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Cross-Border Training Program Saving Commercial Truck Drivers
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Commercial truck drivers in Mexico who go through a new Arizona cross-border program are less likely to be flagged for safety violations when they show up at ports of entry, officials said.
January 26, 2018Trade Expert: Mexican Truck Ban Wouldn’t Have Much Impact
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A possible ban on long haul trucks from Mexico under a renegotiated North American Free Trade agreement won’t have much impact, according to a trade expert in New Mexico
November 13, 2017NAFTA Deadlock Dashes Hopes for a Quick Deal
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NAFTA talks are switching gears and slowing down as key obstacles emerge, with Canada and Mexico rejecting what they see as hard-line U.S. proposals and negotiators exchanging their strongest public barbs yet.
October 18, 2017Mexico and Canada Reject US NAFTA Demands
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The ministers leading NAFTA negotiations ended the latest round of high-level talks saying they’re extending discussions into the first quarter of 2018 to resolve differences after Canada and Mexico rejected what they see as hardline U.S. proposals.
October 17, 2017Commercial Processing at Tornillo US-Mexico Port of Entry Suspended for ‘Lack of Demand’
Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Former Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker walk across the Tornillo-Guadalupe Port of Entry and International Bridge Feb. 4, 2016. Photo by Jetta Disco, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
In the years leading up to the construction of an about $133 million port of entry in Tornillo, Texas, county leaders talked about the need for a bridge that would alleviate commercial traffic at other border crossings in El Paso.
October 17, 2017NAFTA Talks Left Reeling After Aggressive US Proposals Land
Photo by Glenn Fawcett, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
After laying out the Trump administration’s most aggressive NAFTA demands to date, chief U.S. negotiator John Melle was asked on Oct. 15 how things are progressing. “Fabulous,” he said, smiling and shrugging before entering a negotiating room once more.
October 16, 2017US Offers Proposal That Could Kill NAFTA in Five Years
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U.S. negotiators on Oct. 12 presented a proposal for a so-called “sunset clause” that would see the North American Free Trade Agreement expire after five years unless the parties can agree to extend it, according to two people familiar with the talks.
October 12, 2017Trump’s ‘Poison Pill’ NAFTA Proposals Threaten to Derail Talks
Olivier Douliery/ Abaca Press/TNS
NAFTA talks have resumed with the U.S. administration looking increasingly isolated in its proposals to change the trade pact, as key figures raised the prospect of a collapse in negotiations.
October 11, 2017Joint US-Mexican Truck Inspections to Speed Up Trade at Otay Mesa Border Crossing
Sam Hodgson/Bloomberg News
A maddeningly slow inspection process that can make crossing the border an ordeal lasting as long as six hours for trucks carrying cargo from Tijuana to San Diego soon could be dramatically speeded up.
October 9, 2017US Demands Risk Scuttling NAFTA Talks
Photo by Josh Denmark, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. officials in NAFTA negotiations are making proposals on battleground issues that Canada and Mexico would never agree to, intensifying doubts of reaching compromise on their tight timeline, according to three officials familiar with the talks.
September 29, 2017