Exports

Distorted Prices in Commodity Markets

Otaviano Canuto | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Commodities, Wto, Commodity Prices, Food Products, Imports, World Bank, Exports, Food Prices, World News
Otaviano Canuto

Take the case of the upsurge of export barriers in response to rising world prices of food staples. While a particular country might put in place such a barrier to keep food at home and prices low, the effects in importing countries are negative.

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If It Ain't Broke, Break It: The Crisis Congress Continues

Rep. Keith Ellison | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Corporate Welfare, Export-Import Bank, Corporate Tax Breaks, Small Business, Imports, Reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank, Exports, Business News
Rep. Keith Ellison

If the Republicans are serious about aiding small businesses, then they should be all about supporting the Export-Import Bank's mission.

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The U.S. Export and Import Bank Should Help Finance Sales of Domestic Firms That Compete with Imports

Robert E. Scott | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Boeing, Chinese Exports, Gdp, Imports, Korea Free Trade Agreement, Ex-Im Bank, Exports, Business News
Robert E. Scott

Promoting exports while ignoring the negative impacts of imports has become an executive mantra in Washington. It's time to end that single-minded focus.

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A Populace Pink Slimed

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Weave Corp., Trade Deficit, Imports, Richard Nixon, Exports, National Textile Association, Terry Branstad, Second Annual Conference on the Renaissance of American Manufacturing, Warren Buffett, Ralph Gomory, Pink Slime, Roger Berkley, Trade Balance, Pink Slime Ground Beef, Meat, Pink Slime Meat, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Politicians insisted that identifying slimed beef is not necessary, or even wise, because the fabricated-sans-fat-smashed-meat-scraps-seasoned-with-ammonia mixture is more nutritious. They chose to champion not consumers but slime producers. The reason is obvious.

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China on Your Mind?

Valerie Berset-Price | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: SBA Loans, Export-Import Bank, International Business, US Exports, China Economy, Exports, Business News
Valerie Berset-Price

While it's true that many other countries do not receive as much press as PRC, international economists have identified 11 fast-growing regions where a hungry new middle class is in the making.

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How to Keep U.S. Exports and U.S. Jobs Growing

Amy Liu | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Global Trade, US Exports, Los Angeles Exports, Urban Exports, US-Exports, Business-Trades, Exports, Business News
Amy Liu

Exporting is simply not in the American DNA. We need a massive culture shift. While President Obama's national export challenge has garnered much support and attention, the results remain sobering on the ground.

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Green Technology: The Key to More Jobs, Higher Exports, Cleaner Environment, Better Reputation?

Stuart W. Holliday | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Embassies, Exports, Environment, Usgbc, Diplomacy, Entrepreneurship, Job Creation, Public Diplomacy, Green Technology, Technology News
Stuart W. Holliday

While the days of a quick fix through quotas and 100 MPG retrofitted Priuses are largely behind us, a number of reasoned engineers, businesspeople, and government leaders have quietly moved forward using the spirit of the boom and the lessons of the bust to their advantage.

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For First Time, Top U.S. Exports Are Gas And Other Fuels

AP | By CHRIS KAHN | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: U.S. Gas, United States Diesel, United States Gas, Gasoline, United States Top Exports, u.s. Fuel, Jet Fuel, Exports, Green News

NEW YORK -- For the first time, the top export of the United States, the world's biggest gas guzzler, is – wait for it – fuel. Measured i...

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Ireland Ups Flow of Greatest Export -- Culture

John Lee | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Gabriel Byrne, Exports, Irish Economy, Arts, Theater, Ireland, Music, Imagine Ireland, Culture, Video, Culture News
John Lee

Lacking much in the way of currently accessible oil reserves, rare earths, precious metals, athletic shoe factories or excessive amber waves of grain, the government placed a $5.2 million bet on something hard to quantify -- culture.

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Lynne Peeples

Coal Battle In Pacific Northwest Has Global Fallout

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Video, Powder River Basin, Carbon Emissions, Oil Spill, Coal Dust, Exports, Bellingham WA, Gateway Pacific Terminal, Climate Change, Pollution, Coal, Herring, China, Shipping, Green News

BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- The flyer and I landed in Matt Krogh's Bellingham office on the same October afternoon. I had stopped by to hear why he thought b...

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Bonnie Kavoussi

Which States Would Be Hardest Hit By Europe?

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Virginia, U.S. Exports, Video, European Economy, Europe Crisis, Europe Debt Crisis, Wells Fargo, South Carolina, Exports, Exports to Europe, Sovereign Debt Crisis, Utah, Business News

As fears grow that Europe will slip into a recession amid growing financial problems, some U.S. states are more at risk of feeling the repercussions o...

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Cuba's Economic Reforms Herald New Resolve by Castro; Time for US to Reform Relationship

Michael Shank | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Latin America, Farmers, Trade, President Barack Obama, Economic Reforms, Agriculture, Lula Da Silva, Imports, Brazil, Michael Shank, Rep-Ileana-Ros-Lehtinen, Fidel Castro, Venezuela, Senator Bob Menendez, Center for Democracy in the Americas, President Raul Castro, Cuba, Exports, China, World News
Michael Shank

The US can make some important contributions by acknowledging that Cuba's reforms are real and by ensuring Cubans are getting the cash and credit they need to make use of the newfound freedom to start small businesses.

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Massive Natural Gas Export Deal Inked by BG Group, So Much for Industry's "Domestic Energy" Claims

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: BG Gas, Natural Gas, Fracking, Desmog, Lng, Exports, Cheniere, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

Little did the residents of the rural U.S. communities know, when the gas industry rolled into their communities a few years ago to frack and drill their land, that they were simply pawns in the industry's larger plan to export this shale gas to overseas markets.

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Washington State's Most Important Export: Hope

Tim Hanstad | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, University of Washington, World Vision, Washington State, Global Poverty, International Development, Peace Corps, Exports, Impact News
Tim Hanstad

Countries around the world, from Afghanistan to Uganda, would be less stable, less secure, and less sure of their future if we in Washington State stopped our good work. And so would we.

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Jon Ward

Mitt Romney's Aggressive China Rhetoric Questioned By Conservatives

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, Yuan, 2012 Republican Candidates, Exports, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Free Trade, Trade Surplus, Protectionism, 2012 Republican Primary, Barack Obama, Currency Manipulation, Video, Republicans 2012, Trade Deficit, Beijing, 2012 Gop Candidates, Mitt Romney 2012, China, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Obama submitted three long-awaited free trade agreements to Congress this month, which were quickly ratified Wednesday, but Re...

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China is Not the Problem, It's a Symptom

Georges Ugeux | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Debt, Europe, Globalization, Federal Reserve, Chinese, America, Ipad, Deficit, Wef, Dalian, Washington, US Treasury, Wall Street, Welfare, Chinese Yuan, Exports, United States, Japan, Emerging Markets, Euro, Senate, Imports, Apple, Arab, Foxconn, Protests, US Economic Crisis, Ben Bernanke, China Foreign Exchange Reserves, Domestic Manufacturing, China, Wen Jiabao, Business News
Georges Ugeux

The vote by the U.S. Senate to proceed with sanctions to "punish" China for its currency policy is hypocritical and is a further sign of Washington's inability to deal with U.S. economic problems.

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Free Trade Deals Will Export American Jobs, Not American Products

Rep. Ted Deutch | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Fair Trade, Politics News, Congress, Trade Deficit, Nafta, South Korea, Trade, Panama, Exports, Globalization, Manufacturing, Free Trade, Jobs, Florida, Democrats, China, Politics News
Rep. Ted Deutch

In the midst of unprecedented long-term unemployment, I cannot support trade agreements that repeat the mistakes of previous trade deals that shipped millions of American jobs overseas.

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Export Drop Shows Need for New Trade Strategy

James Bacchus | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: International Trade, Free Trade Agreements, Economic Recovery, Doha Development Round, Global Economy, World Trade Organization, Imports, Trade, Doha Round, Exports, Obama, Wto, Trade Agreements, FTA's, Business News
James Bacchus

Turning up the heat a little more in this long hot summer of our national discontent is the news that American exports are declining.

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A Second Life for Unwanted Clothing

Mattias Wallander | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Thrift Stores, Recycling, Clothing, Recycle, Wholesalers, Second-Hand-Clothing, Exports, Environment, Global Trade, Reuse, Consumption, Green News
Mattias Wallander

Fashions change every season and when we buy new things we have to get rid of the old, outgrown and out of style. Americans consume 65 pounds of new clothes per person each year and discard a total of 25.4 billion pounds of textiles annually.

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U.S. Imports Hit Second-Highest Level On Record

Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Newly-Industrialized-Economies, Gdp, Imports, Trade, High Energy Prices, Opec, Exports, Manufacturing, European Union, Petroleum, China, Barack Obama, Video, Business News

WASHINGTON (Doug Palmer) - The U.S. trade gap widened much more than expected in May as a jump in oil prices helped push imports to the second hig...

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No Longer Free Press

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Tax Cuts, Globalization, Value-Added-Tax, Media, National Debt, Nafta, Trade War, Exports, Politics News
Sen. Fritz Hollings

When the press finally wakes up and reports how we can win this trade war, how we can rebuild America, it will probably report that those for the value added tax approach "were ahead of their time."

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Serious About Governing

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Taxes, General Electric, Offshoring, Intellectual Property, Corporations, Exports, Willie Sutton, Grover Norquist, Capitalism, China, Politics News
Sen. Fritz Hollings

President Obama is not serious about creating jobs. Practicing free trade against controlled capitalism in globalization is like playing touch football against tackle football.

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Struggling Walmart Finds Early Success In Scaled-Down Stores

Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Sam Walton, Arkansas, Walmart, Imports, Bill Simon, Exports, Grocery Stores, Walmart Express, Free Trade, Walmarket, China, Video, Business News

CHICAGO (Jessica Wohl) - After hitting a couple of easy layups by opening small stores in its home state, Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) is ready to ...

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Dear Entrepreneurs, Be Global: Export Now

Daniel Isenberg | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Puerto Rico, Entrepreneurship, Exports, President Obama, Small Business America, Business News
Daniel Isenberg

By embedding a "global DNA" early on, even if you decide to take new markets one step at a time, you will find the transition from local to global a much less painful one.

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The Emerging Bright Spot in Europe

Antonio Borges | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Markets, Economic Output, Current Account Deficits, Investment, Exports, Capital Inflows, Growth Potential, Boom-Bust Cycle, Credit Default Swaps, Economic Growth, Macroeconomic Policies, Structural Policies, Consumption, Asset Price Bubbles, Domestic Demand, Business News
Antonio Borges

it will take a while before most crisis-hit countries will be able to reclaim the economic output that was lost as a result of the crisis. But things are definitely going in the right direction.

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