Mexico

Kansas City Southern (NYSE: KSU) expects to leverage its operations in Mexico as U.S. and multinational companies take advantage of the country's 2013 energy reform and export crude oil to Mexico. KSU chief executive officer Pat Ottensmeyer said last week that his company was investing in building...

A lobbyist for C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: CHRW) believes the United States will approve the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement sometime between November and March. Negotiations among the three nations to replace NAFTA concluded in September 2018. Mexico has signed the USMCA into law, and...

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Border checkpoint affecting truck wait times; Protestors shut down Houston Ship Channel; Trailer Bridge moves into Mexico market; Texas trucking company indicted for drug...

Mexico, one of the biggest exporters of vehicles in the world, experienced a 12.7% drop in total vehicle exports in August from a year ago. Manufacturers shipped 281,811 units last month compared to 322,779 vehicles in August 2018, according to the Mexican National Institute of Statistics and...

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Officials in Mexico and the United States are discussing expanding a joint pilot inspection program aimed at reducing wait times for agricultural products at the border The program has already been implemented at Port Laredo's Colombia Solidarity International Bridge, where wait times have been...

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: U.S.-Mexico migration deal expires on Sept. 6;  Columbus, NM, gets new improved port of entry; rare invasive beetle species found in shipment of corn; and Marco Grajeda...

Mexico's legislature is considering proposals that would limit the permitted weight of double tractor-trailer trucks — called "fulles" in Mexico — to decrease truck-involved accidents and relieve traffic congestion. Cities across Mexico – such as Monterrey, Puebla, Jalisco and Mexico City – are...

The U.S. Department of Commerce recently issued 31% tariffs on structural steel imports from Mexico and 141% tariffs on steel from China. U.S. officials made a determination that producers in both Mexico and China had dumped fabricated structural steel on the U.S. market at prices below fair...

Potato farmers are asking U.S. agricultural officials for support in expanding export trade into Mexico.  Currently, American potato farmers and exporters are mostly barred from selling fresh potatoes in Mexico due to restrictions by the Mexican government, namely that U.S. growers can only sell...

Cross-border truck freight with Mexico dipped 1 percent in June, compared to the same period in 2018, according to recent data from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics released last week. The new data reported that trans-border trucks carried freight...

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Laredo pushes Mexican government for more air cargo; Cargo theft continues to rise in Mexico; Arizona-Mexico trade up 12 percent; and Texas sheriff indicted for theft...

The iShares MSCI Mexico ETF (NYSE: EWW) is off nearly 3% amid concerns Latin America's second-largest economy is slowing, but like so many other economies around the world, developed and emerging, the central bank there is ready to act. What Happened Banco de Mexico cut rates by 25 basis points...

As part of an Austerity Law passed by the Mexican legislature in May, commerce officials in Mexico recently ordered the closure of six foreign commercial trade offices, including customs offices in Belgium, Canada, China, France, Japan and Uruguay. The order was recently signed by the head of...

Mexico manufactured 104,214 buses, heavy-duty and tractor-trailer trucks in the first half of 2019 (January-June), up 36.50 percent compared to the same period last year. The data was released August 21 by Mexico's National Association of Bus, Truck and Tractor Truck Producers (ANPACT). Miguel...