China’s exports (products, not including services) grew 9.5% year-on-year in August and reached 235.26 billion dollars, the Customs Administration of that country reported. China is the world’s largest global merchandise exporter and the second largest importer, surpassed by the United States. From January to August, China’s exports totaled
Cotton production represents 5% of glyphosate use in Mexico, of which 100% is imported and reformulated by Mexican companies, according to a report from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Since November 2019, the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) has unilaterally stopped issuing import
The peso starts the session with a depreciation of 0.13% or 2.7 cents, trading around 21.58 pesos per dollar, once again a general strengthening of the US dollar is observed. The most depreciated currency in the basket of main crosses is the pound sterling, after the Prime Minister
Only Argentina, Australia, India, Israel, Mexico and Singapore add to the list of countries that host plant biotechnology poles and, with the exception of Australia, all of them have only one, revealed a report by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Most of the inventive and scientific output
The United States ranked as the leader among the largest importers of plastic waste in the world in 2019, according to statistics from the World Trade Organization (WTO). US external purchases of these products totaled $ 249 million in 2019. Then they positioned themselves among the main importers
International travel and (low-cost) vacation packages will never go back to what they were with the arrival of Covid-19, as airlines are struggling to survive, and a series of collapses and bankruptcies looms. That’s the conclusion of Bart A. Pattyn, Crisis Manager at Bart A. Pattyn Management b.v.