Two of seven exporting countries studied are NOT providing countervailable subsidies; 62.74% duty for Malaysian imports. The US Department of Commerce has reported its preliminary determinations in the countervailing duty investigation of seven countries exporting...
Indonesia’s Blue Revolution
The world’s second ranked producer of seafood goes after export market share. Indonesian seafood exporters are among the most sought company names in current searches of our US import trade data, accounting for 19 of the top 20 last month. (You can see the current top...
Shrimp CVD Inquiry Gets Underway
… with a few course adjustments: a new deadline, more inclusive definitions The US International Trade Commission has announced some key changes in its inquiry, launched February 11, into whether seven countries – China, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand,...
Floor Rises under Mexican Tomatoes
Comments due Feb.11 on proposed hike in price of imports from top US source Today’s the deadline for comments on a new plan to replace a long-standing trade pact on US imported fresh tomatoes from Mexico. The old pact was challenged by Florida growers last June. The...
2013: International Year of Quinoa
The Columbian exchange continues with “a future sown thousands of years ago” What better way to start the new year than with a forward-looking celebration of an historical legacy? The UN General Assembly has declared 2013 as the International Year of Quinoa (la...
Asian Oenophile
Singapore-bound Wine Advocate embraces an Asian market that has come of age The Wall Street Journal reports that wine critic Robert M. Parker Jr. will be ending the print version of his newsletter, the Wine Advocate and stepping down as editor-in-chief. Stepping up to...
Trade Beat Goes On …
Moves and countermoves by China, US; end of a trade war; start of an FTA In a few crowded weeks, there have been new developments in several of the stories we’ve covered here: Start with China Digging into US Green Subsidies. In July, we wondered whether China’s...
Sandy Throttles Grey Goose
NJ is cut off from vodka as post-hurricane gasoline shortages persist in NY While New Jersey has ended the rationing of gasoline, in short supply after Hurricane Sandy closed the Port of New York-New Jersey, New York City drivers are still observing an even-odd gas...
Sales Swell
Coconut water meets US market’s growing thirst for natural, healthy drinks In the US market for nonalcoholic beverages, sales of sugary, fizzy soft drinks are flat, while consumption of “wellness beverages” is up sharply. (The segment is getting its own trade show,...
More Beer Here
Whose brew uses hops from Hallertau? Anheuser-Busch, says the BOL trade data Bloomberg Businessweek’s cover story, The Plot to Destroy America’s Beer, charging that Anheuser-Busch InBev has fiddled with the recipes for Budweiser and Beck’s, has the brewer fuming....