Transport, Trade and Regulation News

Manufacturing growth accelerated in October as new orders and production surged to push the PMI index up 2.5 points to 56.9 percent, according to the nation's supply executives in a report on business

Walter Arsenault doesn’t buy that organized crime has vanished from the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Retailers that survived the Great Recession through unprecedented, at times desperate, cost-cutting are transitioning from their slash-and-burn mentality to one of growth and prosperity next year and

SHENZHEN, China — China’s government is sending a strong message that it wants to redirect the country’s huge export economy inward, focusing on growth in domestic consumption and in

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Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin wants to enlist customs brokers as “trusted partners” in securing the nation’s borders against contraband and weapons of mass d

For an office at the heart of the federal government’s effort to harmonize international trade compliance and enforcement, Customs and Border Protection’s Commercial Targeting and Analysis

Trucking operators have long fought calls for new fuel efficiency and emissions standards.

Wanted: 28 candidates experienced in freight transportation, inland distribution and the marine highway system. Where: Washington, D.C. Contact: Maritime Administration.

Implementation of the employee-driver mandate in the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks plan may not begin at the end of 2011 as planned. That appears to be the outcome of a ruling by U.S.

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The U.S. Postal Service suspended service for mail coming out of Yemen this weekend as new details emerged about the movement of explosives in packages bound for the United States.

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The Food and Drug Administration needs to improve its ability to inspect foreign facilities that manufacture products subject to its regulations in the U.S., the Government Accountability Office said

Orders for durable manufactured goods rose 3.3 percent in September but fell 0.8 percent excluding the volatile category that includes aircraft.

U.S. steel imports posted a month-to-month decline of 3.2 percent last month but were up 73.9 percent from the depressed levels of September 2009.

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Economic growth in developing nations such as China, India and Brazil is proceeding at a much faster pace than in the developed countries, providing greater export opportunities for the U.S., accordin

Americans' confidence in the economy rose slightly in October but consumers remain uneasy about jobs as retailers head into the holiday shopping season, a monthly survey says.

Perceptions of corruption in the United States and other developed countries have worsened with the financial crisis, according to global rankings released by the watchdog group Transparency Internati

GENCO Supply Chain Solutions said Monday it completed its merger with ATC Technology Corp., forming a combined company that will be privately owned and rebranded under the name GENCO ATC.

Account management, a form of compliance oversight that has been a high-priority item for the trade, will get a trial run beginning Nov. 1.

The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation announced the first national standards to cut greenhouse gas emissions and improve fuel efficiency of heavy-duty commercial diesel

Stimulus spending by the Department of Transportation reached $21.2 billion as of Oct.

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin wants to rebuild the agency’s frayed relationship with the customs brokerage community.

Mexico is trying to make itself more business-friendly, and it’s embarked on a 12-step program to do it.

Leave it to China to create bipartisanship in the typically polarized U.S. Congress. With U.S.

A policy designed to restrict foreign companies from selling technology to Chinese government entities is by far the biggest China business issue facing many U.S. technology companies.

There’s one thing with which Richard DiNucci takes exception in a recent Government Accountability Office report: the compliance level achieved under the Importer Security Filing rule.

1. Facilitate Mexican exports to Europe and Latin America by reducing the time it takes to get a certificate of origin, and simplifying the Eligible Products Register.

When a senior Environmental Protection Agency official last week classified the agency’s new truck engine and fuel standards as “historic,” she was right on target.

The U.S. will impose dumping and anti-subsidy duties on glossy paper from Indonesia and China after the U.S.

Global industrial real estate developer AMB Property Corporation signed leases for 563,100 square feet in a recently begun project just outside Sao Paulo, Brazil.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection this week gave the International Trade Data System higher priority at the request of other federal agencies that will receive import data through the ITDS system.

Customs and Border Protection this week began testing digital imaging software in the International Trade Data System to deliver documents to agencies that participate in the ITDS program.

A gauge of future economic activity rose slightly in September, suggesting continued slow growth for the U.S. economy into next year.

Global crude steel production for the 66 countries reporting to the World Steel Association crept up slightly in September from the same month in 2009.

Business, agricultural, political and labor leaders will gather in Vancouver, Wash., Thursday to celebrate the completion of the Columbia River deepening project, which improves access to the ports of

The Port of Los Angeles has been awarded $16 million from the U.S.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is signing up volunteers to test ocean and rail manifest systems in the Automated Commercial Environment.