Transport, Trade and Regulation News

India’s trade deficit from April 2012 to January 2013 was $167.2 billion, expanding from last year’s deficit of $154.9 billion during the same period in the previous year.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Arkansas Oklahoma Port Operators Association to ensure the continued viability of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River...

The Florida Department of Transportation has implemented administrative rule changes to reduce the regulatory burdens on trucks, according to the state’s Gov. Richard Lynn Scott.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has established a National Freight Advisory Committee to provide recommendations aimed at improving the national freight transportation system.

U.S. federal, state and local transportation departments of transportation have so far allocated $7 billion in federal funds during fiscal year 2013, which began Oct. 1, 2012.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has proposed to update and streamline its regulations involving the importation of plants for planting.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations agricultural specialists at the Port of Baltimore discovered on Feb. 7 that a shipment of celery seed from India was infested with...

During 2012, the 17-member eurozone trade in goods recorded a surplus of 81.8 billion euros (about US$109.3 billion), compared with a $21.0 billion deficit in 2011, according to Eurostat...

The European Commission has proposed new regulations to improve the safety of consumer products in the single market and increase market surveillance on all non-food products.

The Japanese economy shrank 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 from the preceding quarter, or at an annualized pace of 0.4 percent, in real terms, the Cabinet Office said in a preliminary report on Thursday.

The National Watermelon Promotion Board has recommended the elimination of the Watermelon Research and Promotion Plan importer membership condition that requires importers to...

If the Feb. 13 House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing often seemed a pre-emptive strike against “devolutionists” seeking to shift control of the infrastructure purse strings to the states, that’s because it was just that.

U.S. poultry exporters face a litany of challenges this year: Record feed grain prices; import quotas and an ever-shifting regulatory regime in Russia; and tariffs and countervailing duties totaling 104 percent in China.

The private sector is willing to pay higher user fees to fund transportation infrastructure and is ready to unleash a quarter of a trillion dollars in capital for public-private partnerships, Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Donohue said on Wednesday

Thailand has amended its import conditions related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as “mad cow disease,” which will facilitate the exports of bovine products from the EU.

Bud Wright, executive director of American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, has applauded President Obama’s reference to infrastructure investment in his recent...

The retail and manufacturing industries have remarked on President Obama’s recent State of the Union address, commending his focus on job creation, while also offering a few suggestions.

Government officials, politicians and business and industry leaders have commended the decision of the U.S. and the European Union to initiate the necessary internal procedures for the launch of...

President Obama said the right things about investing in transportation infrastructure and removing trade barriers with Asia and Europe during his State of the Union address Tuesday.

The European Union will co-finance a project to raise bridges on the Albert Canal in the Flanders region in Belgium to allow taller ships and barges to access the waterway.

Joseph (Joe) M. Baker, Jr., of Annapolis, Md., former executive director of the National Cargo Security Council, died on Feb. 8. He was two days shy of his 86th birthday.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and Consumer Product Safety Commission investigators have seized multiple shipments of nearly 30,000 toys imported into the Port of San Juan...

State departments of transportation and local governments committed more than $117 billion in funding for highway, bridge, transit, port and other transportation-related...

The U.S. has requested World Trade Organization dispute settlement consultations with India’s government regarding domestic content requirements in India’s national solar...

The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, reported that for the full year of 2012...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the European Union recently implemented a mutual recognition decision between...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service is seeking comments on the Dairy Tariff-Rate Import Quota Licensing Program.

Global Port Tracker projects an 8.5 percent surge in containerized imports this month over February 2012 despite uncertainties surrounding labor negotiations on both the East and West coasts and a decline in fourth quarter 2012 gross domestic product.

The American Trucking Associations has repeated its call for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to establish a process to remove crashes from motor carriers’ records when...

Fred P. Hochberg, chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, recently signed a $500 million memorandum of understanding with India's ICICI Bank.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has authorized imports of fresh litchi, longan and rambutan fruit, as well as bananas, from the Philippines into the U.S.

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board, part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, has recommended changes to its Uniform Railroad Costing System.

Giving ports more flexibility in how they can use HMT dollars could be one way to drum up the political support needed to reach the tipping point on HMT reform, a federal policy and legislative consultant says.

U.S. Reps. Cedric Richmond, D-La., and co-chair Michael G. Grimm, R-N.Y., have established the Congressional Maritime Caucus, which will work to raise awareness among members of Congress on maritime-related topics.