Importing and exporting company decision-maker names and email addresses are now available MIAMI – October 21, 2013 - Datamyne has enhanced its Trade Profiles product with links to the names and email addresses of key contacts at US importing and exporting companies....
by Peter Quinter, guest columnist Even as agreement was being reached to re-open the federal government, the shutdown scored another hit on trade: Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced on its website and to all registered attendees that it has postponed the...
Frankly, we didn’t think the US federal government shutdown would last this long. Anecdotal information is that imports are arriving at US ports and being processed by Customs, but delays in moving shipments out of port facilities are just beginning (see Bloomberg,...
It’s too soon to tell whether and to what extent the US federal government shutdown will impact US imports. But it’s not too soon to start keeping track. Here’s what our bill of lading data shows about the volume of trade through four major ports October 1 through 5...
by Brian J. McCormick, guest columnist Our search for “The New Cheap”*, which took us to China in August and South Korea in September, now leads us to India, where declines in the value of the rupee against the US dollar should set the stage for attractively priced...
Attendees invited to create FREE research on foreign companies doing business in their locales MIAMI – October 3, 2013 - Datamyne will bring its trade data driven solutions to the International Economic Development Council’s (IEDC) Annual Conference and Economic...
by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor Whether you’re an importer, exporter or distributor, doing business within a Foreign Trade Zone offers many opportunities to trim costs, yet relatively few companies pick up on them. “We were surprised that that so few companies were in...
In a 4-2 vote, the US International Trade Commission has decided that the US domestic industry has not been materially injured by imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from China, Ecuador, India, Malaysia, and Vietnam. As a result, countervailing duties on shrimp from...
Hoping to curb Mexican consumption of sugary soft drinks, President Enrique Pena Nieto has proposed a peso per liter tax on soda as part of a package of tax reforms. The public-health conscious measure follows a UN Food & Agriculture Organization report that...
It may be good for you, but there’s a backlash against quinoa, reports the Wall Street Journal in a truly entertaining article by Miriam Jordan about the “mother grain of the Incas” that has been touted as a superior alternative to bulgur wheat, couscous and rice....
