CHINA-LATAM

Decade of the Panda?

January 2010 | John Price, Shanghai

Before China can deliver on its promise of massive investments in Latin America, Chinese companies need to overcome their fear of Latin American volatility and political risk. And Latin America needs to prepare more cross-border suitors to bridge the cultural divide.

From Metals to Memory, Dumping Makes a Comeback

March 2009 | John Price & Evette Treewater, Miami

Falling global demand for commodities produced a tsunami of new antidumping investigations in 2008. As the economic crisis take hold worldwide, this trend is spreading to a new generation of commodities – tech components.

The Weak Link in Trade Promotion: SMEs and Export-Oriented Clusters

June 2008 | Enrique Orellana

A recurring criticism of government-led trade promotion schemes is that they tend to be poorly targeted and, as a result, theirreal impact on export growth is negligible, particularly in the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector. Given the considerable amount of government resources invested into these activities, they have increasingly come under scrutiny and greater pressure to produce a return on the investment.

Latin America: Friend or Foe to American Agribusiness?

July 2007 | John Price

Presented at the annual AGTC meeting in San Francisco, June 8th, 2007

American agriculture exports have stopped growing, in spite of record global demand spurred by growing affluence in developing countries. America’s declining presence in global food markets is owed to diminishing competitiveness of American exports, the result of higher handling and transportation costs facing American farmers whose products historically entered every market around the globe. The US domestic transportation system is increasingly configured to handle in-bound containerized value added imports, to the neglect of the agriculture sector that not so long ago was the largest customer of US rail and maritime shipping services.