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Growth in Poland Freight Forwarding Market

Poland has become an important player the transport and logistics market. The Freight Forwarding Market in POland has shown a strong growth, helped by entr...
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Posted on July 24, 2019

Romania’s huge agri imports

Romania had the largest corn crop in EU in 2018 but has increased its corn imports in Q1, 2019 by 17%. The country imported over 173,000 tons of corn, c...
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Posted on July 23, 2019

European markets import/export more seafood products

The E.U. is the largest consumer of fishery and aquaculture products in the world. Demand far exceeds supply, so the bloc is increasingly sourcing prod...
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Posted on July 18, 2019

China imports beef from Panama for the first time

Shanghai customs officials have said that the first batch of beef imports from Panama has entered China. The imported beef, weighing 23 tonnes, is one o...
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Posted on July 16, 2019

Kenya’s avocado exports to China to increase

Kenya intends to increase its avocado exports to China by 10% annually over the next three years. Chinese traders are actively seeking new import opport...
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Posted on July 14, 2019

Customs strike team against garbage imports

The Department of Finance in the Philippines has ordered the Bureau of Customs to study the possible formation of a special 'strike team' to guard against ...
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Posted on July 12, 2019

Chickpea exports from Australia down

Australian chickpea exports in May totaled 27,288 tonnes, a reduction of 37pc from the April total of 43,134t, according to the latest data from the Austra...
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Posted on July 11, 2019

Bulgaria traceability of fruit and veg imports

Bulgaria plans to create a register of fruit and vegetable traders and will track importers' goods from the border to the counter. The system will also che...
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Posted on July 10, 2019

Temporary ban on pork imports from Germany

The Department of Agriculture of the Philippines has ordered a temporary ban on pork imports from Germany. It was discovered a pork import shipment from G...
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Posted on July 9, 2019

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

Food Imports for Africa

A South African government official called on African countries to increase trade, particularly food trade, between each other. He said latest research on...
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Posted on June 25, 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

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

Turkey halves import tariffs on US goods

Turkey has decided to halve the additional duties on U.S. imports. The policy was instituted after Washington's announcement that they would decrease tarif...
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Posted on May 24, 2019

Fresh Produce Imports to Spain

Spain's fresh fruit and vegetable imports grew in both volume and value terms compared with the same period of 2018. According to the latest data from C...
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Posted on May 21, 2019

Food imports to Pakistan drop

The country’s food imports dropped by 9.85pc in the first 10 months of the current financial year, as compared to the imports recorded during the same pe...
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Posted on May 20, 2019

US-China trade war

Intermediate goods and capital equipment — such as electric motors, bicycle parts and plastics — delivered to American factories and workshops make up ...
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Posted on May 19, 2019

Concern about fraudulent imports of cashew kernel

Cashew processors and exporters in India are worried about the sharp increase in fraudulent imports of cashew kernels. India produces 6-7 million tonne of...
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Posted on May 14, 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

Knitwear exports from India

Knitwear exports from India during April 2019 are on the increase which is a very encouraging sign, said the chairman of India International Knit Fair. ...
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Posted on May 11, 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

NZ wine exports on track for another good year

Wine exports are expected to exceed growth forecasts for the 2019 export year, according to a recently released report. Modest growth for New Zealand wi...
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Posted on May 7, 2019

Duty-free maize imports to be allowed

Kenya is preparing to allow duty free maize imports from July, to compensate for the grain shortage which has caused the price of flour rise 30 percent in ...
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Posted on May 6, 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

Zimbabwe needs to diversify its exports

The CEO of ZimTrade has said exports from Zimbabwe need to urgently be diversified to narrow the trade deficit. Imports have continued to dominate the e...
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Posted on May 3, 2019

Moe calls for retaliatory scrutiny of Chinese imports

The Premier of Canada Scott Moe has called for a retaliatory measures in Canada’s import inspection regime to alert China of Canada's displeasure. He sa...
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Posted on April 30, 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

Tobacco imports to Saudi nearly halved

The import of tobacco products into Saudi Arabia fell by 43.1 percent last year, apparently due to the implementation of an excise tax. In 2017, Saudi A...
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Posted on April 25, 2019

Ukraine almost doubled imports of citrus in March

Ukrainian consumers are increasingly preferring imports of exotic fruits, although there are plenty of local apples at an affordable price. In March alone,...
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Posted on April 20, 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

China may permit more Brazilian meat imports

China may permit more Brazilian meat imports after important trade talks planned for May, the Chinese ambassador to Brazil said on Monday. He did not sa...
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Posted on April 17, 2019

USA threatens new import tariffs on EU products

The US government has threatened to impose tariffs on $11 billion in imports from the European Union, which may make international trade even more difficul...
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Posted on April 13, 2019

Fruit & veg imports to Spain rise

The import of fruits and vegetables to Spain in January 2019 grew by 11% in terms of volume and by 26% in terms of value compared to the same month of 2018...
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Posted on April 6, 2019

Canada – China soybean exports increased by 80% last year

Soybean growers in Canada are concerned that China will block soybean imports as well as canola, which will mean they have few export markets left. Ch...
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Posted on April 5, 2019

US avocado imports threatened

There may be an avocado shortage in the USA if the President shuts down the border with Mexico, preventing imports of Mexican avocados. The United State...
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Posted on April 3, 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

Namibia stops cabbage & onion imports

Namibia will suspend imports of controlled crops -butternuts, cabbages and onions– between April and August because production in the country is expected...
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Posted on March 30, 2019

Irish grain imports at record record level

Farming groups in Ireland are asking the Department of Agriculture to explain why ship loads of grain are being imported while farmers have grain supplies ...
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Posted on March 28, 2019

Wine imports to China slide in first two months

A Shenzhen-based research firm published a report showing that the country’s wine imports suffered a year-on-year decline of 13% in volume in January and...
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Posted on March 26, 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

Poland and Czech Republic against illegal waste imports

Poland and the Czech Republic are planning to cooperate more closely against illegal waste shipments. The countries signed a declaration about illegal tran...
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Posted on March 21, 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

Exports grow faster than imports in Poland

In January 2019 exports from Poland grew faster than imports for the first time since May 2018. Poland's foreign trade deficit amounted to EUR 100 million ...
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Posted on March 19, 2019

Turkey’s export rise

In February, Turkey had the highest February export figure in the country's history. Exports increased by 5% in the first two months of the year, and impor...
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Posted on March 18, 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

Sweden relieved as port strike cancelled

A strike guaranteed to delay Swedish exports and imports has been cancelled at the last minute. Dockworkers and employers signed a deal which ended year...
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Posted on March 13, 2019

New high for Spanish Wine Exports

Vineyards in Spain should be celebrating, after the publication of export data from 2018. The statistics show that it was a record year for export revenues...
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Posted on March 11, 2019
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