The US embargo against Cuba still limits trade between the two countries, but an analysis for the Miami Herald by Datamyne shows steady traffic between several Florida air- and seaports and the island. Trade reached almost $65 million last year. In 2015, the Port...
CubaTrade16 Takeaway: Progress toward Reopening Market Uneven – Miami Herald
With just months left before the end of the Obama administration, the clock is ticking for new business and regulatory overtures toward Cuba. Reporting from the Datamyne-NEXCO October 13 conference, Preparing for Trade with Cuba, the Miami Herald’s Mimi Whitefield...
Talking Trade with Colombia
Gauging the odds on an FTA, counting lost-opportunity costs In February, the Obama administration pledged to “intensify” talks with Colombia on the free trade agreement initially negotiated by the US in 2006. Now Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana), who is leading a trade...
The Latin American Decade
LATAM may be on course for growth, but diversification is needed Writing in the Miami Herald earlier this month, Andres Oppenheimer asks whether 2011 will be the dawn of the “Latin American decade” – as a recent Standard & Poor’s webcast argues [you can access a...
In Miami: Meet Us @ Entrepreneurs’ Seminar
Learn how to “let your dreams soar” Thursday, February 24 Florida International University, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), and The Miami Herald have organized a half-day seminar that will provide entrepreneurs with expert insights into product...
On the Trail of Aid to Haiti
Miami Herald cites Datamyne stats on charitable goods that got only so far “At Haitian port, desperately needed aid sits and sits and sits …” headlines a Miami Herald investigation into why so much aid has reached so few in a country as beleaguered by bureaucratic...
Mining for Trade Answers
Miami Herald finds Datamyne delivers on toughest questions “It is really hard to find good sources of information on companies by product,” Charlotte Gallogly, president of World Trade Center Miami, tells The Miami Herald. What companies want, for example, “are the...
What a Difference a Trade War Can Make
Miami Herald taps Datamyne to gauge impact of Colombia-Venezuela feud The Miami Herald’s Jim Wyss writes today about the likelihood that Venezuela and Colombia can end the rift that’s caused commerce between the erstwhile trading partners to tumble 70%. As Wyss notes,...
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...