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The U.S. House of Representatives approved the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Implementation Act (H.R. 5430) by a sweeping vote of 385 to 41 on Dec. 19. The 41 House lawmakers who voted against implementing the USMCA included 38 Democrats, two Republicans and one Independent. Many trade...

Richard Trumka, Head of The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization (AFL-CIO), has endorsed the revised U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. What Happened After The House of Representatives approved the...

Trucks continue to carry the majority of cross-border imports and exports during the month of October, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). Cross-border truck freight between the U.S., Canada and Mexico totaled $68.2 billion, or 64% of all...

A U.S. bill to ratify the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement is back on track after Mexico said it's satisfied with the response of the U.S. government on its concerns related to labor provisions in the bill. What Happened Jesus Seade, Mexico's Foreign Affairs Undersecretary to the U.S...

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 could stall the trade deal.  An annex of the agreement presented in the U.S. House of Representatives on Dec. 13...

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Employees of Mexican carrier Jaguar Transportation — a subsidiary of bankrupt Celadon Group — continue to protest unpaid wages by blocking the company's Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, terminal in order to delay the removal of trucks, according to reports. "In Nuevo Laredo, hundreds — of personnel who...

Mexican carrier Jaguar Transportation stopped its trucking services this morning (Dec. 10) and could be shutting down as part of Celadon's Chapter 11 filing Dec. 9. Several freight and logistics professionals confirmed to FreightWaves that cross-border account representatives for Jaguar...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the replacement to the 25-year-old trade agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico is now ready to move forward to ratification. "There is no question, of course, that this trade agreement is much better than NAFTA. But in terms of our work here, it...

The trade deal pushed to the side U.S./China trade war is now in the forefront on reports that House Democrats and the Trump administration are near an agreement on USMCA. Discussions on the deal have taken over a year now, and if it passes the House before the end of 2019, it would move on to be...

Jaguar Transportation, the Celadon (OTCMKTS: CGIP)-owned carrier based in Mexico, says it will remain operational and continue its cross-border shipping. "Jaguar will operate in the same way it has been working. The situation that Celadon is going through does not compromise this company at all,"...

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Washington's apple exports to Mexico continue to rise; Pharr International Bridge is No. 3 land trade hub in Texas; Marc Kiven joins cross-border freight company Forager...

The U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seeking to remove legal protections for internet firms with regards to protecting their online content as part of the revised USMCA deal with Canada and Mexico, according to The Wall Street Journal. What Happened House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has pushed to drop...

With Christmas less than a month away, shipments of fresh-cut Christmas trees from U.S. producers are in full swing. Oregon leads the nation in Christmas tree production, with 383 growers selling about 4.6 million trees in 2018. Oregon Christmas trees had a sales value of $120.6 million in 2017,...

U.S., Canadian and Mexican officials met in Washington Wednesday afternoon in a pre-Thanksgiving bid to push through the ratification of the United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement. The hastily scheduled talks included U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Canadian Deputy Prime...