by Brian J. McCormick, guest columnist As promised last time, Chemcost’s search for “The New Cheap”* changes course this month and heads south to Brazil. What we find is that Brazil’s trade in the 10 chemical commodities that make up Datamyne’s US Best Price Benchmark...
There might have been a chance that Lululemon’s decision to return the too-sheer pants it had recalled in March to stores in October as “Second Chance Pants” would be judged a brave (if misguided) attempt to snatch merchandising victory from the jaws of a marketing...
Cocaine is like a truckload of bricks: leaving dust as it passes through. So begins veteran journalist Gustavo Sierra’s special report for one of Argentina’s leading papers, Clarín, on the extensive reach of the drug cartels’ illicit trade. In La Argentina blanca:...
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Latin American team reports Venezuelan GDP has slowed to 1.1% in the third quarter from 2.6% in the second quarter. The EIU analysts are particularly struck by a third-quarter contraction in Venezuelan imports of goods and services of...
by Peter Quinter, guest columnist The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the responsibility under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics (FD&C) Act to stop any adulterated or mislabeled food products from entering the United States. Foreign companies that...
Here’s a chance to weigh in – and maybe help shape – trade policy. The Department of Commerce is seeking public comment on the topics to be addressed by the US-Mexico High Level Economic Dialogue (HLED) initiated by Presidents Barack Obama and Enrique Peña Nieto in...
by Brian J. McCormick, guest columnist Chemcost’s search for “The New Cheap”* has taken us to China, South Korea and India over the last few months. This month, we have broadened our scope to take in Asia and – as illustrated in Chart 1 below – discovered that Asian...
by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor For exporters that use significant amounts of imported components or raw materials, there are significant benefits to be had from setting up in a Foreign Trade Zone. The most obvious benefit is that they do not pay Customs duties on...
Mexichem Fluor has petitioned the Dept. of Commerce International Trade Commission to open antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) investigations into imports of 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane from China. Mexichem Fluor markets the refrigerant under the registered...
One of the great things about Datamyne’s data assets is that you can dig into the transactions that underlie the statistics – and profiles of the parties to the trade. The market shift in US pineapple imports (see Fresh, Not Canned) led us to the bill-of-lading data...
