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Orders placed with U.S. factories increased in February, boosted by a pickup in demand for motor vehicles and commercial aircraft.
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By Shobhana Chandra |
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Rhode Island was one of 29 states to achieve record export growth in 2012 with a 4.1 percent increase over 2011, Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee announced Tuesday.
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By PBN Staff
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President Barack Obama pledged to pursue a trade agreement with the European Union that would expand the world’s largest economic relationship, while at the same time completing discussions for a Pacific-region accord.
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By Brian Wingfield |
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Rhode Island export growth is broadening beyond scrap metal.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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Hanna Instruments Inc., one of the world’s leading privately held manufacturers of electro-analytical instrumentation, has opened a new sales and distribution center in Sursee, Switzerland, the company announced Thursday.
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By PBN Staff
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Unless you grew it yourself, the lime in your summer margarita likely came from Mexico and was trucked across the U.S. border, passing between several brokers and shippers, before making its way up Interstate 95 to the supermarket.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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The Coalition of New England Companies for Trade held its first conference 17 years ago in Mystic, Conn., with just 80 attendees. It has grown to have an expected Newport audience this week of up to 275 professionals interested in learning new best practices to confront challenges centered on business importing and exporting.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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Exports from the Ocean State fell 15.4 percent in February to $192.9 million on a month-to-month, seasonally adjusted basis after rising 19.3 percent in January, according to an international trade statistics report from e-forecasting.com.
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By PBN Staff
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Why should businesses looking at expanding their overseas exports target the Middle East?
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By Rebecca Keister |
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Rhode Island announced Tuesday that it has banded with other states and the federal government in a $500 million dollar settlement with generic pharmaceutical manufacturer Ranbaxy that will recover $290,600 for Rhode Island’s Medicaid program.
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By Lindsay Lorenz |