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China Food Import Safety

New rules will govern food imports to China as demand from China's growing middle-class increases. Some exporters in Thailand have asked for more time but ...
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Posted on January 7, 2022

China Covid increase may affect India’s diamond exports

Covid-19 cases are increasing in China and the government's lockdown policies are very severe. This may impact diamond exports from India as demand has not...
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Posted on December 22, 2021

China Food Imports

Food imports to China have surged recently years mainly because of growing demand from a huge middle class. Their value was $89 billion in 2019, according ...
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Posted on December 15, 2021

China import rules cause problems for exporters

Exporters of Irish whiskey, Belgian chocolate and European coffee brands are working hard to comply with new Chinese food and beverage import regulations. ...
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Posted on December 14, 2021

China imports chocolate from Russia

China and countries of the Eurasian Customs Union trade bloc — consistsing of Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan — were the largest importers ...
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Posted on December 10, 2021

EU scrap exports to China halted

Scrap metal exports have been halted from EUn countries to China. China and the EU cannot agree on what constitutes 'waste' and 'recyclable raw materials'....
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Posted on December 5, 2021

SOEs boost exports in China

State-owned enterprises in China form part of many programmes currently being expanded to stabilize supply chains. The SOEs as well as private businesses a...
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Posted on December 1, 2021

Border city in China halts rail imports

Suifenhe in China, which lies on the border with Russia, suspended imports of some commodities by rail from to prevent potential transmission of Covid 19 t...
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Posted on November 30, 2021

Australia obtains 90 per cent of solar panel imports from China

Australia's Energy Minister has been criticised over Australia’s over-reliance on China for solar panels. Over 90 per cent of Australia’s imported s...
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Posted on November 25, 2021

Cheap imports imperil Jordan’s shoemakers

Handmade leather shoemakers were very busy in the late nineties, however imports have increased endangering the trade. Before Covid-19, Jordan imported ...
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Posted on November 22, 2021

Vietnam increase share of global footwear exports

In 2020 Vietnam accounted for more than 10 percent of the world’s footwear exports for the first time. Exports have grown five-fold since 2011. Vietn...
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Posted on November 12, 2021

September exports from Germany disappointing

German exports dropped once again, confirming that the economy’s only growth areas in the third quarter were domestic consumption and government expendit...
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Posted on November 10, 2021

Chongqing, China – growth in car imports

Chongqing in South West China imported 5,161 whole vehicles worth about 442 million U.S. dollars from January to September this year. Chongqing has rece...
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Posted on October 25, 2021

Brazilian meat exports; record highs

Brazilian meat exports were at a record high in September, both in monthly volumes and in cumulative export shipments since the beginning of the year. T...
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Posted on October 21, 2021

Record Beef Exports In 2021

August beef exports from the USA were up 21.3 percent year over year. Year-to-date total beef exports were also up 21.0 percent from 2020. Beef exports Au...
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Posted on October 19, 2021

China turns to Australia for certain products

China has imported US$30 million worth of copper concentrate from Australia. They have also increased imports of cotton from the country in spite of intern...
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Posted on October 8, 2021

Italy’s imports increase in August

Italy's imports from outside the European Union continue are growing as the country's economy emerges from the Covid-19 crisis. The same applies to its ex...
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Posted on October 4, 2021

Chinese city launches new freight train route to London

Last Saturday a freight train departed Wuwei City, in northwest China's Gansu Province, for London. This was the inaugaral trip of the new route of China-...
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Posted on September 27, 2021

China’s clean marine fuel exports dip, teapot demand bolsters imports | Reuters

Exports from China of clean marine bunker, or very low-sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO), fell by 2% in August from a year-ago period, customs data showed. Augus...
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Posted on September 24, 2021

August soybean imports to China from Brazil rise 10.9%

August soybean imports from Brazil into China rose 10.9% from the same month last year, according to customs data, while imports from the United States fel...
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Posted on September 22, 2021

Two atypical cases of mad cow disease detected in Brazil, beef exports to China suspended

Two cases of mad cow disease have been detected in Brazil, which has resulted in suspension of its exports of beef to China. The precaution was taken unde...
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Posted on September 11, 2021

Port congestion hampers shipping

As well as an international shortage of containers, there is congestion at major international ports. Some sea terminals in China have been closed due to s...
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Posted on September 10, 2021

Shipping crises may afffect gift prices

There are concerns that the global shipping crisis may mean that consumers may pay higher prices for Christmas gifts. The cost of importing products fro...
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Posted on September 9, 2021

UK food and drink exports recover

Food and drink exports from the uk have recovered in the first half of this year after a Covid 19 affected eports in 2020. According to the Food & Drink...
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Posted on September 5, 2021

Far East of Russia to increase exports to China

The Government of Russia intends to increase exports from the country's Far East to China. The Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arc...
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Posted on September 3, 2021

China import restrictions on Australian goods

China informally banned a series of goods from Australia last year such as coal, log timber and wine, opening the import market to the U.S. Political a...
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Posted on September 1, 2021

Frozen Beef Exports from USA To China increase

The U.S. is now the top exporter of frozen beef to China, overtaking Australia as the main supplier. According to a report in the South China Morning Po...
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Posted on August 31, 2021

Wine and nut exporters suffer retaliatory tariffs

Import Tariffs in China are still affecting key California agricultural exports. A U.S.-China trade dispute beginning in 2018 means that Chinese retalia...
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Posted on August 22, 2021

Record cotton consumption in Vietnam

It is expected that growth in Vietnam’s cotton yarn and product export is will drive 2020/21 cotton consumption to a record 7.3 million bales, 700,000 hi...
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Posted on August 21, 2021

Pak-China cross-border logistics flourishing

Import and export trades between Pakistan and China have increased explosively, against the global trend under the influence of the pandemic. According ...
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Posted on August 20, 2021

Cheese exports from the UK to Far East

Cheese exports from the UK have been improved by the Asian and Oceania markets – with shipments up 17% on last year. Exports totalled 2,300 tonnes in Q...
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Posted on August 19, 2021

Pork exports from Denmark to China continue to rise

Pork is an enormously important export product for Denmark. By the end of May, the country had exported a total of 866,234 tonnes of pork, an increase of 7...
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Posted on August 12, 2021

Aussie Wine Exports to Hong Kong increase

Wine companies in Australia may have hit a barrier in getting bottles to China because of excessively tariffs, exports to Hong Kong are booming. Shipmen...
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Posted on July 29, 2021

Ginger exports from China suffer

Increases in shipping costs, and the appreciation of the Chinese yuan, both affected the export environment of many Chinese agricultural products. The pric...
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Posted on July 28, 2021

Australia wine exports to mainland China are way down

Australia exported 45 per cent less wine to mainland China in the financial year ending in June. Exports to other markets increased by 12 per cent Britain...
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Posted on July 27, 2021

China bans cattle imports from Laos to prevent skin disease

The Customs authority in China said on Thursday that it has banned the import of cattle and cattle products from Laos, to prevent spread of lumpy skin dise...
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Posted on July 25, 2021

Import of medical equipment to Nepal doubles

Imports of medical equipment to Nepal doubled during the first 11 months of the fiscal year 2020-21. According to bank statistics, the country imported...
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Posted on July 21, 2021

China rail freight to break records

Pandemic conditions have caused ocean freight to be disrupted by a global container shortage. Ocean freight rates have therefore increased, and air freigh...
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Posted on July 19, 2021

Australia wine exports suffer

Wine exports to China for the December 2020 to March 2021 period have fallen to $12 million compared with $325 million in the comparable period a year ago....
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Posted on July 8, 2021

US Will Increase Pistachio Exports

In 2021, production of pistachios in the U.S. will break previous years’ records. There have been large yields and an increase in the bearing average...
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Posted on July 1, 2021

Tea exports rise in Guizhou province of China

Tea exports rose by 15.2 percent year on year in the first five months of this year in Guizhou Province, southwest China. The customs of the provincial...
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Posted on June 29, 2021

S. Korea’s exports of cosmetics third in the world

South Korea’s exports of cosmetics products increased by 16.1 percent in 2020, making it third in the world for exports after France and the US. Accor...
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Posted on June 21, 2021

Record farm exports forecast from USA

U.S. agricultural exports are projected to reach a record-breaking $164 billion in the financial year 2021. The U.S. Department of Agriculture noted the...
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Posted on June 17, 2021

Top exporting Australian requests Better China relations

Australia's biggest exporting state urged the government to stop antagonising China, the country's top trade partner. Increasing criticism of Beijing is be...
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Posted on June 16, 2021

Italian cheese exports: encouraging data in the first quarter of 2021

Export data for Italian cheeses in the first quarter of 2021, which show a breakeven in turnover for exports compared to 2020 (+ 0.1%) and even an increase...
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Posted on June 12, 2021

Covid-19 disrupts China cargo transport

Guangzhou and Foshan reported new COVID-19 cases, causing disruptions to not just port operations but also cargo transport. The cases in Guangzhou and Fosh...
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Posted on June 4, 2021

China-Central Asia freight train

The railway between Kaiyuan, Southwest China's Yunnan Province to Haiphong, Vietnam had carried 3,003 China-Central Asia freight trains as of Sunday, annou...
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Posted on June 3, 2021

Shipping costs increase due to COVID-19 in Guangdong

COVID-19 peaks at Yantian Port area in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province have reduced the port's handling capacity to one-seventh of the normal le...
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Posted on June 2, 2021

Imports of British cars to Australia slow

British-made passenger car and SUV imports to Australia in the four months this year account for 2.8 per cent of the total, down from 2.9 per cent in calen...
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Posted on May 31, 2021

Covid-19 hampers solar manufacturers in India

Indian solar panel manufacturers kept production levels steady despite Covid-19 lockdowns this year are experiencing fewer sales and rising input costs. Pr...
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Posted on May 27, 2021
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