Are EU CMO reforms shrinking world’s wine lake? A report from Datamyne's team in South America They say that clinking glasses together in a toast lets us enjoy wine with the fifth sense, hearing … since the other four senses are already a part of the tasting. This...
New How-to on FDA Compliance
Handbook offers advice from leading lawyers Peter Quinter, partner in charge of the Customs and International Trade Law Departments at Becker & Poliakoff, and frequent guest columnist on Datamyne’s blog, is a contributing author to a new handbook on legal...
KORUS to Enter into Force March 15
Four months to set the date: pretty fast by FTA standards by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor Like many free traders, I was part of the chorus singing “Hallelujah” when Congress passed legislation last October approving the free-trade agreements with Korea, Colombia and...
US, EU Agree on What’s Organic
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...