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SMU Note: Imports by Port & Survey Data in Website
Written by John Packard
September 19, 2014
The following articles are for our Premium level customers. Thank you again for your business.
We also want you to know that the latest imports by product, port and country are in the website (must be logged in as Premium customer in order to access the data) as is our latest Survey data which was just completed late yesterday.
John Packard, Publisher
John Packard
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