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...
Staying Thirsty: Trade Data Shows Rising Mexican Water Imports
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...
Chemicals Price-Setter: South Korea
On the trail of “The New Cheap*” Chemcost finds an opportunity to save on precipitated silica | by Brian J. McCormick, guest columnist. Chemicals buyers – in whatever country they are based – can economically benefit from discontinuous price opportunities, wherever...
Apple Season
It’s time to watch US import data for signs that new Apple products are ready for picking. The Loop reports that Apple has sent out invitations to an event on September 10 at the company’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters. Cue the rumors that a new iPhone is about to...
California and the Pacific Pumas
Latin America’s Pacific Alliance trade bloc creates trade opportunities beyond the region. They are Latam’s fastest-growing economies, market-driven and sustaining an expanded middle class. The four countries of the Pacific Alliance – Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru...
Sizing up the Senate DHS Budget Bill
Border security trumps trade facilitation in proposed homeland security budget appropriations | by Peter Quinter, guest columnist. In the proposed Fiscal Year 2014 budget approved by the US Senate Appropriations Committee on July 18, 2013, “Big Government” is going to...
Where Is “the New Cheap”*?
Chemcost embarks on a global hunt for the best prices for chemicals to be had by China, and by the US | by Brian J. McCormick, guest columnist. The Datamyne US Best Price Benchmark created each month by Chemcost, based on Datamyne trade data, provides a global context...
Show What You’ve Got
It’s not too late for US exporters to apply for International Buyer Program B2B match-making at this Fall’s trade shows | by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor. Whether you’re looking to buy or sell, trade shows and trade fairs are excellent venues for reaching potential...
The Path Not Taken
National Export Initiative goal of doubling US exports in 5 years is decades out of reach at current pace. Back in 2010, the year this blog launched, we wrote about the National Export Initiative (NEI) just nine months into the US government’s 5-year campaign to...
Peruvian Economy Disappoints
Is this the curse of commodities export dependence at work? Peru's gross domestic product expanded 5.0% in May, lower than the expected 5.5 to 6.0% growth, the government announced last week. Barely two weeks earlier, President Ollanta Humala was remarking on Peru’s...