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 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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On today's episode Dooner and Fava are joined by Dean of the C. Lamar and Ann Wright School of Business at Dalton State College Marilyn Helm to talk advancements and opportunities in supply chain education. Plus we're discuss trade wars, USMCA, e. Coli in the romaine…again and so much more....

Year-to-date U.S. rail volumes tumbled 4.8% as macroeconomic uncertainty weighs on rail traffic. Rail volumes so far this year totaled 25.3 million carloads and intermodal units for the week ending Dec. 7, according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR). Of that total, U.S. carloads...

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 Trump administration and House Democrats on Tuesday announced a deal on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement. What Happened? Replacing NAFTA was one of President Donald Trump’s major 2016 campaign promises. House Speaker...

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...

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...

Engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. is shifting more production to plants in Mexico in preparation for updated requirements in the new United States, Mexico and Canada (USMCA) trade agreement. Cummins will move some of its operations from the U.S., China, India and Brazil to Mexico, including its...

Trucks again carried the majority of cross-border imports and exports during the month of September, 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 $64 billion, or 63.1% of all...

When it comes to moving freight across borders, especially between the United States and Mexico, calling it challenging would be an understatement. Forager Logistics CEO and co-founder Matt Silver has made it his mission to bring calm to the chaos involved in cross-border shipping. Silver explains...

It is hard to run a trucking company in 2019. Over 600 companies have shut their doors this year, and plenty of others are struggling just to stay on the highway. In order to stay in the game, these carriers need to be profitable. Surging detention time at shipping facilities threaten that...

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Harvest Sherwood selects Fr8Hub as broker; Arizona-Mexico Town Hall focuses on cross-border trade; US-Mexico law firms partner up; Laredo airport receives $9.8 million...

American Trucking Associations (ATA) President and CEO Chris Spear is spending a lot of his strategy time on Mexico and China these days as trade and tariff negotiations with the two countries take a toll on his membership. During a luncheon speech at the ATA's Economic Summit in Washington, D.C....

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue joined seven of his predecessors at the agency in calling on Congress to vote on and ratify the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), a trade deal with major implications for cross-border trucking. The Sept. 18 letter to party leaders...