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Noi Mahoney Sunday, August 16, 2020

Borderlands: Home Depot logistics center sells for $247M; Mexico-bound bootleg sneakers seized in Dallas

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 […]

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Noi Mahoney Thursday, February 13, 2020

Truck carrying $30 million in liquid meth seized in El Paso

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents working at the Ysleta port of entry in El Paso, Texas, seized 1,543 pounds of liquid methamphetamine Wednesday.  CBP spokesman Roger Maier told FreightWaves the liquid methamphetamine “would have an estimated street value of $30 million.”  The liquid methamphetamine was reportedly hidden in a shipment of cleaning supplies […]

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Noi Mahoney Thursday, January 2, 2020

Mexican tomato exporters say their produce is virus free

Mexican tomatoes being detained at the border for longer inspections is “unjustified,” according to agricultural officials in Mexico. Víctor Villalobos Arámbula, Mexico’s secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER), said 43 truckloads of Mexican tomatoes have been detained at the U.S.-Mexico border since Nov. 18 as part of stepped up inspections against the tomato brown […]

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Noi Mahoney Thursday, October 24, 2019

U.S. Commerce Department announces new anti-dumping investigation of Mexican steel rebar

The U.S. Department of Commerce has opened an inquiry into whether companies are circumventing anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders on steel rebar from Mexico by bending the product “at one or both ends.”  The Commerce Department press release announcing the inquiry did not specify which companies are being investigated. Mexico was the fourth-largest foreign supplier […]

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