The Services Trade Barometer rose above trend to 105.5, the World Trade Organization (WTO) reported Thursday. That level is above the benchmark value of 100 for the index and above the previous reading of 102.5 in September 2021. From the WTO’s point of view, the rebound suggests that
Mondelēz International has launched lower sugar products as part of its understanding of consumer needs and its offering of quality snacks. The company is working to introduce new varieties of its core products, including new flavor or nutrition profiles based on consumer preferences, such as Cadbury Dairy Milk
Henkel opened a hot melt adhesive factory in the municipality of Guadalupe, Nuevo León, in Mexico, with an investment of 33.2 million euros. Henkel is a commercial and industrial chemicals company headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, and manufactures products at 174 sites in 56 countries. Its largest production facilities
Brazil registered soybean exports to Mexico for a customs value of 298 million dollars from January to May 2022, a year-on-year increase of 4.6 percent. With this, soybean exports in that direction registered a record for a similar period, according to data from the Ministry of Industry, Foreign
China and Vietnam dominated the world’s phone exports in 2021, with a joint share of 51.7 percent. While China’s phone exports were 226,655 million dollars (37.9% of the world total), those corresponding to Vietnam added 82,481 million dollars (a coverage of 13.8 percent). Despite the severe impact of
TSMC plans to invest 2.8 billion dollars in China to increase the production of semiconductor chips used in automobiles, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said. Worldwide auto unit sales grew 3% in 2021, buoyed by a strong recovery in final demand but capped by