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U.S. Trade Deficit Increases by the Billions as Oil Imports Rise
2013-03-07 16:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox: Due to a big jump in oil imports and slump in exports, the U.S. trade deficit widened in January to $44.4 billion. On Thursday the Commerce Department said the deficit rose by 16.5 percent from December. U.S. exports dropped 1.2 percent to $184.5 billion, reflecting declines in sales to Europe, China, Japan and Brazil. Imports rose 1.8 percent to $228.9 billion as oil imports surged 12.3 percent. Yet despite the wider deficit in January, economists still believe the deficit this year will narrow...
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Science-Based Trade Decisions vs. Russia/China Ractopamine Actions
2013-03-07 15:41:00| National Hog Farmer
The U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) provides an in-depth analysis to help explain some of the details behind recent decisions by Russia and China to restrict imports of pork and beef from the United States. read more
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Canada: Bid to halt polar bear trade fails
2013-03-07 07:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The export of polar bear skins, teeth and paws from Canada will continue unabated after a bitter debate at the world's biggest wildlife summit ended in defeat for a US proposal to outlaw the trade. The US, strongly supported by former cold war foe Russia, had argued that while climate change and the increasing loss of the Arctic sea ice on which polar bears hunt was the greatest threat to the 20,000 remaining in the wild, hunting was an intolerable additional pressure. The US delegation leader...
EU and Canada Sign Agreement on Safer Trade Cooperation
2013-03-07 03:39:09| Expeditors Newsflash - Europe-Africa Edition
Expeditors Newsflash - Europe-Africa Edition
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Conservation body rejects polar bear trade ban
2013-03-07 01:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A proposal by the United States to ban cross-border trade in polar bears and their parts was defeated Thursday at an international meeting of conservationists, marking a victory for Canada's indigenous Inuit people over their big neighbor to the south. Delegates at the triennial meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, rejected Washington's proposal to change the status of the polar bear from a species whose trade is merely regulated, not banned. The...
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