Florida Internaional Trade Articles

Ecuador’s ambassador to the U.S. defends Andean trade preferences for her country

Imports and foreign trade can raise the temperature in communities as posing a threat to local businesses and jobs. But a new report from the OECD confirms that trade actually plays a powerful role in contributing to rising incomes and creating jobs.

House Speaker John A. Boehner said on Tuesday that the possibility of American disengagement from Latin America poses the greatest threat to unity and democracy in the region.

Gov. Rick Scott recently signed a resolution proclaiming Florida World Trade Month, for the first time bringing a statewide approach to what has largely been a South Florida focus — the annual roster of events promoting increased international trade as a powerful driver of economic growth.

NEW YORK — U.S. stock market futures held on to modest gains Friday after the government reported, as expected, that economic growth slowed in the first three months of the year.

Multi national firms are complaining that American restrictions on work permits and delays and difficulties securing visas are preventing them from moving highly skilled workers to their US operations.

The first Cuba-bound "People-to-People" trips since 2003 flew out of Miami, Florida Thursday, August 11.---The inaugural tours are booked through Insight Cuba, which operated people-to-people exchanges in Cuba from 2000 to 2003, when the Bush administration banned almost all American civilian travel to the country as a way of shoring up the U.S. embargo.

LONDON — Bond traders and officials at the European Central Bank have been unified in their warnings that a restructuring of Greece’s debt would set off an investor panic similar to the one that followed the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.