All Entries in the "INTERNATIONAL TRADE" Category
Expanding Global Middle Class Means Export Opportunities
WASHINGTON – / N2N / – Increased global trade and the growing interdependence among nations of the world has resulted in an expanding middle class and an historic opportunity for U.S. exporters, was the message delivered by Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Francisco Sánchez at today’s Washington International Trade Association breakfast. “Our nation’s [...]
Fair Trade Effect On Supply Trade Management
- / N2N / – Fairtrade-certified products have thankfully become commonplace in the UK. Globalization means that UK-based companies can look further afield for cheaper alternatives for their supply chain, but with the added reassuring knowledge that the workers involved in producing new products are also earning a fair wage. In one of the most [...]
March Mexico-Canada Surface Trade up 37% Over March 2009
- / N2N / – Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada and Mexico was 37.0 percent higher in March 2010 than in March 2009, reaching $69.9 billion, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The 37.0 [...]
Nicaraguan Textile Exports Up 11.75% Year Over Year
WASHINGTON, DC, – / N2N / – Nicaragua’s textile and apparel exports have increased during the first three months of 2010 when compared to the same period in 2009. The last report of the Nicaraguan Association of Textile and Aparrel (Anitec, for its acronym in Spanish), indicates that the value of exports increased 11.75 percent [...]
U.S. Companies Learn How to Seize Exporting Opportunities
- / N2N / – Survey Finds Those Engaged in Global Trade Are More Positive About the State of Their Business Although concerned about the economy, small- and medium-sized business exporters are confident about their companies’ futures, especially when it comes to international sales, according to this year’s Business Monitor United States survey commissioned by [...]
Billionaire Financier Applauds Obama’s Call for Natural Gas in Transportation
DALLAS – / N2N / – T. Boone Pickens today released the following statement in response to remarks by President Obama at the signing of the Presidential Memorandum on Fuel Efficiency Standards: “The President’s statement indicates that he clearly understands the national security and economic threats associated with our escalating dependence on foreign oil. He [...]
China’s Dumping of Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand Confirmed
- / N2N / – • On May 17, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) announced its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations on imports of prestressed concrete steel wire strand (PC Strand) from the People’s Republic of China (China). • Dumping occurs when a foreign company sells a [...]
22 U.S. Companies Get Award for Outstanding Exports
WASHINGTON – / N2N / – U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today presented 22 companies and organizations with the 2010 Presidential “E” Award and “E” Star Award for outstanding contributions to growing U.S. exports, strengthening the economy and creating American jobs. The Presidential “E” Awards are the highest U.S. government honor for increasing exports. These [...]
Big Rig Busted with Marijuana Stashed in Concrete Tables
Douglas, Ariz. – / N2N / – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers stopped a drug smuggling attempt at the Douglas, Ariz., Port of Entry when a large mobile X-ray unit detected more than 300 pounds of marijuana concealed in concrete tables. CBP officers were screening commercial traffic coming from Mexico on Monday when they [...]
March Trade Deficit Rises to More Than $40 Billion
WASHINGTON—The Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis today released a report on March 2010 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services. Today’s report showed that U.S. exports in March 2010 increased by 3.2 percent to $147.9 billion from their February 2010 level. Imports in March increased 3.1 percent over [...]
Worldwide Wood Chip Consumption Falls 14 Percent
Seattle, WA – / N2N / – The international financial crisis in 2009 had a major negative impact on worldwide demand for pulp and paper products. As a result, the consumption of wood chips and pulpwood for pulp production was lower and global trade of wood chips fell 14%, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly. [...]
Canada Ups Investment in Windsor-Detroit Border Crossing
OTTAWA – / N2N / – Canada’s Transport Minister John Baird announced an important step to fast-track the construction of a new bridge at the Windsor-Detroit border crossing, which is the busiest commercial crossing in North America. The Government of Canada will increase its financial participation to the project, as part of its commitment under [...]
U.S. Accuses Mexico & China of Dumping Copper
- / N2N / – U.S. Department of Commerce Preliminarily Finds Dumping of Seamless Refined Copper Pipe and Tube from the People’s Republic of China and Mexico • On May 6, 2010, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) announced its affirmative preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations on imports of seamless refined copper pipe [...]
