Border Center Selected News

exico border trucking dispute stalled
Wednesday, September 01, 2010-- Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee panel with jurisdiction over transportation, has inserted language into the must-pass fiscal 2011 transportation appropriations bill requiring the administration to generate a plan by Oct. 1. -- (full text)
[Akron Beacon Journal]

UN-backed pact launches new tool to monitor trade in endangered species
Monday, August 30, 2010-- The Trade Data Dashboards of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which is administered by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), is designed to monitor the worldwide trade in wild fauna and flora as more terrestrial and aquatic species are used, and sometimes over-used, as part of human activities. -- (full text)
[UN News Centre]

Mexico pushes U.S. on trucking with new tariffs
Tuesday, August 17, 2010-- Mexico has turned up the heat on the U.S. to resolve the longstanding cross-border trucking dispute raising the number of U.S. exports subject to Mexican tariffs. -- (full text)
[Houston Chronicle]

Senate seeks solution to dispute
Sunday, August 15, 2010-- A Senate appropriations bill would require the Obama administration to come up with a plan by Oct. 1 to resolve a trucking dispute with Mexico. -- (full text)
[Capital Press]