Paraguay’s exports to Russia surged 50.75%, while Uruguay’s exports rose 34.11% this August compared to the same month last year. September’s trade data indicates more modest gains, with Uruguay’s exports to Russia up 12.09% and Paraguay’s increased 6.90% over...
The latest trade data from Argentina shows continued strong growth in its beef as well as other food exports to Russia this September, with frozen, boneless, beef up 375% compared to the same month a year ago. At the same time, an extreme weather-driven contraction in...
Just before Russia countered sanctions for its role in the Ukraine crisis with a ban on food imports from the US, EU, Canada, Australia, and Norway, it was reportedly lining up alternative sources for meat, poultry, fish, fruits and vegetables. Latin America, in...
Russian consumers will likely top the list of losers under Moscow’s one-year ban on all meat, fish, poultry, dairy, fruit and vegetables imports from the US, the EU, Canada, Australia, and Norway, effective August 7, 2014. Or, as the New York Times put it, Russia...
Whether it’s a champagne toast to Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité on La Fête du 14-Juillet, or an aperitif before, a bottle of wine during, or a brandy after dinner, Americans like to fill their glasses with French imports. Indeed, France is the leading source for US...
The Wall Street Journal looks at the trends that have lifted sales of quinoa over the last five years … and cites trade statistics from Datamyne that measure the surge in imports and price of the Andean grain. For most of the three decades that Ancient Harvest has...
Is it serendipity or part of the Plano Brasil Maior to expand markets for Brazilian products? The World Cup’s opening day is also International Cachaça Day. Cachaça is Brazil’s national (distilled) spirit. And it is indeed one of the export products promoted by the...
Global demand is on the rise for whiskey, especially Tennessee whiskey, the fastest-growing category. Sales, foreign and domestic, are outpacing production at least 2 to 1, reports The Tennesseean – and the production process (requiring two-years of aging, at minimum)...
It’s a textbook case in the need to diversify sources of supply: The US imports about 97% of its limes from Mexico and, right now, limes are a scarce and expensive commodity in Mexico. Disease and bad weather have combined to reduce crop yields, shortages have boosted...
The New York Times reports that a new food is appearing on Passover tables following the Orthodox Union’s ruling that certain brands of quinoa could carry its “Kosher for Passover” symbol. It’s just the latest boost for quinoa, which has surged in popularity as a...
