by Descartes Datamyne | Dec 30, 2013 | Transport
Over at the World Bank blog The Trade Post, the stacked cargo shipping containers under the Christmas tree on the Ellipse south of the White House in Washington, DC, are seen as a signal of US support for an open and revived international trading system – one more...
by Descartes Datamyne | Dec 16, 2013 | Press Releases
iDatamyne mobile app delivers multi-faceted profiles plus background and contact info for the 500,000+ companies actively engaged in US import-export trade MIAMI – December 16, 2013. iDatamyne 2.0 has been released: The new iPhone application from Datamyne delivers...
by Descartes Datamyne | Dec 12, 2013 | Data Applications, Resources
by Brian J. McCormick, guest columnist As promised last time, Chemcost’s search for “The New Cheap”* changes course this month and heads south to Brazil. What we find is that Brazil’s trade in the 10 chemical commodities that make up Datamyne’s US Best Price Benchmark...
by Descartes Datamyne | Dec 10, 2013 | Imports, Trade Data
There might have been a chance that Lululemon’s decision to return the too-sheer pants it had recalled in March to stores in October as “Second Chance Pants” would be judged a brave (if misguided) attempt to snatch merchandising victory from the jaws of a marketing...
by Descartes Datamyne | Dec 9, 2013 | Industry Coverage
Cocaine is like a truckload of bricks: leaving dust as it passes through. So begins veteran journalist Gustavo Sierra’s special report for one of Argentina’s leading papers, Clarín, on the extensive reach of the drug cartels’ illicit trade. In La Argentina blanca:...