This caught our eye in the story about the reboot of US-India trade relations: Almonds round out India’s top five imports from the US. Almonds are an export success story for the US – and for California in particular. In fact, almonds are a leading US export crop,...
Earlier today, US Trade Representative Michael Froman surveyed recent progress toward liberalizing trade achieved by India and the US in a speech to the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Froman is in New Delhi to co-chair with India’s Trade...
New trade data field offers US$ value of shipments with breakouts by HS tariff code MIAMI – November 20, 2014 - Datamyne has added a key field to its US import bill-of-lading trade data: the calculated value in US dollars of the cargos received at US ports. The newest...
Trade data first published by the Datamyne blog figures in an article in Seeking Alpha about an apparent discrepancy between the number of battery-powered cars Tesla says it’s delivered, and the numbers reported by independent sources. The analysis, by Michael Blair,...
In just 20 years, Lumber Liquidators has grown from one entrepreneur’s idea – buy excess wood from construction sites and sell it at a deep discount – to a nationwide retail operation giving Home Depot and Lowe’s plenty of competition in the flooring market. American...
The US share of world rice production may be tiny at less than 2%, but the country plays an outsize role as an exporter, accounting for more than 10% of global rice trade. Indeed, exports are hugely important to US rice growers, accounting for nearly half of...
Things are slowing down at the US’s largest oil-import hub, reports Bloomberg. Six years ago, the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) was receiving more than one million barrels a day. Now it’s taking in just half of that. Indeed, the US Customs district in Morgan...
Are the NAFTA partners getting set to trade sanctions instead of imports and exports? The US is being urged to drop its country-of-origin labeling requirement for imported meat and livestock following the World Trade Organization’s decision in favor of the Canadian...
Paraguay’s exports to Russia surged 50.75%, while Uruguay’s exports rose 34.11% this August compared to the same month last year. September’s trade data indicates more modest gains, with Uruguay’s exports to Russia up 12.09% and Paraguay’s increased 6.90% over...
Savannah, the fastest-growing port on the US coast for a decade, is on pace to overtake New York as the top East Coast container port. Savannah’s September imports climbed 21.7% compared with a 7% increase for New York, reports Bloomberg, drawing on maritime import...
