News — Exporter Magazine

  1. Singaporean supermarkets are expanding the range of eco-products they offer in response to growing demand from shoppers, according to NZTE’s website.
  2. uae-1645740 Indian merchandise trade in 2025 is expected to be USD6.7 billion, almost three times its levels in 2010 — at $338.9 billion with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) emerging as India’s largest trading partner by 2025.
  3. chinaflag-5429492 China’s GDP expanded 9.1% year-on-year in the third quarter of the year, marking the slowest pace since the third quarter of 2009, according to ChinaDaily.com.
  4. The recent grounding of the container ship Rena has highlighted the importance of having a watertight marine cargo insurance policy. There are associated lessons for everyone involved in the seafreight insurance industry.
  5. reshapes-products-0015-1175543 A leading food company has introduced controversial basa catfish from Vietnam to its frozen fish range, according to the New Zealand Herald.
  6. google-9518667 With the launch of its more successful Google+ social networking service, Google on Friday said it plans to shut down Buzz, according to PCWorld.
  7. dairyfutures-3252561 New Zealand’s dairy firms, including Fonterra, are looking to buy up farms in India’s burgeoning dairy sector, but may not find going down that road free of bumps, a new government report indicates, according to FoodNavigator.com.
  8. apple1-3725697 The Australian Federal Court has granted Apple an injunction to block tech rival Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
  9. gecrops-8966183 A survey of visitors from overseas – many in New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup – has found two out of three say New Zealand should not allow genetic engineering in food and the open environment, even though some have mixed views about how Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are used in their own countries, according to Scoop.co.nz.
  10. in-search-of-better-loan-rates-0008-2337538 Under pressure from Congress to do more to confront China on economic issues, the Obama administration has notified the World Trade Organisation of nearly 200 Chinese subsidy programs, saying many of them may violate free trade rules, according to the New York Times.
  11. nyk_small-web-ad-copy-7200215 Blue Whale, a French cooperative of growers and exporters, has had a presence in Asia for a long time, but they are finding it difficult to expand in the Asian market, according to FreshPlaza.com.
  12. chinese-6981691 The trade boom fuelled by Asia’s economic re-emergence will last at least another 15 years but Australian exporters will have to get much more familiar with transacting in the Chinese currency, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, quoting HSBC.
  13. piggy-21-8445083 US pork exports will jump 23% or more this year because of surging demand and prices in China, the world’s top consumer, according to a report in ChinaDaily quoting Brett Stuart, the co-founder of farm-industry researcher Global AgriTrends.
  14. exploring-the-inner-space-takeways-00011-3159468 New Zealand companies are failing to properly exploit Asian markets because they don’t understand Asian customers, said a leading New Zealand marketing academic in an interview with Xinhua.
  15. fixing-a-not-so-great-as-groser-sees-it-0001-8298119 An investigation is under way into allegations by Heinz Wattie’s that Italian preserved tomatoes have been dumped on the market here, causing “material injury” to the New Zealand food industry,according to the Sunday Star Times.
  16. maersk1-6225004 Copenhagen’s AP Moller-Maersk, owner of the world’s biggest container line, says its order for twenty 18,000-TEU vessels will not flood the market with super megaships, as rival say but rather 13,000 TEUers will become common.
  17. butter-3646534 Denmark has imposed a fat tax in attempt to limit the population’s intake of fatty foods, becoming the first country to take such a measure, according to a report carried in Al Jazeera.
  18. usachina-4224676 China must make its farm sector more transparent and fairer to foreign competition, the United States told the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) agriculture committee on Friday, as it reviewed China’s first decade in the world trade body, according to ChinaPost.

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