Posts Tagged ‘exports’
The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade and the U.S. Commercial Service are sending a trade delegation to the largest mining exhibition in Latin America. The group will be going to “Expomin 2012,” in Santiago, Chile, from April 7 to 14. Martha Butwin, senior international trade specialist from the federal Commercial Service, will [...] [...]
U.S. Solar Industry exported $5.6 billion last year, according to the U.S. Solar Energy Industry Association. The biggest export item was photovoltaic components, which accounted for more than 99 percent of last year’s exports, with solar heating and cooling equipment claiming the remainder. For the manufacturing industry, 2010 was a record year for the photovoltaic [...] [...]
Why do so many (most?) business reporters and television talking heads, along with a boatload of economists, get the story dead wrong on trade? Whenever the latest U.S. trade numbers — i.e., exports, imports and the trade balance — are released, if imports are up and the trade deficit expands, a cacophony of voices spout [...] [...]
Colorado’s agricultural exports rose $169 million or 27.7 percent during the first nine months of 2010 compared to the same period in last year. The total value of exports jumped to $778 million from $609.2 million in 2009. Each of the top agricultural sectors in the state reported an increase in the first three quarters of [...] [...]
A decline in exports and a sharp rise in imports pushed the U.S. trade deficit in June to its widest point since October 2008, raising new concerns about the weakening economic recovery. The $49.9 billion gap is worrying economists, who fear it means the U.S. economy grew at half the rate in the April-to-June quarter [...] [...]
The tourism industry stands to gain attention and traction from the U.S. Export Council’s plan to double exports over the next five years — at least the U.S. Travel Association thinks so. President Obama has appointed two members of the Travel Association’s board of directors, Glenn Tilton, CEO of United Airlines, and Bob Iger, CEO [...] [...]
While many small businesses are in survival mode during the current economic downturn, there are still strategic decisions that can be made today which may have a positive impact on this year’s bottom line. Small businesses account for 30 percent of all U.S. exports — a staggering $500 billion per year. The fastest growing segment [...] [...]
The high-tech industry annually brings Colorado billions of dollars in revenue and represents one of its top export products. The sector — including computers, semiconductors, electro-medical equipment and industrial electronics — generated $2.9 billion for Colorado during 2008. That, however, was an 8 percent decrease from 2007 and far off the 2006 high of $4.3 [...] [...]
High-tech industry exports totaled $223 billion nationally during 2008, an increase of 1 percent compared to 2007. While long-term analysis shows an increase of 38 percent since 2002, high-tech exports have decreased in four subsectors: computers and peripheral equipment, consumer electronics, semiconductors and industrial electronics. Those decreases, however, have been partially mitigated by increases in [...] [...]
During 2008, Colorado was the No. 1 supplier of beef and beef variety meats to Canada, the No. 2 supplier to Japan and Mexico and the No. 1 supplier of fresh chilled beef to Korea. For the first time, beef exports from Colorado exceed levels reached prior to the closure of most major U.S. beef markets during [...] [...]
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