Border Trade Alliance statement on Texas border truck inspection enforcement action
While border states like Texas have an important to role to play in ensuring truck safety and code compliance, the state should be working in collaboration with CBP, not engaging in a new inspection scheme that will slow the movement of freight, which will only exacerbate the country’s supply chain crisis and put even more upward pressure on consumer prices.
Common Sense Border Management Solutions: A paper by IBC CEO Dennis E. Nixon
The latest edition of IBC CEO Dennis Nixon's Common Sense Border Solutions paper.
Border Trade Alliance statement on trucker protests, border disruptions
Border Trade Alliance President Ms. Britton Mullen released the following statement regarding protests in Canada that have disrupted cross-border trade between the United States and Canada
BTA Shares Updates Regarding CBP Vaccine Mandates – January 2022
January 20, 2022 Board Members, CBP tonight held a briefing for the cross-border trade community on this weekend’s (midnight Jan. 22) implementation of a vaccine requirement for non-U.S. persons crossing into the U.S. who were [...]
BTA seeks clarification of new procedures as border crossing restrictions ease
The Border Trade Alliance on October 18, 2021 sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security seeking information about the operational aspects of DHS' easing of travel restrictions for Canadian and Mexican nationals at the U.S. northern and southern land borders.
Border Trade Alliance testifies before Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Management, discusses challenges facing land border ports of entry
In his remarks, Vale discussed the economic calamity that has resulted from the 15-month pandemic-induced restriction on cross-border travel deemed “non-essential” by the United States, Mexico and Canada.