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor Argentina surged ahead of Chile to become the third largest source of US table wine imports during the first quarter, according to the National Association of...
Scoping out Colombia
Trade data provides details of this market for US exports Now that the long-pending US-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA) is gaining some traction, US companies are sizing up the potential for doing business after the barriers to US exports come down. Always a...