USMCA

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...

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...

Working with members of OPEC and the potential for offsetting oil shortages using emergency crude reserves should be enough to keep oil prices from spiraling out of control in the U.S., according to the country's chief business lobbyist. Speaking at a press conference on Sept. 16, U.S. Chamber of...

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...

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...

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...

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was the hot topic at the most recent meeting of the Laredo Motor Carriers Association (LMCA). Trucking industry leaders, customs brokers, freight forwarders and trade professionals from both sides of the United States-Mexico border gathered August...

As ratification of the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA) moves forward slowly, a landmark free trade agreement has been signed several thousand miles away on the continent of Africa. While 52 African nations signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), to date 24 have...

Mexico became the first country to ratify the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) when its Senate approved it by a vote of 114 in favor to 4 against on June 19. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador described the ratification as "very good news." "We celebrate the approval in...

President Trump opened the door to placing tariffs on Canada and Mexico again in response to "tremendous shipments of certain products." He made the remarks during an appearance with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on June 20 ahead of a meeting in Washington to discuss trade and other...

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...