Burnishing Your Trade Credentials

Trade association programs can add luster to your resume and improve your job performance by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor One of the mantras of the past few years has been that job hunters can improve their prospects by getting trained in new fields. In many cases,...

Following Glencore

Trade data can shed light on a low-profile company’s x-border commerce Back on April 7, we took a look at what Datamyne trade data can reveal about Colombia’s consumption of US exports. We noticed then, but didn’t comment on, the fact that three of Colombia’s top five...

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...

Selling Med Equipment in Brazil

How to break into South America’s biggest market   The US Commercial Service is offering a webinar on the Brazilian market for medical equipment that will survey the overall opportunity and best prospects for US exporters as well as the details of registering...

Three Dirty Words, Left Unsaid

CBP Commissioner’s speech sticks to the business of trade by Peter Quinter, guest columnist At the annual meeting of the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 4, US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan...