Breaking news: Datamyne and its South American affiliates, Mercosur Online, Urunet and Datamyne do Brasil, have been acquired by Descartes Systems Group, the recognized global leader in providing on-demand, software-as-a-service solutions for improving the...
by John M. Peterson, guest columnist Congress recently (and quietly) removed an exception to the 85-year-old prohibition on importing goods made with forced and indentured labor. Section 910 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2016 repeals the...
Why did Korea Line close a deal to buy Hanjin Shipping’s business networks and client information, but leave the bankrupt carrier’s ships on the table? Hayes Howard, CEO BlueWater Reporting, raises this and other questions in an analysis of how Asia-North America...
“It can be like whack-a-mole,” one steelmaker exec told us recently. “AD/CVD duties do have an effect, but there is so much excess steel capacity in the world that when, say, China is blocked, here comes the steel from someplace else. Countries are watching for any...
The last Hanjin Shipping vessel dropping off goods in California has set sail from the Port of Long Beach, finally clearing the many ships left stranded by the South Korean carrier’s collapse two months ago, the Los Angeles Times reports. But Hanjin’s bankruptcy...
Export volume at Port of Oakland, Calif., hit a three-year high in October, with year-to-date shipments up 10% over 2015, The Packer reports. Agricultural commodities accounted for 40% of the outbound volume through the port, which handles exports from California’s...
The Port of New York and New Jersey reported a drop in container traffic in September 2016 versus a year ago, Transport Topics reports. The decline can be attributed primarily to the Hanjin bankruptcy and the COSCO-China Shipping merger, say a NY-NJ port spokesman....
Coverage of US FTA partner begins with data on 2016 trade MIAMI – October 28, 2014 – Datamyne, a leading provider of global market intelligence based on trade data, has expanded its international database to cover the import-export trade of Australia. The latest...
by John M. Peterson, guest columnist For a domestic manufacturing industry struggling against unfair import competition, few things can be as frustrating as going through the long, high-cost process of obtaining an antidumping (AD) or countervailing duty (CVD) order...
Environmental activists and Saudi-oil dealers aren’t usually on the same team. But the week of October 17, their combined efforts sent oil to a one-year high, reports Tim Puko for the Wall Street Journal’s MoneyBeat blog. Drawing on trade data from Datamyne and...
