{"id":6627,"date":"2010-02-10T14:31:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=6627"},"modified":"2010-02-10T14:31:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T18:31:10","slug":"south-floridas-international-trade-falls-12-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2010\/02\/south-floridas-international-trade-falls-12-in-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida\u2019s international trade falls 12% in 2009."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Florida\u2019s international trade fell 12.3 percent last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/trade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6629\" title=\"trade\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/trade-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Total trade \u2013 the value of exports plus imports \u2013 fell to $79.15 billion in the Miami customs district from $90.25 billion in 2008, according to WorldCity, the Coral Gables-based media company that compiles trade statistics. The district includes all airports and seaports from Palm Beach County to the Florida Keys.<\/p>\n<p>Exports fell 9.8 percent after hitting a record high in 2008, the result of a weak U.S. dollar. Imports dropped 16.1 percent for the year.<\/p>\n<p>Analyzing the data on WorldCity\u2019s Web site, company President Ken Roberts noted that South Florida fared well compared to the nation as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are slowly crawling out from under and we\u2019re moving back to equilibrium,\u201d <strong>Jerry Haar<\/strong>, professor of management and international business at Florida International University, told the Business Journal last month. \u201cOnce you hit bottom, there\u2019s nowhere to go but up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/pdf\/printFeb2010\/south-florida-international-trade-falls-12-percent.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">South Florida\u2019s international trade falls 12% in 2009<\/a>,\u201c an article from the South Florida Business Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Florida\u2019s international trade fell 12.3 percent last year. Total trade \u2013 the value of exports plus imports \u2013 fell to $79.15 billion in the Miami customs district from $90.25 billion in 2008, according to WorldCity, the Coral Gables-based media company that compiles trade statistics. The district includes all airports and seaports from Palm Beach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1288,1839],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}