Can trade and logistics remake Florida? GIS WebTech has shared with us (via twitter) a story from Brookings that raises this question – and answers with an emphatic yes. As Brookings points out, many of Florida’s metro areas have yet to recoup the job losses sustained...
Russian Sanctions Impact Uruguay, Paraguay Exports
Paraguay’s exports to Russia surged 50.75%, while Uruguay’s exports rose 34.11% this August compared to the same month last year. September’s trade data indicates more modest gains, with Uruguay’s exports to Russia up 12.09% and Paraguay’s increased 6.90% over...
Argentina’s Food Exports to Russia Surge in August
Just before Russia countered sanctions for its role in the Ukraine crisis with a ban on food imports from the US, EU, Canada, Australia, and Norway, it was reportedly lining up alternative sources for meat, poultry, fish, fruits and vegetables. Latin America, in...
Oil Heats up Colombia-India Trade Relationship
As the US has scaled back its oil imports, Colombia has scrambled to sell its crude to markets in Asia and Europe. One top customer is India, which edged out China to became Colombia’s second-ranked export market by value in January and March of this year … and...
US Tight Oil Revolution Undermines Colombian US FTA Gains
Colombia’s Congress voted to table a free trade agreement with South Korea June 17. This was the third time the trade pact signed by the Colombian and South Korean governments in February 2013 failed to win Congressional ratification. Concerned about the FTA’s...
South American Healthcare Market Leader Brazil Hosts Hospitalar
About 40% of the exhibitors at next week’s Hospitalar healthcare fair in Brazil will be from foreign countries – recognition of the strength of demand for imports in the country’s US$167-billion healthcare market. The US Commercial Service will be at Hospitalar to...
Comparative Economics: Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance
Call it Latin America’s controlled experiment in economics (as the Wall Street Journal did recently): Along the Western seaboard, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru embrace free trade and are working to lift restrictions on the movement of capital, goods and services,...
Will Look South Initiative Yield Results? Potential’s There.
by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor Business executives and trade analysts generally applaud the Obama administration’s new Look South Initiative, I found. (See my related post for details on this program to boost US exports.) “The initiative has the potential to help...
Look South Initiative Aims to Lift US Exports to Latin America
by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor While Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations grab headlines, the Obama administration is launching a program to create export opportunities for US companies in this hemisphere. The new Look South initiative aims to help companies chart...
Suntory Bets on Global Demand for Beam’s Distinctive Product of the US
In taking over Jim Beam, makers of the world’s best-selling bourbon, Suntory is not only aiming for a bigger presence in the US market, say analysts. The Japanese company is also banking on the world’s growing thirst for the spirit that Congress declared a...