U.S. agricultural exports in 2021 maintained China as the top destination, after this Asian nation surpassed Canada and Mexico since 2020. With a year-on-year increase of 18.2%, U.S. sales of these products to the Chinese market totaled $33.721 billion last year, according to USITC data. This was followed
The U.S. government expanded a budget line item to address dispute cases in the Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (USMCA). For fiscal year 2022, the U.S. government Administration requested US$72.1 million for Industry and Analysis. This request was $6.1 million (9.2%) more than the amount
The boycotts against Nike and Intel in China are linked to censorship with Chinese government involvement, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) noted. In China, according to the USITC, the line between grassroots consumer reaction and government-sponsored censorship becomes blurred when online outrage is instigated or amplified by
In 2021, the beer industry in China produced 35.62 million kiloliters of beer in total, according to data from that nation’s National Bureau of Statistics. The statistic considers all corporate industrial enterprises with a core business revenue of more than RMB 20 million a year. But according to
The governments of the United States and Canada questioned Mexico‘s biotechnology approval policies during a summit meeting of the free trade agreement between the three nations (USMCA). Both the United States Trade Representative, Katherine Tai, and Mary Ng, Canada’s Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and
Private health insurance is not a panacea, but it contributes in a number of ways, highlighted a report released by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Bank. To begin with, the report concludes that two main benefits explain the potentially positive role of private health insurance.