The International Trade Administration announced Tuesday that Maryland merchandise exports increased 9 percent in 2012 compared to 2011, growing to $11.8 billion from the prior year's $10.9 billion.

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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined last week to engage in a “searching review” of the way the United States government restricts the importation of cultural items.

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The fifth-largest container shipping company in the world is beginning a weekly container service to the Port of Baltimore that could create nearly 600 new jobs for Maryland. German company Hapag-Lloyd is expected to bring up to 30,000 containers through ...

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SCITUATE, R.I. — Four Syrian men are facing charges they participated in a cigarette smuggling ring in Rhode Island that relied on cigarettes from southern states with lower cigarette taxes to swindle the cash-strapped Ocean State out of an estimated ...

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SALISBURY — An Eastern Shore seafood company is partnering in an effort to ensure the sustainability of Asian crab harvests. Salisbury-based Handy International says is working with a dozen other U.S. importers of crabmeat from Indonesia and the Philippines. The ...

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Maryland’s chicken industry is ruffled and Sen. Barbara Mikulski is indignant at a plan by China to raise poultry import tariffs by more than 100 percent. Mikulski fired off a letter to U.S. Trade Rep. Ron Kirk and Secretary of ...

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