Move toward tearing up 16-year US-Mexico tomato trade pact gets bad reviews The US Commerce Department’s September 27 preliminary decision to end a trade pact governing the price of tomatoes exported by Mexico to the US has drawn criticism up and down the supply...
Western Digital aims to get some hard disk drive production out of Thailand A new report from IHS iSuppli finds the global hard disk drive (HDD) industry fully recovered a year after flooding halted production in Thailand. Not only are HDD shipments forecast to reach...
Peter Quinter cautions companies in LexisNexis webinar on export compliance “I don’t care how big a company you are, how small a company you are, how many lawyers you have on staff—compliance people on staff—sooner or later the chances are pretty good that every...
Behind a fresh new look, expanded options for running complex searches MIAMI – September 19, 2012 – Datamyne has released the latest version of its web-based international business intelligence product. "Ease of use has always been a key selling point for our database...
WTO complaints against (and from) Argentina are rising. Here’s a scorecard. Its trade policies have secured for Argentina the dubious title of the most protectionist country in the world. As reported by the Latin Business Chronicle, and based on Global Trade Alert...
Survey respondents divided on Panama Canal expansion’s impact on trade flow by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor In my last column, I asked readers to weigh in on a survey regarding the impact of the Panama Canal expansion on US waterborne trade. The $5.25 billion project...
Customs broker charged with using “in-bond” cover to avoid import duties by Peter Quinter, guest columnist In a criminal complaint unsealed on July 25, 2012, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California in San Diego announced that it had charged...
Ab Circle Pro exerciser traded on but didn’t deliver infomercial promises Companies that marketed the Ab Circle Pro in 2009-10 with TV infomercial claims that three minutes on the abdominal exerciser would yield results equivalent to 100 sit-ups have settled a...
ITA opens up access to documents shedding light on trade remedy proceedings We’re always interested in new sources of information about trade, so we’re happy to report that the US International Trade Administration’s Import Administration (IA) has implemented the...
US consumers acquire a taste for imported mangoes … Ever mangled a mango? Our own first attempt at slicing and dicing a mango was a fail. But the fact that we tried at all was a sweet success for the National Mango Board, which is on a mission to market the tropical...
