All Entries Tagged With: "Mexico"
USA Submits to Blackmail
by Sandy Long – / N2N / – It is amazing that the United States of America bows down to economic pressures from a third world country to allow hundreds, if not thousands, of foreign trucks and their drivers into the country to take freight out of US driver’s trailers. This after the American people, [...]
783 Pounds of Marijuana in False Wall of Refrigerated Trailer
Calexico, Calif. – / N2N / – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Calexico cargo port of entry yesterday discovered 783 pounds of marijuana in a false front wall compartment of a refrigerated trailer pulled by a 2000 Freightliner tractor. The driver, a 53-year-old male Mexican citizen from Mexicali, and the tractor [...]
$4.5 Million Marijuana Seized from Big Rig & Rail Car
- / N2N / – Nogales, Ariz. — CBP officers working at the Port of Nogales made two significant marijuana seizures in the space of a couple of hours, stopping attempts at smuggling more than 5,340 pounds of marijuana into the country. “Every day, our officers and agriculture specialists are out on the line, looking [...]
Suspicious Big Rig Activity Tips Feds to Border Smuggling Tunnel
/ – N2N / – San Diego, Calif. – The San Diego Tunnel Task Force uncovered a sophisticated 600-yard underground cross-border tunnel yesterday. Approximately 30 tons of marijuana seized in the U.S. and Mexico have been linked to the tunnel. The tunnel is described as a crawlspace-sized passageway, connecting an Otay Mesa warehouse in the [...]
Mexico Slaps US with Tariffs in Cross-Border Trucking Dispute
MCLEAN, Va. – / N2N / – American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) President and CEO Kraig R. Naasz today issued the following statement responding to Mexico’s announcement of additional retaliatory import tariffs on select U.S. exports due to the ongoing cross-border trucking dispute. “The U.S.-Mexico trade conflict, sparked by the closure of the cross-border trucking [...]
Marijuana Worth $1.2 Million in Trailer, Truck Tires & Rail Cars
San Diego, Calif. – / N2N / – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Otay Mesa Cargo port of entry intercepted three narcotic smuggling attempts on Monday. The first seizure occurred at about 11:30 a.m., when a CBP officer referred a 26-year-old Mexican citizen driving a 1991 Freightliner Tractor to the secondary examination [...]
44 Pounds of Marijuana Hidden in Vehicle Transport Trailer
El Paso, Texas – / N2N / – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Santa Teresa, N.M. port of entry made two marijuana seizures Wednesday, including one bust where the drugs were found concealed in the rails of a gooseneck vehicle hauler. “Smuggling organizations will use every imaginable concealment method to try [...]
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 [...]
Hurricane Alex Damages Tracks Causing Rail Freight Delays in Mexico
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – / N2N / – Kansas City Southern’s (KCS) (NYSE:KSU) rail service in northern Mexico has been disrupted by damage resulting from Hurricane Alex, which made landfall on June 30. The hurricane, which has impacted service on KCS’s primary Mexican rail subsidiary, Kansas City Southern de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (“KCSM”), caused [...]
Semi Container Stuffed with 5000 Pounds of Marijuana
Laredo, Texas – / N2N / - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Laredo, Texas port of entry intercepted more than $5 million in marijuana Wednesday at the World Trade International Bridge. The seizure occurred when a CBP officer referred a 1998 International tractor pulling a 2000 Stick chassis with a container being [...]
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 [...]
Rail Car Busted with $ 9 Million of Marijuana Stashed Under Debris
Calexico, Calif. – / N2N / – On Friday, June 4, at about 4:30 p.m., a commercial train coming from Mexico entered the Calexico downtown port of entry for inspection. Officers with the port’s Anti-Terrorism Contraband Enforcement Team screened the rail cars with an x-ray imaging system that detected anomalies with the gondola’s contents. Packages [...]
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 [...]
