Transport, Trade and Regulation News

The National Watermelon Promotion Board has recommended the elimination of the Watermelon Research and Promotion Plan importer membership condition that requires importers to...

If the Feb. 13 House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing often seemed a pre-emptive strike against “devolutionists” seeking to shift control of the infrastructure purse strings to the states, that’s because it was just that.

U.S. poultry exporters face a litany of challenges this year: Record feed grain prices; import quotas and an ever-shifting regulatory regime in Russia; and tariffs and countervailing duties totaling 104 percent in China.

The private sector is willing to pay higher user fees to fund transportation infrastructure and is ready to unleash a quarter of a trillion dollars in capital for public-private partnerships, Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Donohue said on Wednesday

Thailand has amended its import conditions related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as “mad cow disease,” which will facilitate the exports of bovine products from the EU.

Bud Wright, executive director of American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, has applauded President Obama’s reference to infrastructure investment in his recent...

The retail and manufacturing industries have remarked on President Obama’s recent State of the Union address, commending his focus on job creation, while also offering a few suggestions.

Government officials, politicians and business and industry leaders have commended the decision of the U.S. and the European Union to initiate the necessary internal procedures for the launch of...

President Obama said the right things about investing in transportation infrastructure and removing trade barriers with Asia and Europe during his State of the Union address Tuesday.

The European Union will co-finance a project to raise bridges on the Albert Canal in the Flanders region in Belgium to allow taller ships and barges to access the waterway.

Joseph (Joe) M. Baker, Jr., of Annapolis, Md., former executive director of the National Cargo Security Council, died on Feb. 8. He was two days shy of his 86th birthday.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and Consumer Product Safety Commission investigators have seized multiple shipments of nearly 30,000 toys imported into the Port of San Juan...

State departments of transportation and local governments committed more than $117 billion in funding for highway, bridge, transit, port and other transportation-related...

The U.S. has requested World Trade Organization dispute settlement consultations with India’s government regarding domestic content requirements in India’s national solar...

The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, reported that for the full year of 2012...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the European Union recently implemented a mutual recognition decision between...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service is seeking comments on the Dairy Tariff-Rate Import Quota Licensing Program.

Global Port Tracker projects an 8.5 percent surge in containerized imports this month over February 2012 despite uncertainties surrounding labor negotiations on both the East and West coasts and a decline in fourth quarter 2012 gross domestic product.

The American Trucking Associations has repeated its call for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to establish a process to remove crashes from motor carriers’ records when...

Fred P. Hochberg, chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, recently signed a $500 million memorandum of understanding with India's ICICI Bank.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has authorized imports of fresh litchi, longan and rambutan fruit, as well as bananas, from the Philippines into the U.S.

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board, part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, has recommended changes to its Uniform Railroad Costing System.

Giving ports more flexibility in how they can use HMT dollars could be one way to drum up the political support needed to reach the tipping point on HMT reform, a federal policy and legislative consultant says.

U.S. Reps. Cedric Richmond, D-La., and co-chair Michael G. Grimm, R-N.Y., have established the Congressional Maritime Caucus, which will work to raise awareness among members of Congress on maritime-related topics.

The Ohio Department of Transportation today announced the final three teams that will compete for an estimated $330 million contract to design, construct and finance the second eastbound I-90 Innerbelt Bridge in Cleveland...

Pennsylvania’s Gov. Tom Corbett recently announced his plan to inject $1.8 billion of additional funding into the state’s transportation system, as part of his statewide budget address.

During a recent European Union General Affairs Council meeting in Brussels, Vytautas Leskevicius, Lithuania’s vice minister of foreign affairs, advocated for the implementation of the EU-Ukraine free trade agreement prior to its ratification.

The European Union’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health today endorsed two new measures authorizing the imports of beef from Japan.

South Korea saw exports surge by 11.8 percent year-on-year in January following a 5.7 contraction in December, but seasonal factors distorted what was really a disappointing month, according to one analyst.

The U.S. Department of Commerce and the Mexican tomato industry have initialed a proposed agreement suspending the anti-dumping duty investigation of fresh tomatoes from Mexico, which is now open for comment.

Carload shippers who have access to only one rail line are waging a multiprong campaign this year to increase railroad competition, as one of their fiercest champions, Sen. John Rockefeller, winds up his last term.

Mexico City-based mining corporation Grupo Mexico reported net income in the fourth quarter of 2012 was $724.8 million, jumping 22.6 percent from $591.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2011.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection processed nearly 25 million cargo containers through the nation’s ports of entry in fiscal year 2012, up about 4 percent year-over-year.

International trade and cooperation has become a key driver of small business success, according to a macro-economic study by IHS and DHL Express.