The UK should expect the US to impose the same tariffs as now apply to China, Brazil and India, should it opt out of the European Union, Michael Froman, the US Trade Representative, told Reuters October 28. British voters will decide before the end of 2017 whether to...
MIAMI – October 27, 2015 – Datamyne (www.datamyne.com), a leader in global business intelligence based on multinational trade data, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Zepol Corporation, a Minneapolis-based provider of online trade data tools. “As two...
With the thaw in US-Cuba relations, Cuban trade deserved a fresh look, says the Esri Insider blog. So Esri, a leader in geographic information software (GIS), took Datamyne’s trade data and created a new story map that provides a clear view of the island nation’s...
We were surprised to see lobsters break into the top 25 US agricultural exports for the first time in our latest monthly ranking report, based on the value of trade in August. Typically, the ag trade ranking reports are dominated by in-season commodities such as...
We called it a new HS code for Tesla – the new Harmonized System tariff code that distinguishes lithium-ion batteries imported to run electric vehicles from all the rest of Li-Ion batteries destined for digital devices, appliances and power tools. But, of course,...
Yet another sign that electric cars are catching on: A new 10-digit Harmonized Tariff System code has been established for the lithium-ion batteries used to power electrical vehicles: HS 8507.60.0010. Until now, the HS codes did not distinguish between EV batteries...
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...
