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This looks useful: the Houston District Export Council is holding a seminar on exporting to Mexico this February 11.

Global Trade reports that the International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance have reached a contract agreement, averting the threat of a strike at US east coast and gulf coast ports. The agreement remains subject to ratification but is … Continue reading →

With “Day One” of the Second Trumping just two weeks away, businesses are bracing for the impact of the new administration’s promised tariff policies. During the election campaign, Trump frequently spoke of imposing across-the-board 10–20% duties on all imports to … Continue reading →

I’m in the process of updating a Global Market Analysis of export markets for US-made whiskey that we published a few years ago in the B.C. era (before Covid). As part of the overhaul, I’m revisiting the data sources used … Continue reading →

Testing and certification company SGS is offering a white paper that’s potentially of interest to food producers seeking to export. The report describes the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) and the various international food safety standards that support it. Grab … Continue reading →

To celebrate Indigenous People’s Day, Swift Passage is again making a donation to The Language Conservancy to support the organization’s endangered language preservation efforts.

While in London recently I visited the Silk Roads (note the plural) exhibition at the British Museum, displaying a dazzling array of artifacts from across the vast web of ancient trade routes spanning the Eurasian continent from Japan and Korea … Continue reading →

The phrase “going global” captures the excitement and ambition of pursuing customers and markets far from home, but for most product-based businesses it makes little sense to launch export operations by literally selling simultaneously into every one of 200-odd potential … Continue reading →

For the past few weeks I’ve been in Prague, where I’m in the process of setting up Swift Passage s.r.o., our first company outside the United States. A permanent presence in the European Union will enable us to provide year-round … Continue reading →

The US Department of the Interior has awarded a grant of $900,000 to aid the Cherokee Nation in preserving and teaching the Cherokee language. Funds will be used to support immersion schooling, teacher training, and curriculum and teaching material development. … Continue reading →