Background: Commodity trading has been the epicenter of economic growth for thousands of years, dating back to 4,500 BCE. In the civilization known as Sumer, citizens would use clay tokens sealed in a clay vessel as a medium of exchange for goats. Clay writing tablets indicated the number of clay tokens inside each sealed vessel,
A global shortage of shipping containers has recently hurt U.S. exporters. The Ocean Shipping Container Availability Report (OSCAR), a weekly record detailing the availability of marine shipping containers at 18 different intermodal locations, illustrates a decline in container volume at major domestic break-in-bulk points, such as Chicago and Kansas City. Although seasonality may partially account
Tatiana Bertolo, Office of Small Business Thinking about entering the exporting world can sound like a daunting task to many small business professionals and executives. However, many do not realize the substantial number of resources and information out there such as guides, checklists, tip sheets, on-call trade specialists, online classes, etc., that can help
April 11, 2017 Suhail Karim Beg, Business Development Specialist, Office of Small Business Fraudulent collection scams come in many different forms. One of the biggest claims ever experienced by the trade credit insurance industry was the result of internal fraud leading to bankruptcy. The financial collapse of OW Bunker in 2014 sent financial shock waves
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