J.O. Alvarez, Inc. BLOG

The decline in surface transportation trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico slowed in November from a year ago compared with comparable figures for October, the Department of Transportation said Thursday. Trade among the North American Free Trade Agreement partners fell 2.9% year-to-year, to $58.9 billion. That compared with October’s 15.5% year-to-year decline, DOT… Continue reading »

This week some 38 or so countries are holding a secret negotiation in Guadalajara, Mexico, on something called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The title is a bit of a fraud, as it highlights the emotive and prejudicial word counterfeiting, while the agreement is about a wide range of intellectual property enforcement issues, of which counterfeits… Continue reading »

Incoterms 2010 Likely to Take Effect in January 2011 [Editor’s Note: The following article originally appeared in a Jan. 20 post in International Trade Law News, a blog by ST&R member Doug Jacobson, and is reprinted here with permission.] Frank Reynolds, the U.S. Delegate to the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) Incoterms committee, has provided… Continue reading »

In Laredo, Texas, the local economy’s connection to the vagaries of trade around the world could hardly be more obvious. It is a border town where the Mexican flag is rarely far from sight, and the border checkpoints connecting Laredo to its Mexican neighbor, Nueva Laredo, are the foundation of the town’s prosperity. Laredo is… Continue reading »

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