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The eight-day California port strikes that ended last week led to a sharp decline in trade activity and cost the U.S. billions of dollars, and now the attention is shifting back to the Gulf of Mexico. Imports to the Los Angeles Port fell 18% last month to 142,543 from 173,423 in the prior-year period and were down 22% from January, according to data from global trade intelligence company Zepol. Shipments to Long Beach fell 15% to 109,484 from 129,128 in 2011 and were down 19% from the sequential month. Both ports saw the weakest activity of all but one month [...]

BEIJING China’s export growth quickened in October and the pace of imports held steady, adding to signs the domestic economy is stabilizing and weakening the case for further policy measures to boost activity. Customs data showed exports in October rose 11.6 percent from a year earlier, higher than market expectations for a rise of 9 percent and stronger than the 9.9 percent annual increase recorded in September. Imports rose 2.4 percent year on year in October, below market forecasts for a 3.1 percent increase but maintaining the same pace of growth as September. The rise in exports was the strongest [...]

Several justices on the U.S. Supreme Court voiced concern on Monday about letting U.S. copyright holders block the resale inside the country of products they make elsewhere, in one of the court’s biggest copyright cases in years. The case, likely to result in a close decision, could profoundly affect the roughly $ 63 billion gray market, in which third parties import brand-name goods protected by trademark or copyright into the United States. It also gives the court a chance to delineate copyright protections at the very time that products and information from international sources become much more freely available, whether [...]

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