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August 4, 2022
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5 Ways LTL Shipping Has Impacted E-Commerce
August 30, 2022
Shipping containers at the Port of Baltimore, Aug. 12, 2022.
Six Months into War, Russian Goods Still Flowing to U.S.
August 26, 2022
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Walmart Reports Strong Earnings as Americans Continue Spending
August 16, 2022
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Today in Manufacturing has a new podcast brought to you by the editors of Industrial Media. In each episode, we discuss the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward.
August 4, 2022
This photo shows one of many blue agave fields that line the roadsides in El Arenal, Jalisco state, Mexico. The Tequila Regulating Council said the U.S. imported $1.4 billion of tequila last year.
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Tequila Exporters Eye Deadline
Industry leaders say tariffs on tequila from Mexico could produce a loss of up to $859 million in sales and as many as 9,000 U.S. jobs.
June 7, 2019
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Truck drivers worked with thieves who foiled security measures while the material was being transported from the company's mine.
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Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, from left, Mexico's Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal, and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, pose for a group photo at a press conference regarding the second round of NAFTA renegotiations in Mexico City. Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017.
Supply Chain
Round of NAFTA Talks Ends in Wage Spat
U.S. trade rep Robert Lighthizer says "it's our objective to have provisions that raise wage rates in Mexico."
September 6, 2017
This April 28, 2017 photo shows a sign that says 'We're hiring' outside a Panasonic 'maquiladora' in an industrial park in Reynosa, Mexico, across the border from McAllen, Texas. A long-time factory worker said he worried that if maquila jobs decrease, the unemployed would fill the ranks of a drug cartels that control Mexican border towns.
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Border Towns Fear NAFTA Changes
The reality of NAFTA is complicated, especially at the border where communities are enmeshed in a shared economy that can be affected by actions or words in either country.
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