What you need to do before importing condoms – or any other Class II medical device – to the US | by Peter Quinter, guest columnist Many of you may think of a condom as a way to avoid pregnancy and protect against sexually transmitted diseases. But to a customs and...
The world’s second ranked producer of seafood goes after export market share. Indonesian seafood exporters are among the most sought company names in current searches of our US import trade data, accounting for 19 of the top 20 last month. (You can see the current top...
Retailers face tough choices after the latest Bangladesh factory tragedy. The collapse of the New Wave Style factory near Dhaka is being compared to New York City’s Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire just over 100 years ago – a deadly industrial disaster that roused...
Datamyne is in Information Today’s “IT Spotlight.” The newspaper for users and producers of digital information services takes a close look at the company that operates the world’s largest searchable trade database on one platform, and reviews Datamyne’s Profiles of...
In FY12, ITA’s Commercial Service network saw a 29% increase in the number of export to Korea success stories. The assistance offered exporters by the US Commercial Service, the export arm of the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration (ITA), is the...
Ruth A. Pagell, adjunct faculty, library and information science program at the University of Hawaii, puts Datamyne’s Rankings and Queries platform to the test in her exploration “from surfacing mining to subterranean gems” of the company’s trade database for this...
The administration made sure to negotiate an agreement that levels the playing field for the US automotive industry. Opportunities and risks are the focus of this second installment in Bill Armbruster’s interview of Francisco J. Sanchez, Commerce Department under...
Agreement acted as bulwark for US exports in the face of low overall demand in Korea in 2012. Here’s the first installment of an interview of Francisco J. Sanchez, Commerce Department under secretary for international trade, by Datamyne blog anchor Bill Armbruster....
Trade pact’s just not all that; EU edges out US: by Bill Armbruster. I wish I could report that the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement, which took effect on March 15, 2012, provided an immediate shot of adrenalin to US exports. But that’s not the case. In fact, US goods...
Easy-to-use tools for search and analysis of CBP export shipment data now available MIAMI – April 16, 2012 - Datamyne announced it has opened online access to transaction-level data on US exports sourced from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) electronic systems...
