Though the latest numbers from the U.S. Department of Transportation indicate a significant increase in surface transportation trade between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico from 2009 to 2010, the value of North American surface trade remains below 2007 and 2008 levels. From 2009 to 2010, trade among North American Free Trade Agreement partners rose 24.3 percent, the largest year-to-year increase since the agreement took effect in 1994. U.S.-Canada surface transportation trade totaled $471 billion in 2010, an increase of 22.1 percent compared to 2009, while U.S.-Mexico surface Continue Reading

Month-to-month trade among North American Free Trade Agreement partners fell 3.7 percent from April to May, but the year-over-year monthly decline was the fifth consecutive plunge of at least 27 percent. From May 2008 to May 2009, surface transportation among the United States Canada and Mexico dropped 35.4 percent, making it the Continue Reading

Struggling economic times tend to heighten protectionist urges, but the former U.S. Ambassador to Canada is espousing the need for free-trade initiatives. Speaking recently in Quebec City, Gordon Griffin cited the growth that both Canada and the United States have experienced as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). From Continue Reading

The latest move in a decades-long battle to open the U.S.-Mexican borders to Mexican trucks is a $6 billion lawsuit filed by Mexico’s trucking lobby for financial losses the industry has experienced in the last three years. Under the Bush administration in 2007, registered Mexican truckers were allowed to operate inside the Continue Reading

Though the Obama administration will soon consider re-opening the U.S.-Mexican border to trucking, thousands of Mexican truckers have filed suit against the U.S. government citing its violation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. NAFTA would have given Mexican truckers limited Continue Reading