The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has identified nine counterfeit and piracy markets in China in a new report. Overall, China continues to be the number one source of counterfeit goods in the world. Counterfeit and pirated goods from China, together with goods transshipped from China to Hong
As a further consequence of the strong recovery and the current imbalance between supply and demand, commodity prices soared in 2021 and are still high. The prices of many raw materials, which have broken records or reached multi-year highs, continue to rise today. «This is the case of
Despite the less favorable financial conditions, the expansion of productive capacity to face supply difficulties will promote investment in the United States, projected the credit insurer Coface. The investment will also begin to be supported by the infrastructure plan enacted in November 2021. Aiming primarily at transportation infrastructure,
The company Grupo México reported that its Buenavista Zinc project, located in Sonora, is expected to come into operation in 2023. This project is located within the Buenavista deposit in Sonora and consists of the construction of a concentrator with a production capacity of 100,000 tons of zinc
Grupo Simec’s net sales increased 55.1% in 2021, to 55,622 million pesos, with an average sales price increase of 51 percent. Grupo Simec produces, processes and distributes special steels and structural steel profiles in Mexico, United States and Brazil. At the same time, sales in tons of steel
The net sales of eCommerce of Wal-Mart de México y Centroamérica (Walmex) grew 36% in 2021 and the Gross Value of the Merchandise (GVM), 40 percent. For the company, 2021 was a difficult year to predict in all aspects, especially in eCommerce, since it did not know how