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Cargo arrivals at Port of Los Angeles

The Port of Los Angeles is bracing for a significant 35% reduction in cargo arrivals in the coming week. This anticipated slowdown follows a period of nine...
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Posted on May 5, 2025

China Halts Rare Earth Exports

In a significant escalation of the trade war, China has stopped exporting rare earth materials to the United States. This strategic move by China underscor...
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Posted on April 20, 2025

Norway, Sweden, Switzerland respond to tariffs

In response to the recent tariffs imposed by the US President, Norway has voiced its concerns, stating that the country sends a significant amount of expor...
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Posted on April 15, 2025

India’s Shrimp Exports to US Impacted by Reciprocal Tariffs

Market participants have indicated that the recent implementation of additional duties is likely to have a severe impact on India's shrimp exports to the U...
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Posted on April 13, 2025

US Wine Coalition Urges Hold on EU Imports

As the tariff war continues to escalate, the US wine coalition has called for a hold on EU imports in response to the latest developments. The EU announced...
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Posted on April 10, 2025

The Rush to Import Goods before US Tariffs

Despite the rush to import goods before the implementation of Trump's tariffs, logistics experts have confirmed that shipping companies, freight forwarders...
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Posted on April 4, 2025

China Halts Soybean and Timber Imports from USA

As tensions continue to rise in the ongoing trade war between China and the United States, Beijing has taken further action by suspending soybean imports f...
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Posted on March 17, 2025

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Norway Fuel supplier

In a surprising move, a major fuel company in Norway has refused to refuel US warships, citing their disagreement with President Trump's policies. The comp...
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Posted on March 6, 2025

China and Canada Retaliate Against New Tariffs

The Chinese customs agency has announced that it will halt imports of American logs after discovering bark beetles and longhorn beetles in some shipments. ...
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Posted on March 1, 2025

Exports from Brazil to USA

Freight forwarders report that Brazilian shippers are capitalising on the recent drop in spot rates to book space for shipping low-value commodities, such ...
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Posted on February 18, 2025

US Retailers Boost Imports Despite Tariff Uncertainty

US retailers are increasing imports despite the looming uncertainty surrounding President Trump's proposed tariffs on goods imports from Asia and Europe. H...
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Posted on February 14, 2025

Record Seafood Exports for Norway

In January, Norway achieved a record-breaking seafood export value of NOK 15.3 billion, representing a substantial increase of NOK 1.9 billion, or 14%, com...
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Posted on February 8, 2025

Top ten US container ports

The leading ten container ports in the United States have exceeded the cargo volumes they handled in 2023, according to the latest industry reports. Th...
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Posted on February 4, 2025

China and India Halt Russian Oil imports; Shipping Costs Surge

China and India, two of the world's largest consumers of Russian crude oil, have temporarily suspended their purchases for the month of March. This dec...
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Posted on January 31, 2025

Shippers face uncertainty

Shippers are confronted with a high degree of uncertainty as President Trump seems to have reconsidered his campaign pledge to impose tariffs of 60% on Chi...
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Posted on January 26, 2025

US import tariffs

The implementation of new import tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico, and China, is set to take effect on 20th January. This could lead to significant ...
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Posted on December 9, 2024

Indian Smartphone Exports to US Remain Strong

The United States continues to be the largest market for Indian smartphone exports, with shipments increasing by an impressive 48% year-on-year to reach $3...
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Posted on November 28, 2024

US pet food exports

Dog and cat food exports from the United States to Chile have nearly tripled since 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultur...
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Posted on August 29, 2024

U.S. Oil Imports

The opening of the Trans Mountain Expansion project earlier this year may minimize the initial impact on oil supplies from an expected Canadian rail strike...
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Posted on August 27, 2024

Supply chain providers seek new approach to freight legislation

Unions, maritime shipping interests and other supply chain businesses have formed a new trade group in the USA to push for more domestic infrastructure inv...
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Posted on July 30, 2024

Washington state’s cherry exports

During the peak sweet cherry season starting in June, freighter aircraft operations at Seattle Tacoma International Airport (SeaTac) experience a significa...
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Posted on July 5, 2024

New Zealand exports to USA

The rise in New Zealand exports in May, which was 202 million NZ dollars (123.44 million U.S. dollars), was led by an increase in exports to the United Sta...
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Posted on June 21, 2024

German exports up in April

German exports were up by 1.6 per cent and imports rose by 2 per cent on a calendar- and seasonally-adjusted basis in April this year compared with March f...
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Posted on June 12, 2024

US tariffs on green Chinese exports

The USA's reported plan to levy tariffs on imports from China's emerging industries and its commerce department's decision to add 37 Chinese entities in hi...
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Posted on May 17, 2024

Waste plastic exports hit low volume

Exports of recovered plastic from the U.S.A have been on a downward trend for the past few years. In 2023, the amount exported totaled less than one fifth ...
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Posted on April 19, 2024

Peruvian mango exports plummet in the 2023-2024 season – Produce Blue Book

From the beginning of the 2023-2024 until the end of week 10, Peru exported 75,167 tons of fresh mango, representing a drop of 66.9 percent compared to the...
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Posted on April 8, 2024

NZ red meat exports

The Meat Industry Association says New Zealand red meat exports were worth $932 million during February, with demand from the United States helping to off...
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Posted on April 4, 2024

Belgium top import market for Kenyan coffee

Belgium has ousted America as Kenya’s top export market for coffee for the first time in a decade. Belgian Kenyan coffee imports amounted to Sh6.5 bil...
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Posted on March 21, 2024

US spirits exports reach record high in 2023

The Distilled Spirits Council of the US (Discus) showed in the American Spirits Export Report that US spirits exports totalled US$2.2 billion in 2023, up 8...
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Posted on March 1, 2024

USA Wheat Imports Highest in Six Years

U.S. wheat imports are expected to be their highest in six years for the 2023/24 marketing year, according to USDA's Economic Research Service. Several ...
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Posted on January 29, 2024

Air freight rates from China, HK to US, Europe

Air freight rates out of China and Hong Kong to the United States and Europe have returned to levels last seen in September. This is mainly due to surgi...
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Posted on January 16, 2024

USA Investigation into Imports of Unfairly Priced Wine Bottles

On December 29, 2023, the U.S. Glass Producers Coalition, a coalition of U.S. wine bottle manufacturers and American workers, filed petitions to counter un...
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Posted on January 4, 2024

Turkish Textile industry hopes for exports to US

A delegation from the leading Turkish textile/apparel associations recently travelled to the U.S., hoping to boost exports. Over 40 Turkish companies at...
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Posted on October 26, 2023

Weather slows avocado and asparagus exports

Peru, has enjoyed several years of export growth in U.S. markets,expanding market share in fresh produce commodities such as blueberries, grapes, avocados,...
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Posted on September 29, 2023

Japan Seafood Exports

The United States Embassy in Japan if providing proactive support for seafood exports by Japanese fishermen. This comes follows China's comprehensive ban o...
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Posted on September 28, 2023

Drop in U.S. Imports of Upholstered Furniture

After three months of growth, imports of upholstered household furniture into the USA decreased by -7.7% to 109K tons in July 2023. Over this period, impor...
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Posted on September 22, 2023

US working with Romania to increase grain exports

The USA is working with Romania and Moldova to increase Ukraine's grain exports via the Danube river. It is exploring alternative routes for exports after ...
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Posted on September 4, 2023

US seeking alternative routes for Ukraine Grain Exports

The United States has condemned Russia's continued attacks on Ukraine's grain infrastructure and said that the USA was working to identify alternative opti...
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Posted on August 18, 2023

Berries top export for Mexico

In 2022, berries superseded beer as the top agri-food export product from Mexico. Berries surpassed other popular export crops, such as avocados, and...
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Posted on August 3, 2023

Uyghurs: restrictions on US apparel imports from China

In the first four months of 2023, goods from China accounted for only 17.9% of US apparel imports in value, and 30.6% in volume. In 2019, China’s share o...
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Posted on June 13, 2023

Fruit exports

Vietnam has sharply increased sales of fruit and vegetables following a substantial increase in its formal exports of durian, mango, jackfruit, sweet potat...
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Posted on May 31, 2023

Top Export markets for Vietnam

Vietnam's top 10 fruit and vegetable export markets last included China, the United States, the Netherlands, and Malaysia. The general director of Vina ...
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Posted on May 30, 2023

Scotland doubles salmon exports

Scottish salmon exports to Asia have more than doubled by value for the first quarter of 2023. Strong demand from China, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea...
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Posted on May 23, 2023

Norway seafood exports to USA

Seafood exports from Norway to the USA saw the greatest growth in value in the first quarter, showing an increase in export value of NOK 1 billion (€87 m...
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Posted on April 17, 2023

Norway Exports Seafood Worth €3.6bn

Norway exported NOK 41.4 billion (€3.6 billion) worth of seafood in the first quarter of 2023 which is an increase of NOK 7.4 billion (€645 million), o...
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Posted on April 14, 2023

US imposes higher tariffs on Russian imports

President Biden has announced additional tariff increases on a variety of goods imports from Russia worth approximately $2.8 billion. The president rai...
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Posted on March 2, 2023

Mad Cow Disease Halts Brazilian Beef Exports

A confirmed case of BSE has led to reports that Brazil's beef exports to China will be halted beginning March 2, 2023. China is currently the largest expo...
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Posted on February 28, 2023

Container freight storage in USA

Complications are projected for February 2023 with freight being stored on wheeled containers in the USA. Significant volumes are being stored on wheele...
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Posted on February 15, 2023

USA Pork exports gain momentum

November exports of U.S. pork were the largest in 2022 in both volume and value. Data compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF)showed that Nov...
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Posted on January 8, 2023

Champagne exports affecting stocks for 2023

It is thought that 57 percent of all Champagne produced in 2022 was exported. Over 34 million bottles were imported into the United States in 2021. Be...
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Posted on December 26, 2022

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