Mexican commerce

The year after Nafta went into effect, Mexico privatized its railroads, creating private commercial partners south of the border. In 1999, Union Pacific had $700 million in business going to and from Mexico. Today, that figure has ballooned to more than $2.2 billion, with goods like grain and auto parts going ...

FILE - This April 1, 2011 file photo shows heavy metal rock icon Ozzy Osbourne at a news conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Known as the Prince of Darkness, Osbourne is joining the Chamber of Commerce of Alamogordo, New Mexico. He signed up for the Alamogordo Chamber of Commerce while visiting ...

As the U.S. gained territories in the Southwest that formerly belonged to Mexico, white land speculators illegally seized land owned by Mexican Americans ... George H.W. Bush featured his Spanish-speaking daughter-in-law in a television commercial during his successful 1988 presidential campaign.

Jorge Guajardo, then Mexico's ambassador to China, during an interview at the Mexican Embassy in Beijing, May 3, 2009. .... Activists wearing Donald Trump masks and carrying signs that read, in Spanish, "Racism is not commerce," protest the seventh round of NAFTA renegotiations, in Mexico City, February 27, 2018.

More than 1,300 truck drivers who work in Mexico have completed training through the program, according to an ADOT media release. ... “We are stopping unsafe trucks from driving on Arizona roads, but at the same time we are encouraging international commerce by not unnecessarily delaying trucks by ...

The property is listed for sale for $290,000 on LoopNet.com, a website that lists commercial real estate for sale or lease. The effort to sell the property occurs as another Mexican restaurant, Frontera Grill, recently opened at 1411 Boston Road, at the intersection of Parker Street. There is also a Frontera Grill ...

MEXICO CITY, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Latin America has broad potential to grow its e-commerce, especially in Brazil and Mexico, an executive of Mexico's leading e-commerce company has said. Ignacio Caride, director-general of Mercado Libre Mexico, said Argentina, Colombia and Chile also have great ...

It is important to get the balance right. There will have to be compromise.” In his presentation at the Bridge Connect session, Gonzalez said the fact that Mexico has lower wages than the U.S. is not a major factor in the growth of trade between the U.S. and Mexico. “The U.S. is saying Mexican wages should ...

A man authorities said frequently checked a teenager out of school without her parents' knowledge and fled to Mexico with her is being held on ... Federal agents and Mexican authorities found the married father of four and 16-year-old Amy Yu in Playa del Carmen a week ago and flew them to Miami.

... the nation's first international air cargo hub to house both Mexican and US customs. The first-of-its-kind service, which will be operated out of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, will enable ecommerce companies, manufacturers, and other commercial interests conducting business in Mexico and throughout ...

metric tons of steel, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, are: Canada, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and China. In the following Q&A, Economist Walter Kemmsies, managing director and chief strategist of the U.S. ports, airports and global infrastructure ...

“Brooke's new role as MFA's first Chief Commercial Officer reflects her broad involvement in and impact on the strategy of the Association's many important ... Harlow graduated from Yale University with a BA in American Studies and was selected as a Rotary Scholar and studied at El Colegio de Mexico in ...

For example, a smaller share of Mexican firms (43%) expected a positive impact from the Pacific Alliance – a trade block comprising Mexico, Peru, Colombia ... “NAFTA has significantly benefitted Canada, Mexico and the U.S.,” added Linda Seymour, head of commercial banking for HSBC Bank Canada.

“What it came down to is that the taxpayer's money is taken care of,” said Filiberto Gonzales, Odessa City Councilman, District 5. Odessa City Council gave it to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, following their most recent finance meeting. Officials say recent personnel decisions have given them pause ...

"We're hoping to have a really good year," said McAllen Chamber of Commerce President Steve Ahlenius. Visitors coming in from Mexico for the Easter holiday are expected to boost the local economy. Ahlenius says he's optimistic about a higher number of visitors coming this year compared to last. On average, Mexican ...

Openpay's clients in Mexico include multi-national e-commerce merchants and well-known travel industry leaders such as airlines, ride-sharing companies, and ticketing platforms. Alipay's partnership with Openpay will help Mexican merchants meet the growing Chinese demand for Mexican products.

Mexico ranks 49 overall in the World Bank's Doing Business evaluation, and 90 for ease of starting a business. Still, there are several procedures which can be tricky to navigate for firms unfamiliar with the environment, particularly registration with the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS).

While citrus is a major Texas industry, and the climate is conducive to easily growing these fruits, commercial citrus growers are asking homeowners with these trees to help them in their decades-long war with the Mexican fruit fly. “This time of year, like every year, the Mexican fruit fly is an issue in the Rio ...

... of photos provided by the Allentown, Pa., Police Department shows Amy Yu and Kevin Esterly. On Saturday, March 17, 2018, authorities said the missing Pennsylvania teenager and the 45-year-old man who frequently signed her out of school without her parents' permission have been located in Mexico.

**UPDATE (2:15PM)** -- The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for a missing boater in the Gulf of Mexico. 63-year-old Dennis Grim was on a commercial fishing boat that sank early Thursday morning off Lee County. The Coast Guard and partner agencies conducted 19 searches covering ...

Commerce drives the United States' need for better infrastructure, and in turn improved infrastructure drives American commerce. This has never been more apparent than U.S. trade with Mexico and Canada. As a result of NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, Canada and Mexico are now the ...

Less than one-third of adults in Mexico have credit cards, and 80% of consumers consider cash to be their preferred purchasing method, as some are wary of online fraud. Those factors have made e-commerce largely inaccessible to many Mexican consumers, and have provided challenges to e-commerce businesses ...

The issue: a 72.4 percent tariff rate imposed on Mexican-made washers that it brought into the country between February 2016 and last November. Electrolux, based in Sweden, has been subject to Commerce Department tariffs since 2012, ostensibly to punish below-market pricing on foreign imports that ...

The survey found that Mexican online shoppers have who bought from international retailers did so because of lower prices, or because they wanted products that were not available from Mexican retailers. “E-commerce consumption in Mexico is continuing to boom with sales expected to reach US $17.6 ...

Amazon.com Inc launched its first-ever debit card on Tuesday in Mexico, part of a push to encourage shoppers without bank accounts to buy online. Internet retailers and brick-and-mortar chains in Mexico are investing heavily in e-commerce as the sector gains in popularity, although it is still a small fraction ...

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But as President Trump visits this border district today to inspect the prototypes of the wall he hopes to build, commerce is not likely to be high on his agenda. And that's OK with Jeff Schwilk, founder of San Diegans for Secure Borders. Schwilk said the existing fence, between 14 to 18 feet high is good, but a ...

The rest is sold to commercial used clothing dealers and textile recyclers at bulk prices, who in turn export it — 1.6 billion pounds annually with a value of ... Since the founding of border towns in the 1800s, both American and Mexican communities have benefited from visitors — and commerce — from the ...

But he exempted NAFTA partners Canada and Mexico, and the White House will let other nations justify their own case for exception from the tariffs. The only EU nation in the top 10 sources of U.S. steel imports is Germany, which ranks ninth, according to IHS Global Trade Atlas data for the first nine months ...

ACAPULCO (Reuters) - Mexico's attorney general should be given more autonomy to fight graft so that no one, not even the president, is above the law, ... lifestyles associated with some PRI politicians, his campaign has released photos of him in economy class on commercial flights and driving a modest ...

The Commerce report recommended two tariff options to boost U.S. capacity to 80 percent. The first instituted global tariffs of 24 percent on steel and 7.7 percent on aluminum—with no exemptions. The second option placed a 53 percent steel tariff on a select group of countries (Brazil, South Korea, Russia, ...

By exempting Mexico and Canada from new tariffs, President Donald Trump is hoping to incentivize those nations to strike a fair deal on the North American Free Trade Agreement, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC on Thursday. "There's no question that the action the president took today is a ...

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC on Wednesday that President Donald Trump has indicated a degree of flexibility on tariffs for Canada and Mexico. "We're not trying to blow up the world. There's no intention of that," Ross said in an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box." "The president indicated ...

The region is one of the most popular travel destinations in Mexico. "U.S. Government employees are prohibited from using all tourist ferries on this route until further notice. Mexican and U.S. law enforcement continue to investigate," the embassy wrote. Photos of the device published in local media showed ...

"The financial backing and global expertise of the Swiss Re Group allow us to protect Mexican entities from large risks," added Newton Queiroz, Swiss Re's head of sales in Latin America in a statement. "We look forward to working with clients and brokers throughout the country, which is a strategic market ...

With such epic expansion, the tasty green fruit has become emblematic of commerce between Mexico and the United States. And it has helped the overall trade across the Rio Grande continue to grow, despite President Donald J. Trump railing against too many Mexican imports. In 2017, there was a record ...

MEXICO CITY, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Mexican consumers are having more confidence in e-commerce and consider it being close to offering complete security. Communications expert Armando Tovar told Xinhua recently that the main challenge for e-commerce in Mexico is the complicated process to emit a ...

Trump readies tariff plan rollout, exempting Mexico, Canada .... “He's already indicated a degree of flexibility, I think a very sensible, very balanced degree of flexibility,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC. “We're not trying to blow up the world.” Trump signaled other trade actions could be in the ...