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It's contract season in the trans-Pacific trade, and beneficial cargo owners (BCOs) should consider the challenges facing ocean carriers as they make ship deployment decisions that will inevitably affect service [...]

Signs of a turnaround in the prospects of global container shipping companies began surfacing late last year when rates started creeping up through the peak season. Overcapacity, however, continues to [...]

Observes that Eastern Europe, with its cheap labor and high skills, is becoming the world's newest car capital. Overview of the automobile industry in such countries as Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland; Investments in these old Iron Curtain countries, including Toyota's expansion into Slovakia; How the low-cost corridor from Warsaw, Poland to Bucharest, Romania, is one of the world's fastest growing centers of auto manufacturing; How the opening of this low-cost production zone will not just change Eastern Europe, but will spark a dramatic overhaul of Western Europe's largest industry; The gap between East and West.

Computer entrepreneurs are emerging from the shells of state organizations in Eastern Europe to begin the exhilarating yet chaotic process of building a market economy. The situation is much like early versions of a new piece of software--lots of ideas and functionality but not much coherence or integration. Computer analyst Esther Dyson has traveled throughout Central Europe and the Soviet Union for the past two years observing and recording some of the forces and personalities building the new world of computing there. She introduces us to Gabor Bojar, founder of a Hungarian company that distributes Macintosh computers in Hungary and sells software in the West. We learn the history of ComputerLand's Moscow store and the Soviet émigré who returned to launch it. She explains how Autodesk, the fast-growing U.S. software company, is buying valuable software from its Soviet partner and reselling it in the West. Dyson's visits have focused on the small, thus far disenfranchised entrepreneurs and companies. This is not by accident. In the United States, only one big company successfully entered the personal computer business as a big company-- IBM. The players we now consider prosperous giants grew up in the industry. This will be the case in Eastern Europe as well. Western companies willing to take risks on untried and unproven entrepreneurs, rather than sticking with better known (but complacent) state organizations and institutes, will be winners in the long run. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As the international economy becomes ever more competitive, the United States may be missing a bet in ignoring new technology in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Although Americans tend to see the COMECON countries as technologically backward, some large U.S. companies have acquired licenses for highly useful processes and products from those markets. This author points out some of the difficulties of buying technology from the Communist world and shows U.S. companies how to take advantage of the opportunities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Operating an office in Moscow is an experience unlike that in any country in the world," Marshall I. Goldman tells the editors. "What make it so unusual, and the reasons most companies are willing to stick it out, have become clearer to me after spending three months meeting with Western businessmen in Moscow and sitting in on some of their negotiations with Soviet officials." In this article, he writes candidly about the advantages and disadvantages of establishing an office in Moscow or in the provinces, the frustrations of negotiating with the Soviets, the personal hazards, and the kinds of people who make good emissaries for U.S. companies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Saddled with enormous trade deficits and external debt, the Soviet Union and its partners in the Eastern European economic alliance (Comecon) are understandably reluctant to allocate hard currency to new purchase programs for Western plant, equipment, and supplies. Until the imbalance is corrected, there appears to be little prospect of boosting sales to Comecon along traditional lines--despite the Carter administration's professed intentions to encourage "a new beginning" in East-West relations. But opportunities exist for U.S. and Western European businessmen to make major deals if they are willing to accept unconventional compensation arrangements, including counter-purchase of licensed products and other goods; and the terms are negotiable. With the right mixture of imagination and caution, profitable contracts can be arranged. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Concepts such as ‘trade deals’ with the Russians not so long ago rated little or no attention in the long-range thinking of American businessmen. Today, though, ‘the switch from animosity to enthusiasm is a welcome change, but it also requires caution.’ So argues this author, who adds that, in U.S.-Soviet trade situations, ‘the hazards mount rapidly, and many Americans in the passion of the moment have already made injudicious commitments and evidenced a lack of caution that may come back to haunt them.’ [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trade with Russia and her satellite nations is a topic with business, political, and emotional overtones. Because of the importance of the subject, HBR has sponsored this quantitative and qualitative exploration of the pros and cons of such trade, paying particular attention to the experiences of companies engaging in it. The authors are Marshall I. Goldman, Associate Professor of Economics at Wellesley College and Associate of the Harvard Russian Research Center, and Alice Conner, who served as Research Assistant for the International Marketing Institute on this project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Because of the realities of international commerce and the advantages of integrating the Soviet economy into the world economy, we need.... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on East-West trade and the Free World's interest in Japan as part of a military defense strategy. There is concern about the deficit in Japan's sterling account and balance of payments in 1953. Opposition to Japanese trade with countries in the Communist Bloc is due to the West's trade sanctions and the possibility that economic or political cooperation with communist China could result in a security threat to the United States. Topics include the Japanese export program and American economic aid to Japan.

There has been a growing amount of talk and argument about East-West trade. It has been a subject of dissension in Congress, in the policy-making councils of the political parties, and in Anglo-American relations. As yet, no one has taken the lead in working out a sound "middle way." Is a satisfactory quid pro quo possible? Can we find a policy that will give the West the benefits of East-West trade without increasing the relative military strength of the Communist bloc? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the United States' restrictive trade policy with Communist-dominated countries. The purpose of the American embargo policy is to stop all trade between East and West, but Western European countries are reluctant to join. The Western bloc are concerned with: traditional trading patterns that make countries dependent on trade with the East; trade with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe that could alleviate the dollar gap and allow raw materials to be imported from non-dollar areas; and East-West trade that can prevent "price softness" and heavy inventories as well as strengthen commodity prices. Topics include the 1949 Export Control Act, trade with China, and contraband activity.

The article refers to the United States' national security interests in the petroleum industry. Two controversies are: the British government's restriction on American-produced petroleum imports and substitution of "sterling" oil from British-Dutch companies; and lobbying groups' efforts in the U.S. to pass legislation that restricts crude-oil and petroleum-product imports. The issues are foreign trade exchange, embargoes, and bilateral trade agreements against U.S. companies in the sterling area. Topics include the petroleum reserves in the Middle East, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Ltd., Royal Dutch Shell Group, Standard Oil companies, Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Gulf Oil Company, data for U.S. oil reserves, Russia's oil fields, and U.S. war requirements.

Information on the topics discussed at a meeting of the Economic Commission for Europe's (ECE) trade development committee on the East-West trade is presented. Topics include the analysis of business problems, ranging from sharing Yugoslav electric power to shipping citrus fruits without spoilage, Europe's economic status, and drawing of standard contracts for European business. The meeting featured several business experts, including Louis Bayman, J. P. Weyerhaeuser, and Vladimir Nitchkoff.

On a Wednesday evening in June 2016, the minister of international trade, Chrystia Freeland, appeared at the University of Toronto as part of the Liberal government's public consultations on the [...]

Byline: Andy Coyne The government of Canada has announced an investment package to support dairy, poultry and egg farmers impacted by trade deals. The package announced today (30 November) builds [...]

Byline: Paul Penner 'Trade deficit soars to 12-year high despite Trump's promises to wipe it out' - Salon.com, Sept. 5, 2020 Agriculture, are you tired of winning yet? Back in [...]

Byline: Paul Penner 'Trade deficit soars to 12-year high despite Trump's promises to wipe it out' - Salon.com, Sept. 5, 2020 Agriculture, are you tired of winning yet? Back in [...]

Byline: Paul Penner 'Trade deficit soars to 12-year high despite Trump's promises to wipe it out' - Salon.com, Sept. 5, 2020 Agriculture, are you tired of winning yet? Back in [...]

Byline: Paul Penner 'Trade deficit soars to 12-year high despite Trump's promises to wipe it out' - Salon.com, Sept. 5, 2020 Agriculture, are you tired of winning yet? Back in [...]

Byline: Paul Penner 'Trade deficit soars to 12-year high despite Trump's promises to wipe it out' - Salon.com, Sept. 5, 2020 Agriculture, are you tired of winning yet? Back in [...]

Measured in US dollars, Singapore will continue to boast sizeable goods trade surpluses in 2020-24. A coronavirus-induced decline in exports notwithstanding, import compression will be the main factor behind an [...]

The US-Japan trade agreement on goods came into force at the start of 2020. The deal represents the first bilateral free-trade agreement (FTA) involving the US since Donald Trump withdrew [...]

The US-Japan trade agreement on goods came into force at the start of 2020. The deal represents the first bilateral free-trade agreement (FTA) involving the US since Donald Trump withdrew [...]

Measured in US dollars, the merchandise trade balance will remain positive, but a steady rise in the import bill-as demand for consumer and intermediate goods increases in line with a [...]

Event On December 4th the upper house of the Diet (parliament) ratified a bilateral trade agreement on goods with the US. Analysis The US-Japan trade deal represents the first bilateral [...]

In a new report, Technavio revealed that the global webbing market is expected to post a CAGR of more than 6 percent during the period 2019-2023. Technavio provided the following [...]