Moving the products that make up billions of dollars in NAFTA trade poses new transportation challenges for shippers and carriers alike. Security enforcement and delays in this time of uncertainty are raising the bar on many compliance issues. How best to deal with it? Here's some advice.
Thirty seconds into Donald Scherer's explanation of his business plan for a financial-services software company, Manhattan-based Crossborder Solutions, a voice over the loudspeaker intones, ``Start pitching!'' Too late. Baruch College's conference Thirty seconds into Donald Scherer's explanation of his business plan for...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-9 January 2003-FTC launches website to help tackle cross-border fraudC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com The US Federal Trade Commission FTC has announced the launch of its new website which will help consumers spot and avoid across-border fraud. The website is available at http://www.ftc.gov/crossborder and offers visitors information on...
INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-C1995-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The US Federal Trade Commission FTC has announced the launch of its new website which will help consumers spot and avoid across-border fraud. The website is available at http://www.ftc.gov/crossborder and offers visitors information on how to spot things like phony prize promotions,...
LONDON AFP — India's trade and industry minister has warned European governments against racist reactions to Mittal Steel's takeover bid for rival Arcelor. "This is an era of globalisation, crossborder investment and liberalisation, not one in which investors are judged by the colour of their skin in breach of...
Jones Lang LaSalle has completed an expansion and relocation with CrossBorder Solutions for Wachovia Securities at One New York Plaza. The international tax software company subleased 43,353 square feet at the Class A, 2.5 million-square-foot building for 9 1/2 years.
The world is full of diversity. There are numerous countries, all having different culture, different standards of living, and different trade policies. However, it has been observed that the differences in trade policies have resulted in huge economic imbalances in the economy. Hence, it is important for all the nations...
The stability of the financial system and the potential for systemic events to alter its functioning have long been critical issues for central bankers and researchers. Developments such as securitization and greater tradability of financial instruments, the rise in industry consolidation, growing crossborder financial activity, terrorist threats, and a higher...
International trade involves voluntary exchange of goods, services, assets, or money between residents of two different countries. International trade can also occur between two different countries. The advantages of trade include consumption, production, and export-led growth. The paper examines the economic basis for trade. The trade theory of comparative advantage...
Mention "free trade" in any public discourse today, and one is likely to come up with such topics as NAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement CAFTA, the Free Trade Area of the Americas FTAA, the World Trade Organization WTO, and Fast Track Trade authority for the president. "Free...
Auto insuranceLong before Canada signed the 1965 pact that eased the crossborder shipment of cars, our auto industry was defined by General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. Many Canadians believed what was good for the Big Three was good for the country. In 2004, Honda replaced Ford as our thirdlargest automaker....
ALLIANCE & LEICESTER, the building society turned bank, yesterday abruptly called off merger talks with the Bank of Ireland amid a welter of recriminations over who was to blame for the collapse of their planned pounds 12bn crossborder banking deal. Senior Alliance & Leicester executives last night rounded...
WHILE governments fight shy of crossborder airline get-togethers, carriers are finding another way to become transnational companies: they are investing in one another's computer reservation systems CRS, the airlines' electronic booking forms. In the first big deal, four European airlines and an American one have paid...
World Trade Centers are unique organizations in the promotion of international trade. The World Trade Centers concept started with the Pot Authority of New York and New Jersey in 1959. They were begun with the idea that trade bridges cultural and political boundaries, and that if nations traded with one...
The successful completion of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT that created of the World Trade Organization WTO in January 1995 has generated much optimism about the future of world trade, and with good reason. The trade accord not only eliminated tariffs on many...
Don't Fear Trade Deficits, Says Cato "No aspect of international trade is talked about more and understood less than America's perennial trade deficit," says a recent study, "America's Maligned and Misunderstood Trade Deficit," issued by the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies. Author Daniel T. Griswold says that "throughout...
Updating Trade Policy. We are entering an era when trade policy will need to reflect significant changes in the world economy. The philosophy of Adam Smith, and many of the rules now inherent in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, do not provide adequate guides for the future. The...
WASHINGTON - Calvin Scovel, the Department of Transportations inspector general, told TRANSPORT TOPICS his agency's audit of the proposed U.S.-Mexico crossborder trucking program was under way, and he planned to travel to Mexico to review the industry there."There's no timeline" to completing the audit, Scovel said July 11. "I know...
