Mexico

The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) Rapid Response Subcommittee on Aug. 21 proposed that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) support a "Northern Triangle Trade and Job Promotion Act" to promote exports of apparel, agricultural products and other regional economic staples to...

The United States and Mexico have reached a deal to avoid a tomato anti-dumping investigation, ending a tense tariff dispute that had lingered for months. The deal was first announced by Mexico's Economy Minister Graciela Marquez on Twitter just before midnight August 20, according to Reuters. "...

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mexico's transport industry grows; AIT Worldwide expands Mexico operations; Nuevo Laredo sees more border crossings; and Mexico freight forwarders unveil new maritime...

Truck wait times on the Mexican side of the Otay Mesa port of entry have jumped as the inspection process lengthens, leaving trucks backed up for hours, said officials in Mexico. "Both Mexican and American customs are spending more time reviewing the trucks – with wait times between four and four...

Customs and Border Protection will conduct a test to examine new functionalities for de minimis entry filings in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) beginning no earlier than September 28, CBP announced. The ACE Entry Type 86 Test "will allow CBP to address the growing volume of Section 321...

Survey data points to an economy that is slowing thus far in the third quarter. Manufacturing and service sector data continues to signal expansion in the overall economy, but values in each area have hit multi-year lows.  Data from the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) showed that U.S. factory...

The United States and Mexico are on the brink of yet another trade war – this time pitting U.S. farmers against Mexican tomato growers and importers.  The debate centers around the price of imported tomatoes from Mexico. Florida tomato growers have said the prices of imported Mexican fresh...

The ongoing trade spat with China – and the subsequent U.S. tariffs on over $500 billion of Chinese goods has had another effect on the relationship between the two countries. For the first six months of 2019, Mexico supplanted China as the top trading partner of the United States.  For the first...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/0 Farmers are protesting the national budget produced by Obrador, which cut financial aid to rural farmers by as much as 20 percent. Rural farmers also asked for fertilizer and other goods that they said were promised by the government. "In case the...

The iShares MSCI Mexico ETF (NYSE: EWW) is up just 2.65% year to date, well below the returns of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and the S&P 500. Slumping Mexican stocks could be a sign Latin America's second-largest economy needs some jump-starting. What Happened As has been noted, stocks...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is replacing and expanding its fleet of non-intrusive X-ray scanning machines used to look inside truck trailers and containers entering the country's ports of entry. The machines allow CBP officers to view the contents inside these freight transport conveyances...

Senior officials at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said what "keeps them awake at night" is knowing there are small packages potentially concealing dangerous narcotics and other unsafe products that are slipping past the agency's oversight in the burgeoning e-commerce supply chain.   "...

Shares of a Latin American shale play are up for grabs, as the exploration and production company seeks a U.S. listing this week. The IPO Terms Mexico City, Mexico-based Vista Oil & Gas S.A.B. de C.V. plans to offer 10 million Series A shares, including Series A shares, represented by ADSs,...

As many as 50,000 angry farmers throughout Mexico blocked highways and an international bridge along the Texas-Mexico border on July 17 in protest of the government of President Andres Manuel López Obrador.  The Mexican farmers' protest spread over 42 locations in some 23 Mexican states throughout...

Kentucky-based Legion Logistics has opened a new satellite office in the city of Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico.  The new international office, staffed by two bilingual freight specialists, gives Legion Logistics a strategic presence in the industrial center of Mexico. "It allows us to increase...