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US makes first rice sale to Chinese buyers

A producer in California has agreed a deal to export the first-ever sale of U.S. rice to buyers in China. About seven months ago, China officially opene...
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Posted on July 7, 2019

China’s Pork Imports Surge

There was a 63% increase in China’s pork imports in May compared with the same month last year. This emphasises the devastating effect which African swi...
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Posted on June 29, 2019

US hearing on Chinese imports

U.S. hearings on the proposed new round of import tariffs from China have entered the second week. Hundreds of witnesses presented their views to trade off...
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Posted on June 28, 2019

USA ports request import tariff concession

Container port terminals in the USA are pleading with the government to remove gantry cranes critical to the flow of U.S. imports and exports from Chinese ...
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Posted on June 18, 2019

Rail Freight in Europe

Ten years ago the China Government proposed to build a robust rail network to connect Europe and China. The development was not welcomed by logistics s...
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Posted on May 30, 2019

Plastic waste exports drop

U.S. exporters shipped 67% less plastic scrap in the first quarter of this year, than the first quarter of 2017. The decline was mainly caused by China,...
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Posted on May 26, 2019

China cancels imports of US pork

China has cancelled orders for 3247 tons of US pork imports, a day after the USA had imposed a 25 percent tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports. ...
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Posted on May 25, 2019

China Exports fall In April

Instead of the expected rise in exports, in April data showed a fall, suggesting that the trade war with the US was having a greater effect than previously...
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Posted on May 12, 2019

Australian beef exports

Export figures of beef from Australia just released by Department of Agriculture are higher than expected at 98,647 tonnes, considering the production lost...
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Posted on May 9, 2019

Drug exports from India rise on disruption in China

Exports of bulk drugs from India have been growing in double digits during the financial year 2019. This period that was marked by drug shortages in the g...
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Posted on May 8, 2019

China suspends imports from Canada pork producer

Pork producers in Canada await developments, after China temporarily suspended pork imports from two Canadian processing facilities. The suspension impo...
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Posted on May 4, 2019

Shandong Province, China sends more freight train

Shandong Province in East China has sent a total 214 freight trains to countries in Asia and Europe in Q1, up 251 percent from last year. Five new route...
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Posted on April 29, 2019

China to spend $965 million on Thai fruit imports to drive growth

China will import around $965.8 million worth of fresh produce from Thailand over the next three years. They will import fruit, mainly durian and mangoste...
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Posted on April 28, 2019

China increases pork imports

The China Government is now unfolding a protein buying program which will probably be the biggest in the history of US pork exports. This is because of Afr...
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Posted on April 19, 2019

TV exports from China

A TV company in China company plans to export 1.5 million television sets to Europe in 2019 and 2.1 million sets in 2021, establishing supply chain centres...
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Posted on April 16, 2019

New freight route China – Poland

China Railway Express began its freight train service to Europe some time ago. Increasing numbers of international companies are benefiting from its relati...
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Posted on April 14, 2019

Exports Drop from South Korea

South Korea's exports fell for the fourth month running in March, because of declining semiconductor prices and slower economic growth in China. The Min...
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Posted on April 7, 2019

China to reduce waste imports to zero

China intends to reduce solid waste imports to zero by 2020. The intention is to reduce pollution and encourage recycling sites in China to deal with the i...
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Posted on March 31, 2019

Hong Kong’s exports and imports fall

Exports and imports of goods from and to Hong Kong both dropped in February compared with last year, official data showed. The value of total exports of...
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Posted on March 24, 2019

China allows Tesla Model 3 imports

The Customs Authority of China has lifted the suspension on imports of Tesla’s Model 3. “We can confirm that the warning notice on Tesla has been can...
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Posted on March 20, 2019

China biggest supplier of imports to Philippines

China supplied the most imports to the Philippines, with 22.2 percent share of the total imports in January 2019, according to the Philippine Statistics Au...
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Posted on March 14, 2019

Russia’s apple imports exceed exports

In 2018, Russia imported 125 times more apples than it exported. Imports amounted to 844,000 tons of apples exports were only 11.700 tons. The largest a...
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Posted on March 7, 2019

UK car exports to China dive

British car production has declined as production for exports to China fell by more than 70%. The car industry is experiencing a number of negative fact...
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Posted on March 1, 2019

US farm exports to China down

The Department of Agriculture in the USA expects the value of U.S. farm exports to drop by $1.9 billion this year, initiated by a steep decline in exports ...
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Posted on February 28, 2019

Chinese apple exports decline in 2018

6.05 million tons of apples were put into storage in China between January and December 13th, 2018. Apple exports in 2018 show a significant decline. ...
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Posted on February 26, 2019

China and US open trade as Chinese exports recover

The USA and China have opened talks on their trade dispute as Beijing reported its January exports recovered despite President Donald Trump's import tariff...
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Posted on February 17, 2019

“Our fruit imports have nearly tripled this year”

“At Chinese New Year, we import many fruits from Chile, such as cherries, blueberries, nectarines, grapes, kiwis, etc. The largest imports are cherries, ...
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Posted on February 3, 2019

Pakistan growers want to export potatoes to China

The Pakistan Vegetable and Fruits Exporters Association pressed the government to begin the process of exports of potato to China. Pakistan has harvested a...
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Posted on January 21, 2019

New silk factory to increase Rwanda’s exports

A new factory will open next month at the Kigali Special Economic Zone to improve Rwanda’s silk sector. It will buy cocoons from farmers and make product...
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Posted on January 20, 2019

Plan to increase N Australia mango exports to China

A project expected to increase northern Australian mango exports to China by 200 per cent within five years has been announced. The project will use the...
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Posted on January 19, 2019

China exports and imports below forecast

For the first time in more than two years, China's exports and imports both fell in December compared with the previous year. This reflects the drop in tr...
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Posted on January 15, 2019

Freight forwarder ‘not liable’ for shipping fakes

Two luxury brands have failed in their attempt to make a freight forwarder liable for trans-shipping fake products in two 40-ft containers from China to Ba...
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Posted on January 14, 2019

China may minimise coal import restrictions

Customs authorities in China are expected to begin accepting coking coal imports soon at most Chinese ports at the beginning of the new year. Customs de...
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Posted on January 3, 2019

Double-height container train in China

A freight train carrying 56 standard containers of goods left Ningbo-Zhoushan Port for Shaoxing City in east China on 18 December. This was the first offic...
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Posted on January 1, 2019

Tonga intends to increase China exports

Tonga plans to grow exports to China having signed China's Belt and Road initiative earlier this month. The Agreement was signed at the APEC Summit in Pap...
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Posted on November 30, 2018

Norway ceasing defence-related exports to Saudi Arabia

Norway has decided to enforce restrictions on sales of defence-related technology to Saudi Arabia. Currently controversy surrounds KSA due to its involveme...
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Posted on November 21, 2018

China more open to imports

China has said to the Agriculture Minister of Poland that it is now more open to imports. He recently talked on a visit to China about expanding the ra...
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Posted on November 20, 2018

Exports and imports China

Last week China reported that exports and imports for the month of October exceeded forecasts. China recorded a trade surplus of $31.78 billion with the U...
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Posted on November 15, 2018

Wine exports growth to China slows down

THE growth of wine exports from Australia to China is showing signs of slowing down. The value of exports shipped to China in the year to September 30 was...
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Posted on November 13, 2018

New import requirements from China

Growth of wine exports from Australia to China has eased, coincidental with the beginning of new “verification requirements” which were introduced by C...
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Posted on November 12, 2018

US plans tariffs on more China imports

Next month there will be a Group of 20 summit set in Buenos Aires, including the USA President and Xi JInping of China. If those talks don't go in a positi...
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Posted on October 30, 2018

Wine exports Italy to China increase by 21%

Over the last year, Italian wine exports to China have surged 14.2% in quantity and 21.76% in value. This was revealed in the newly released report China V...
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Posted on October 29, 2018

Dumped Imports of steel wheels from China

The U.S. Commerce Department said that it had made an initial finding that imports of certain steel wheels from China were being dumped in the U.S. market....
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Posted on October 25, 2018

British exports affected by USA trade war

British exports over £1.9 billion have been affected by President Trump’s trade attacks on the European Union and China, some analysis shows. Economi...
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Posted on October 22, 2018

Poland’s Shoe Sector suffers from Cheap China Imports

The oversupply of cheap, imports of shoes from China is being blamed for prompting a crisis in Poland's footwear industry. A children's shoe company ceased...
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Posted on October 20, 2018

Kenya seeks to stop imports which could be produced locally

A Bill aimed at forbidding cheap imports has been introduced in the Kenyan Parliament. The Bill intends to charge a tax that is 10 times the market price o...
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Posted on October 19, 2018

China Imposes Import Tariffs on Japan, India

China will introduce anti-dumping tariffs on Indian and Japanese imports of ortho-dichlorobenzene, a solvent which is used in the production of agrichemica...
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Posted on October 18, 2018

China: Inaugural NZ avocado import season kicks off with large fruit

A company in New Zealand has sent the country’s first ever commercial avocado shipment to China on Sept. 18. Closer to China than its Latin American Comp...
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Posted on October 14, 2018

Dairy exports to China making recovery

Dairy exports from South Korea to China are recovering quickly this year after a large reduction in 2017 due to a diplomatic dispute. One major dairy pr...
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Posted on October 11, 2018

Cherry exports dip in July

U.S.A fresh cherry exports dropped 17% in July, feeling the effects of retaliatory tariffs from China. Total U.S. exports of fresh cherries totaled 44,9...
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Posted on September 22, 2018
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