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Arizona is the first state in the country to have inspectors travel across the border to train commercial truck drivers on how to cut crossing times at ports of entry while improving safety.

There was excitement in the air when Mexican negotiators sat down 25 years ago with their counterparts from Canada and the United States to hammer out what would become the North American Free Trade Agreement.

While a proposed border adjustment tax on goods including cars and trucks appears to have been pulled off the political stove by House Republicans, the North American Free Trade Agreement is still on a burner.

Donald Trump recently called the so-called border adjustment in the House Republican tax-reform plan “too complicated.” He’s got that right: The proposal to incorporate border-tax adjustments into business taxes has created infighting among some usually tight industry associations.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection is scheduled to announce a pilot program that would allow truckers to prepay for single-crossing access to ports of entry.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture last week issued a final rule designed to recoup costs associated with animal and plant inspections by raising fees for all truck-borne imports by 187%.

Transplace has upgraded its customs tool for shipments crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Top officials with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexico’s Tax Administration Service signed an  agreement Oct. 17 aimed at accelerating secure trade.