The automotive industry led the growth of international trade in the world in the second quarter of 2021. After registering a 10% year-on-year increase in the first quarter of the current year, world trade in the automotive industry soared 101% in the second quarter, with a low comparative
World trade will grow at twice the rate of world GDP in 2021, the World Trade Organization (WTO) estimated. While the WTO estimates that global product trade will climb at a year-on-year rate of 10.8% by 2021, it forecasts market-weighted GDP growth of 5.3% for the same year.
Levi Strauss & Co., one of the world’s largest branded clothing companies, will get its electricity 100% from renewable sources starting in 2025. So far, its own and operated facilities obtain approximately 70% of their electricity from renewable sources. Levi Strauss’s goal is in line with his science-based
The two largest US toy companies, Hasbro and Mattel, collectively own a dominant share of the US toy market, according to JAKKS Pacific. In addition, hundreds of smaller companies compete in the design and development of new toys, the licensing of characters and products, and the improvement, expansion
Silver recycling or scrap silver showed a decline globally in recent years, according to the Sprott Physical Silver Trust fund. First of all, scrap silver refers to silver that has been recovered from manufactured products, melted, refined, and molded into bullion for later resale in the silver market.
Coffee, flowers and bananas were the agricultural products most exported by Colombia in 2020, according to data from the National Tax and Customs Directorate (DIAN). Colombian coffee exports were placed above all, for a total of 2,523 million dollars. Then followed the external sales of flowers (1,411 million