Purchases of fruit and vegetables by the American nation will go from $8.3 to $9 billion between January and August 2014.
The Department of Agriculture in the United States has recorded increases in imports of fresh and processed vegetables, processed fruits and juices, confectionery, meat and derivatives of chocolate and coffee.
From an article by the Costa Rican Foreign Trade Promotion Office (PROCOMER) has:
FOB exports of general goods registered growth of 10.5%, while CIF imports of general merchandise increased by 5.4%.
Summary of the Report on General Merchandise Foreign Trade, by the Central Bank of Honduras:
FOB exports of general goods recorded a growth of 10.5% in December 2012, attributed to an increase of $305 million in exports of non-traditional products and $113.3 million in traditional products.
Foreign sales of Honduran bananas during the first two months of 2012 exceeded by $25 million sales in the first two months of last year.
A 'Trade Report' by the Central Bank of Honduras said that banana exports brought in revenues of $76.2 million in the first two months of 2012, surpassing the $52 million in the same period last year.
Therefore, bananas remains the second largest generator of foreign exchange, just behind coffee, which meant income of $398 million in the period.
Rising prices of meat caused by cattle smuggling from Guatemala to Mexico could be solved by imports from Nicaragua or Honduras.
The president of Guatemala, Otto Perez Molina, admitted the possibility of importing meat from Nicaragua and Honduras as a final solution to the rising price of meat, which has been fueled by cattle smuggling to Mexico, given the high prices in the northern nation.
In the first half of the year both Guatemala's exports and imports showed growth.
According to Guatemala's central bank (Banguat), exports increased 8.1%. Meanwhile as of June this year imports already totaled $150 million compared with $262 for the whole of 2009.
"These figures from Banguat suggest that in the first half of 2009 there was a drop in imports and exports between Guatemala and Honduras, probably caused by the world economic crisis, more than the Honduran political situation and military coup staged on 28 June 2009," reports Sigloxxi.com.
From 2007 to 2008, wine and liquor imports from different parts of the world increased by $648.90 million.
Data provided by the Executive Directorate of Revenue (DEI) published by Hondudiario.com indicated that the volume of imports by both Honduran entrepreneurs and foreigners meant a tax collection of $53 million for the entity.
"Data from the DEI report also pointed out that up to March 25, 2009 there have been over 292.047 billion Lempiras in imports. This meant tax collection of more than 19.857 billion Lempiras for the first three months of the year."
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