Just before Russia countered sanctions for its role in the Ukraine crisis with a ban on food imports from the US, EU, Canada, Australia, and Norway, it was reportedly lining up alternative sources for meat, poultry, fish, fruits and vegetables. Latin America, in...
The World Customs Organization (WCO) has proposed a set of Harmonized System (HS) tariff codes to tag and track import-export trade in hybrid, plug-in hybrid and all-electric passenger vehicles. The new codes are part of a package of amendments to the HS that is...
by Brian J. McCormick, guest columnist The Chemcost search for the new cheap in US chemicals continues … even as chemical price storm clouds appear to be gathering. We’ve compared first-quarter with second-quarter best and average prices for the 10 chemical...
MIAMI – September 17, 2014 – Datamyne, a leader in global business intelligence based on multinational trade data, announced that it had completed the acquisition of Manifest Journals, a provider of US Customs data via online reports designed to meet the market...
The Reshoring Initiative announced the launch of a solution that economic development agencies can use to identify opportunities to attract new production facilities and promote sourcing from existing business in the locales they serve. The solution, which is being...
by Peter Quinter, guest columnist US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is holding its annual conference of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) this week at the beautiful JW Marriott in San Antonio, Texas. You can click here for more information....
Russian consumers will likely top the list of losers under Moscow’s one-year ban on all meat, fish, poultry, dairy, fruit and vegetables imports from the US, the EU, Canada, Australia, and Norway, effective August 7, 2014. Or, as the New York Times put it, Russia...
With 150 careers under her (very tiny) belt, Barbie is becoming an entrepreneur. Outfitted with a business-savvy wardrobe and accessories, Entrepreneur Barbie is making a bid for relevance in a market whose consumers keep getting older younger and abandoning their...
by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor By definition, the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill is “noncontroversial.” Once enacted, the MTB suspends import duties for two to three years on a mixed bag of chemicals and components that aren’t made in the USA but are inputs for US...
Italy’s standing among the top-ranked countries of origin for US footwear imports rests on pricier, higher-end brand products, Datamyne’s bill-of-lading data shows. Almost all footwear bought by US consumers is imported, with China far and away the leading source –...
