In the wake of the shale revolution, rising supplies of oil have oil producers weighing their options (if any) to stabilize their product’s price per barrel. In his column from OilPrice.com, Matt Smith, Director of Commodity Research at ClipperData, takes a look at...
Global stock markets had a rude awakening last week when signs that China’s economy is slowing became unmistakable. Not so the astute market observers who have been tracking the trade data on China – or so reports the Wall Street Journal. According to the WSJ, one...
The Port of Oakland moves 99% of the containerized goods that come through Northern California – worth over $40 billion in 2014, Bunker Ports News reports. The Port has released a new video that asks “What’s in the Box [or container]?” and supplies answers based on...
China’s currency devaluations aimed at making its goods more attractively priced for global markets have prompted the Obama administration to urge the world’s leading exporter to rely less on foreign sales and more on domestic consumption to stabilize and grow its...
Despite reports that reshoring efforts are bringing manufacturing back to the US, the sector is still seeing a net deficit in jobs since the recession, Design News contributor Elizabeth Montalbano writes. Her column examines the challenges to companies that want to...
Datamyne bill-of-lading data reveals importers, suppliers, carriers, trade in hazmats Miami – August 17, 2015 – Datamyne, a leading provider of international market intelligence, has released a new report, available as a free download, revealing the top consignees...
The repercussions from August 12’s deadly Tianjin blast continue to be felt across global supply chains. Generally ranked among China’s (and by extension the world’s) top 10 ports, Tianjin handled US$45,681,904,539 worth of exports, accounting 6.10% of the country’s...
Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza factory collapse in 2013, which buried over 1,100 workers, arrested the attention of American consumers. But the environmental crisis in Asia, driven by outsourced apparel manufacturing and impacting hundreds of millions of people, has gone...
A trade complaint concerning hot-rolled steel filed with the Department of Commerce and US Trade Commission Tuesday is the latest move in a US steelmakers pushback against low price imports that “have been flooding our shores, substantially reducing selling prices,...
The Mercosur countries feeling the pinch of China’s economic rebalancing act with its cutbacks in imports (as we wrote yesterday in Mercosur’s Falling Currencies Failing to Lift Exports) are not alone: Any country that counts on China as a customer for its exports is...
