by Brian J. McCormick, guest columnist In September’s column, we compared first-quarter with second-quarter best and average prices for the basket of 10 chemical commodities that make up the Datamyne US Best Price Benchmark (posted to the Datamyne homepage). This...
December’s string of acquisitions in the global logistics sector – including Berkshire Hathaway’s acquisition of Charter Brokerage, FedEx’s of GENCO, C.H. Robinson’s of Freightquote.com – seems likely to stoke this year’s trend to more M&A activity in transport,...
Can trade and logistics remake Florida? GIS WebTech has shared with us (via twitter) a story from Brookings that raises this question – and answers with an emphatic yes. As Brookings points out, many of Florida’s metro areas have yet to recoup the job losses sustained...
Our latest trade data confirms that the California drought’s toll on almond harvests has resulted in decreased export volumes – down nearly 13% in October compared with the same month a year ago. At the same time, the shortage appears to have driven up prices enough...
This caught our eye in the story about the reboot of US-India trade relations: Almonds round out India’s top five imports from the US. Almonds are an export success story for the US – and for California in particular. In fact, almonds are a leading US export crop,...
Earlier today, US Trade Representative Michael Froman surveyed recent progress toward liberalizing trade achieved by India and the US in a speech to the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Froman is in New Delhi to co-chair with India’s Trade...
New trade data field offers US$ value of shipments with breakouts by HS tariff code MIAMI – November 20, 2014 - Datamyne has added a key field to its US import bill-of-lading trade data: the calculated value in US dollars of the cargos received at US ports. The newest...
Trade data first published by the Datamyne blog figures in an article in Seeking Alpha about an apparent discrepancy between the number of battery-powered cars Tesla says it’s delivered, and the numbers reported by independent sources. The analysis, by Michael Blair,...
In just 20 years, Lumber Liquidators has grown from one entrepreneur’s idea – buy excess wood from construction sites and sell it at a deep discount – to a nationwide retail operation giving Home Depot and Lowe’s plenty of competition in the flooring market. American...
The US share of world rice production may be tiny at less than 2%, but the country plays an outsize role as an exporter, accounting for more than 10% of global rice trade. Indeed, exports are hugely important to US rice growers, accounting for nearly half of...
