Nearly 95 percent of the world’s consumers live outside the United States, but less than 1 percent of American firms do any exporting, a gap that officials at the American Express Grow Global conference on Tuesday encouraged Maryland businesses to ...

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The Maryland Department of Commerce, seeking to help Maryland companies to export more, has launched an initiative to make that happen. The Maryland Partners in International Trade program (MAPIT) will include representatives from local, state and federal government and academia ...

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When it comes to major cities with an international business presence, New York, London and Paris always come to mind. But a new report shows that there are many smaller cities around the world and in the United States that ...

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The U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration Tuesday announced new export data that shows merchandise exports from the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson metropolitan area totaled a record $5.9 billion, an increase of 2 percent, or $97 million, from 2012 to 2013. This ...

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The Eastern Seaboard is being opened to offshore oil and gas exploration for the first time in decades with the Obama administration's approval Friday of sonic cannons that can pinpoint energy deposits deep beneath the ocean floor.

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Companies are taking advantage of new ways to export oil from the U.S. despite government restrictions, and in the process helping the U.S. become an ever bigger exporter of petroleum on the world stage.

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The U.S. trade deficit widened slightly in January as a rise in imports of oil and other foreign goods offset a solid increase in exports.

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Maryland merchandise exports in the first half of 2013 set a new record, growing 5 percent to $6 billion, from $5.8 billion in the same period of 2012, the International Trade Administration reported on Thursday.

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Merchandise exports from the Baltimore-Towson metropolitan area totaled a record $5.8 billion, an increase of 6 percent or $321 million from 2011 to 2012, according to export data from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Suddenly outsourcing is on the way out and insourcing on the way in as the U.S. trudges unevenly toward President Barack Obama’s goal of doubling American exports around the world by the start of 2015. So far, ...

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