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New Container Feeder Services to Southampton

A container shipping group based in China will introduce a new weekly call at Southampton port, as part of a rotation on one of its Europe Feeder & Trans-A...
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Posted on March 25, 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

Grape exports record from Peru

Peru should finish the 2018-19 table grape season with exports of 50 million 8.2 kilogram boxes. This means a 51.5% rise in exports over the previous s...
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Posted on March 22, 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

South Korea export decline

Exports from Korea are continuing  to decelerate during the month of  March, which is endangering Korea's main contributor to the economy.  The Cust...
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Posted on March 16, 2019

US citrus exports slow

U.S. orange and tangerine exports declined by about 2% in value and 14% in volume last year. Trade statistics show that the top export market for U.S. ora...
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Posted on March 15, 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

South Korea’s exports tumble

South Korean exports fell during early February; export shipments of semiconductors fell drastically. Exports in total fell 12 per cent during the firs...
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Posted on February 21, 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

Parliament motion for ban on plastic exports

The government should not export UK rubbish to developing countries, according to an Early Day Motion backed by a cross-party group of MPs, including Conse...
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Posted on February 13, 2019

Turkish machinery wants to double exports

The machinery industry of Turkey was one of the three segments of industry with the highest increase in exports during 2018. The sector increased its expo...
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Posted on February 12, 2019

Transit Freight through Kazakhstan on increase

19 million tonnes of freight was transported through Kazakhstan in 2018. Kazakhstan, being located between China and the European Union, can benefit si...
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Posted on February 4, 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

China takes pick of avocado imports

Since 2015, growth of avocado imports to the US have slowed. The rest of the world has taken advantage. For example, imports to China, where the avocad...
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Posted on February 2, 2019

Vietnam scrap imports increase

The quantity of scrap imported into Việt Nam is expected to rise considerably, Vietnam's Ministry of Finance has warned. Other countries are restricti...
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Posted on February 1, 2019

Pig meat exports from perform strongly

During November 2018, UK exports of fresh/frozen pork recorded year-on-year growth (+5%) once again. Exports to China have continued the trend of the pa...
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Posted on January 30, 2019

China drives Australian wine exports rise in 2018

Wine exports from Australia rose by 10% in value in 2018, in spite of a reduction in the overall number of bottles shipped. Australian wine exports to Nor...
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Posted on January 27, 2019

Huge Increase in British Bike exports

Recent data from HMRC reveals that exports of bicycles made in Britain are at a record high. Asia is one of the biggest importers, with figures showing ...
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Posted on January 23, 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

Swiss watch exports on the rise

Swiss watch exports rose globally by 3.9% in November to CHF 2.06 billion. This is the first time in three years that export value exceeded the CHF2-bi...
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Posted on January 13, 2019

Japanese cosmetic exports record

Exports of Japanese cosmetics delivered another record performance in 2018, according to a report published by the Nikkei Asian Review. Exports increase...
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Posted on January 12, 2019

Tobacco exports bring in $892m

Export earnings of tobacco from Zimbabwe closed 2018 at $892 million from 184,1 million kg exported to different parts of the world. Last year’s crop ...
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Posted on January 7, 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

Soy exports from smaller suppliers on rise

The global soybean export market has doubled in volume within the last decade. This has made room for smaller supplier countries to build up export markets...
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Posted on January 2, 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

Thai orchid exports to get boost

An increasing number of Thai orchids will soon be exported to mainland China after the Thai Orchid Exporter Association agreed to collaborate with an onlin...
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Posted on December 23, 2018

China important market for Ireland exports

Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, recently explained the progress made in developing an export market for Irish beef in China. ...
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Posted on December 17, 2018

China top supplier of imports to Philippines

The United States was the top market for the Philippines export products valued in October 2018, while China was the biggest supplier of import products. ...
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Posted on December 15, 2018

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

China will ban waste imports

From December 31, according to official news agency Xinhua, China will ban the import of several different types of waste product. Newly banned product ...
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Posted on November 23, 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

Nigeria imports Stockfish from Norway

The Norwegian Seafood Council revealed that Nigeria imported more than 9,000 metric tonnes of stockfish from Norway in 2017, making it the largest importer...
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Posted on November 14, 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

Export permission from China for five more rice mills

China recently approved five more Indian rice mills for export of non-basmati rice. On Monday, India again pushed for sale of its rice to China, and urged ...
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Posted on November 1, 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

New freight route China to Pakistan

A new rail and road cargo service began last week, linking Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, with Islamabad in Pakistan. The first fre...
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Posted on October 28, 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

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

Egypt’s Exports flourish

In the 10 months from September 2017 to July 2018, Egypt’s exports of grape increased by 10 percent to reach $ 219 million. This was reported in a statem...
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Posted on October 17, 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
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