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Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: More investment, manufacturing jobs for Mexico; new 3,000-acre logistics hub for Texas; TUM Logistics acquires 110 Kenworth tractors; and CBP seizes 6 kilos of DMT en...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans to spend $46 million to upgrade technology to improve rail cargo inspections at 12 points of entry by the Canadian and Mexican borders. CBP says it will replace aging rail scanner systems with new high-energy rail scanners that can generate high-...

Agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Saturday seized more than $16 million worth of methamphetamine hidden inside a shipment of fresh broccoli from Mexico. The incident occurred at the cargo facility of the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge in South Texas, according to a CBP release...

Times of crisis bring out the best and worst in people, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the nation's ports of entry are on the lookout for the latter in cargo during the coronavirus outbreak. On March 14, CBP announced that two days earlier it had seized a package at the...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Philadelphia airport recently intercepted and removed an express shipment of counterfeit electric toothbrush heads from Turkey before they could end up in the hands of unwitting American consumers. The 1,440 counterfeit Oral-B electric...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said it will reinitiate a test to receive electronic data submissions in its umbrella computer system from importers and customs brokers pertaining to shipments regulated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). FWS has begun accepting applications from...

On March 3 President Trump signed legislation that will help increase the ranks of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) agriculture specialists and technicians to step up protection for America's farming and forestry industries against the introduction of destructive pests and diseases. The...

The Trump administration's proposed fiscal year 2021 budget requires an additional $160 million to hire additional Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and other specialists to sufficiently staff the nation's 328 ports of entry, according to National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU). The...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said its officers at the northern border crossing of International Falls, Minnesota, stopped a shipment of 1,088 counterfeit LED screens from entering the consumer market. The screens, which the agency's officers discovered on Feb. 12 in two 40-foot...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents working at the Ysleta port of entry in El Paso, Texas, seized 1,543 pounds of liquid methamphetamine Wednesday.  CBP officials told FreightWaves the liquid methamphetamine "would have an estimated street value of $30 million."  The liquid...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced its schedule for 2020 to implement various new trade processing functions in the agency's umbrella computer system, the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). On Saturday, CBP deployed two sets of "mass processing" updates to ACE, including...

With Valentine's Day just days away, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents are working hard to make sure imported flowers are pest and disease free. "CBP agriculture specialists are working hard every day preventing potentially harmful plant pests and foreign animal diseases from...

The Trump administration has requested $18.2 billion for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in its proposed fiscal year 2021 budget request to Congress. The largest portions of the proposed funding for CBP will go toward strengthening and improving agency land-border infrastructure and adding...

Good day, Canada Post wants Canadian cannabis producers to stop sending shipments to a tiny island because U.S. border officers keep seizing them from its sealed trucks when they briefly enter Maine. Canada's federally owned postal carrier sent letters to the cannabis firms in late October in...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said it collected $71.9 billion in import duties during fiscal year 2019, a 73% increase over the previous fiscal year.  When additional fees and taxes were included, the agency took in a total $80.7 billion for the fiscal year.  CBP announced the record...