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Noi Mahoney Sunday, July 24, 2022

Borderlands: Nowports aims to be supply chain ally for Latam trade

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Nowports aims to be supply chain ally for Latam trade; US files labor complaint against auto parts plant in Mexico; Tesla suppliers have dedicated lane at US-Mexico border bridge; and Laredo CBP seizes $4.3M worth of meth from tractor-trailer.

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Noi Mahoney Monday, May 10, 2021

First USMCA labor complaint filed against Mexican auto parts supplier

A Mexican auto parts supplier became the first company to receive a labor violation complaint under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on Monday. The complaint against the Tridonex auto parts factory in Matamoros, Mexico, just across the border from Brownsville, Texas, alleges workers were denied independent union representation in violation of the trade pact, which […]

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Noi Mahoney Sunday, May 10, 2020

Borderlands: US supply chains’ future could be tied to Mexico and USMCA; Forager celebrates Laredo’s history as international port

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: U.S. supply chains’ future could be tied to Mexico and USMCA; Forager celebrates Laredo’s history as an international port; CBP aims to keep Mother’s Day flowers pest-free; Dachser Mexico offers new customs house brokerage services.

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Noi Mahoney Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Trump signs USMCA, ‘ending the NAFTA nightmare’

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed into law a revamped pact with Mexico and Canada that replaces the 26-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) “overhauls” the rules for trading agriculture, manufacturing and services with Mexico and Canada, Trump said. “Today we’re finally ending the NAFTA nightmare and signing into […]

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Noi Mahoney Monday, December 16, 2019

Mexico and US mend labor inspector provisions in USMCA

Just days after Mexico’s Senate voted to approve modifications negotiated into the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), U.S. officials introduced a labor enforcement provision that threatened to stall the trade agreement. An annex of the agreement presented in the U.S. House of Representatives on Dec. 13 called for the appointment of up to five U.S. labor inspectors […]

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Kenneth Smith Ramos Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Commentary: Cross-border cargo insurance is a great challenge for North American competitiveness

Editor’s note: Kenneth Smith Ramos is a former chief negotiator for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement for the Mexican government. He is currently a partner at Mexico City-based Agon, Economía, Derecho, Estrategia. The opinions expressed here are those of Ramos and not American Shipper or FreightWaves. One of the main objectives of the new trade agreement […]

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Noi Mahoney Monday, June 17, 2019

Trucks moved 63 percent of trans-border freight in March, up nearly $1 billion, according to data

Trans-border freight totaled $107.2 billion in March, with trucks moving 63 percent of all freight by value with United States trading partners Canada and Mexico, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). Trucks carried $67.4 billion of United States freight in March 2019, compared to $66.5 billion […]

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