New names, new priorities at the Bureau of Industry and Security by Peter Quinter, guest columnist Earlier this spring, David Mills, the new Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), US Department of Commerce, and his Special...
Countries left out of FTAs lose out on trade Proponents of the free trade agreements awaiting Congressional approval often argue their case by pointing to the boost FTAs will give to US exports. So, for instance, the US Department of Agriculture projects the US-Panama...
US cattleman urges action on FTAs as competitors vie for overseas markets The US agricultural sector pressed its case for ratification of pending free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea before the US House of Representatives Committee on...
When employees burnish credentials, employers can benefit by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor In my last column, I examined relatively low-cost ways to burnish trade credentials from the perspective of employees, focusing primarily on continuing education in the form of...
Look up tariffs for imports and exports between free-trade partners online The International Trade Administration (ITA) has a new online tool that’s handy for looking up tariff information on 85% of the goods going to 20 country markets with which the US has...
Argus Rail Business taps Datamyne to benchmark containerized import volumes There’s been no dent in rail freight traffic in North America resulting from March’s triple disasters in Japan … yet. But expect that to change, cautions a report from Argus Rail Business.The...
MIAMI – May 17, 2011 – Datamyne announced its latest product release, featuring a friendlier user interface and expanded user options that make it easy to run complex searches and analyses of its import-export data. Datamyne provides the world's largest searchable...
There's been no dent in rail freight traffic in North America resulting from March's triple disasters in Japan … yet. But expect that to change, cautions a report from Argus Rail Business. The Argus Media publication cites Datamyne data on imports to trace the major...
Celebrating imports from Mexico Cinco de Mayo commemorates the 1862 Batalla de Puebla at which Mexican forces soundly defeated the French army, which had been dispatched by Napoleon III to secure an empire in the Western Hemisphere. While the French wouldn’t quit...
It’s on menus everywhere, but is tilapia good for you? Americans ate 475 million pounds of tilapia last year the New York Times reports, citing US Department of Agriculture statistics. The so-called “aquatic chicken” tastes bland and, just like chicken cutlets, works...
