There’s a name for re-exported, pre-owned, repurposed cars News that General Motors sold more cars in China than in the U.S. in March sent us to the data on U.S. car imports and exports. Among other searches, we looked for 2009’s top destinations for U.S. “passenger...
U.S. Export Market Sourcebook
ITA annual on FTAs, top trading partner nations available for download The International Trade Administration’s Top U.S. Export Markets, published annually since 2007, consists of two-page fact sheets on 14 current or pending free trade agreements and on 50 countries...
Clock Stops on Countdown to Tariffs
Brazil, U.S. reach agreement in 11th-hour talks Brazil’s threat to impose stiff tariffs on a range of U.S. products and commodities as of April 7 has been withdrawn thanks to negotiations that began April 1 and concluded with an agreement announced April 6. The...
The Datamyne Top 5 U.S. Imports from China
Brazil's Countdown Continues
Scope of threat broadens Brazil has broadened the scope of threatened retaliation to include 21 new items, including pharmaceuticals, music and movies (http://bit.ly/cQQ7a8), which would be subject to not only tariffs but also suspension of patents and intellectual...
The Datamyne Top 5 Brazil’s U.S. Imports
Brazil’s Retaliatory Tariffs
After 8 years, 30 days to sanctions With the approval of the World Trade Organization, Brazil is set to impose tariffs on a range of U.S. products and commodities in retaliation for U.S. government subsidies to American cotton growers. The trade dispute started in...
The Datamyne Top 5 Exporters of Wine from Chile to the U.S.
The Day the Earth Got Knocked off Its Axis …
… in other news, trade in wine, fish, fruit is disrupted The Chilean earthquake may have shifted the Earth’s axis by 3 inches and shortened the length of an earth day by about 1.26 microsecond NASA calculates. It has most certainly caused hundreds of casualties and...
Low Expectations
U.S. consumers are pessimistic; confidence is back in Asia, Brazil The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index (released Feb. 23, based on a survey of 5,000 U.S. households through Feb. 17) now stands at 46.0 (1985=100), down from a relatively optimistic 56.5 in...