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Honduras Resisting US Apparel Market Decline (Country Report)
2013-02-01 15:38:00| EmergingTextiles.com
US apparel imports from Honduras saw a shrinkage in volume and dollar terms in past year. This is mostly explained by the lower US apparel market, and intense competition with the emerging Asian countries such as Bangladesh and Vietnam. Our statistical tables provide a detailed view of Honduras apparel export data, with US imports per category in January-November and a comparison with other CAFTA countries.
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Enbridge Resisting Final Clean-Up of Its Michigan Oil Spill
2013-01-28 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate News: Two and a half years after the costliest oil pipeline spill in U.S. history, the company responsible for the disaster is balking at digging up oil that still remains in Michigan's Kalamazoo River. The cleanup has been long and difficult because the ruptured pipeline was carrying bitumen, a heavy oil from Canada's tar sands region. Bitumen is so thick that it can't flow through pipelines until it's mixed with liquid chemicals to form diluted bitumen, or dilbit. When more than one million gallons...
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