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Ex-Im Bank Loans Ford $ 250 Million to Boost Exports
WASHINGTON, DC – / N2N / - The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im) has approved a $250 million working capital loan guarantee for Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. The loan facility will finance $3.1 billion of export sales for over 200,000 vehicles being sold to buyers in Canada and Mexico. These exports [...]
CBP Seizes 20 Pounds of Ecstasy at Canadian Border
Buffalo, N.Y. – / N2N / – U.S. Customs and Border Protection Field Operations today announced the seizure of approximately 20 pounds of methylene-dioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), better known as the club-drug ‘Ecstasy.’ The seizure resulted in the arrest of a Canadian citizen. On July 25, CBP officers encountered Anthony Ighodaro, a 29-year-old Canadian citizen from Mississauga, [...]
April Surface Trade with Canada – Mexico up 32.4% from April 2009
/ N2N / – Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada and Mexico was 32.4 percent higher in April 2010 than in April 2009, reaching $65.8 billion, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The 32.4 percent [...]
Mercury-Waste Shipments to Canada Threatening U.S. Recyclers
MINNETONKA, MN, – / N2N / – A significant volume of mercury-containing waste in the U.S. is finding its way into Canadian landfills because some treatment standards, recovery requirements and enforcement of those standards are less stringent than in the U.S. U.S. federal regulations require that hazardous wastes including mercury be treated using “Best Demonstrated [...]
March Mexico-Canada Surface Trade up 37% Over March 2009
- / N2N / – Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada and Mexico was 37.0 percent higher in March 2010 than in March 2009, reaching $69.9 billion, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The 37.0 [...]
Canada Ups Investment in Windsor-Detroit Border Crossing
OTTAWA – / N2N / – Canada’s Transport Minister John Baird announced an important step to fast-track the construction of a new bridge at the Windsor-Detroit border crossing, which is the busiest commercial crossing in North America. The Government of Canada will increase its financial participation to the project, as part of its commitment under [...]
February Canada – Mexico Surface Trade Up 24.1%
- / N2N / – Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada and Mexico was 24.1 percent higher in February 2010 than in February 2009, reaching $59.5 billion, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The 24.1 [...]
Canadian Government Invests in Rail Safety
OTTAWA, – / N2N / - Canada’s Transport Minister John Baird, Rob Merrifield, Minister of State (Transport), and Denis Lebel, Minister of State for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, today announced that the Government of Canada will upgrade high-priority rail grade crossings across the country — a move that [...]
U.S. & Canada Jointly Rule St. Lawrence River Navigation
Washington, DC – / N2N / – U.S. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation Administrator Collister “Terry” Johnson today affirmed that decisions concerning when to open and close the St. Lawrence River to navigation are governed by long-standing international agreements between the United States and Canada and cannot be subject to unilateral rulemaking processes from either [...]
February U.S. Trade Deficit Increases by 7.4 Percent
WASHINGTON – / N2N / – U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke issued the following statement on the release of the February 2010 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services report by the Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Today’s report showed that U.S. exports in February 2010 increased by [...]
FedEx Intros Electronic Trade Documents Solution
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – / N2N / – International shipping just got easier, thanks to a new solution developed by FedEx. Starting today, shippers will be able to upload their international shipment documentation electronically with FedEx® Electronic Trade Documents (ETD). Activated across multiple automated shipping systems, ETD helps customers save time and money while reducing their [...]
November 2009 Surface Trade with Canada & Mexico Sinks 2.9 Percent
- / N2N / – Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada and Mexico was 2.9 percent lower in November 2009 than in November 2008, dropping to $58.9 billion, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the U.S. Department of Transportation. BTS, [...]
IWD Transportation Seeks to Acquire Brokerage Companies
Phoenix, AZ, – / N2N / – Trucking consulting firm Ahern & Associates, Ltd. announced today that their trucking consulting firm has been hired to procure a brokerage company acquisition candidate for Farmington, MO based IWD Transportation, LLC. Hoping to add to their profitable mix of Midwestern distribution and warehousing companies; IWD Transportation, LLC looks [...]
