Each recognizes the other’s certification, opens market to imports The US and European Commission have reached an agreement that, in recognizing the equivalence of their organic certification programs, will open their markets to each other’s organic products effective...
Pharma Tops Counterfeit Seizures List
Industry watches for risks that make adulteration attractive Here’s a top 10 list you don’t want to see your product category make: last year’s top counterfeit merchandise seizures by Customs & Border Protection. In the just released CBP statistical report on...
Still Following Glencore
Merger with Xstrata will create new mining giant One trades and the other digs. So tweets BBC Business Editor Robert Peston about the pending merger of Glencore and Xstrata. The Financial Times confirms the merger, likely to be announced within days, will combine the...
How Sweet It Is
Paraguay is top supplier of organic sugar imports by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor Small countries tend to get overlooked in discussions about trade, yet they can be important supply sources for specific products. Paraguay is a good example. It’s a very poor,...
Take a Quick Look @ Mercosur Trade in 2011
FREE report tallies members’ imports, exports, trade partners The year-end 2011 import-export trade data is in on Mercosur's four founding members – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. We’ve put the highlights together in a FREE downloadable report, that covers...
Peru’s Copper Exports Falter
But economic engine gathers steam for the long haul The Financial Times reports today that Peru’s government will name three international consultants to monitor the environmental impact of the $4.8-billion Conga gold and copper mine, the biggest single investment in...
Looking for Cool
Top product searches of our import data focus on refrigerants The most frequent product search of Datamyne’s US import data in December was for R134a (a.k.a. hydrofluorocarbon-134A, or HFC-134a, or 1,1,1,2–tetrafluoroethane), a refrigerant used in most car air...
Some Fungicide with Your O.J.?
FDA testing orange juice import shipments The Wall Street Journal reports that the Food and Drug Administration is testing inbound orange juice shipments at US ports for a fungicide, carbendazim, that has been found in brand-name juice products sold in the States. The...
Exporting to Brazil?
Commercial News will translate your ad into Portuguese for free Commercial News USA, the official export promotion magazine of the US Department of Commerce, is doing a special promotion of its ad pages: Buy two ads and get the third ad for free … plus get a free...
More Bank Accounts Seized
Allegations of trade-based money laundering on the rise by Peter Quinter, guest columnist This past year has seen an explosion of seizures of bank accounts by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Homeland...