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Mexican cartels are using more commercial trucks to smuggle drugs across the border, CBP acting commissioner says.

CBP’s Virtual Trade Week symposium kicked off Tuesday with a panel on the advantages of United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

Illinois-based hardware giant joins The Home Depot and Walmart as U.S. retail companies betting big on Mexico’s home improvement market.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: FedEx Logistics expands in El Paso, Texas; Stanley Black and Decker picks Mexico for new plant; Grupo TMM appoints new CEO; CBP officers seize $4 million worth of narcotics.

The ongoing US-China trade spat and subsequent US tariffs on $500 billion of Chinese goods has catapulted Mexico back to No. 1.

President Trump’s new measures are aimed at addressing steel import issues affecting American producers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Shacman’s new plant will be the 12th truck/truck engine manufacturing facility in Mexico, joining Freightliner, Kenworth, Navistar, Hino, International, DINA, Mercedes Benz, Isuzu, Scania, and VW/MAN.

The new factories from Boston-based Creation Technologies, Austria-based Pollmann International and El Paso, Texas-based MFG Solutions, Luxembourg-based Ikano Industries, and Milwaukee Tools will create more than 3,400 new jobs in Mexico.

Five companies recently announced big plans in Mexico, including two new factories and several major expansion projects.

Kyungshin Cable makes wire harnesses used in the automotive industry for companies in Mexico, the United States and Canada.

Mexico reaches an agri-food surplus of 19% in the first half of 2020, with year-over-year international sales increasing 4.26%.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Home Depot logistics center sells for $247M; $4.3 million in fake Air Jordans seized in Dallas; Alfagomma opens Mexican factory; Grupo Gondi chooses Transplace TMS. Home Depot logistics center in Dallas sells for $247 million One […]

OOIDA and Teamsters officials are concerned about violations of cabotage regulations that restrict Mexican trucking companies from making point-to-point deliveries within the United States.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized almost 600 packages of methamphetamine and 14,880 pounds of marijuana at the Otay Mesa border crossing.

Imports of auto parts, passenger cars and commercial trucks into Texas ports declined 23% through the first six months of the year.

“The upsurge of methamphetamine trafficking has become a serious international health and security threat,” said Laredo Port Director Andrew Douglas.

Around 55% of people in Mexico said they shop online to avoid leaving home during the pandemic, according to a new report.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mexican auto production breaks out of a slump; Trump approves a new international rail bridge; a Mexican carrier acquires 25 new Scania trucks; and officers seize more than $2.4 million in cash at San Diego ports.

Arbitrators determined that KCS has the ability to use its Mexican crew members instead of its U.S.-based crews on a nine-mile stretch between the U.S. border and the Laredo rail yard.

FedEx Freight is expanding its freight distribution operation in Laredo, Texas, near the US-Mexico border.