The world’s top importers of intermediate goods from October to December 2022 were China, with $376 billion, and the United States, with $261 billion, the World Trade Organization (WTO) reported Monday. This was followed by Germany ($147 billion), Hong Kong ($97 billion), India ($81 billion), Japan ($75 billion)
Mexico‘s Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) preliminarily determined the absence of effective competition in the maritime transportation of passengers and roll-on/roll-off cargo in Baja California Sur. In this regard, the market is composed of two services. On the one hand, there is the service of maritime transportation of
Australia displaced Canada as the world leader in canola exports in 2022, with 4,927 million dollars, a year-on-year growth of 123 percent. Meanwhile, Canadian external sales of this product were $4,397 million, down 14 percent over 2021. Other major exporters of canola, also called rapeseed, were Ukraine, Belgium
The U.S. retail carbonated soft drink category grew 14% during 2022 and the ginger ale segment increased 13%, according to Reed’s, Inc. Now the ginger ale segment is a $1.5 billion market. Reed’s believes the growth of ginger ale is primarily due to consumers perceiving it as a
The three prominent factors that reduced new vehicle purchases in the U.S. are the shortage of semiconductor chips, the war in Ukraine and the Covid-19 related blockades that shut down factories in China. As a point of reference, new vehicle purchases in the U.S. market in 2022, at
Today, 90% of the U.S. trucking industry is made up of small, independent carriers that own five trucks or fewer. Nearly 1 million owner-operators own a single truck. Historically, carriers have found it prohibitively expensive to work directly with these small carriers because of the difficulties and delays