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Platinum Equity has acquired Livingston International, a Toronto-based firm that specializes in customs brokerage, freight forwarding and trade consulting, according to the Beverly Hills, Calif., investment firm.

Members of a coalition of truckers, chemical manufacturers, and other trade groups are in discussions with U.S. customs officials over a yet-to-be-enforced, controversial requirement that motor carriers and exporters stipulate on electronic manifests the amount of residual chemicals left inside cargo and portable tank containers when returning from deliveries in Canada and Mexico.