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E-commerce retailers and logistics providers are scrambling to comply with new European Union customs rules and fees, effective Wednesday, aimed at addressing concerns over tariff fairness, domestic manufacturing, and product safety associated with a wave of low-value imports entering the bloc through parcel channels. Each B2C parcel entering the EU will be subject to a flat 3 euro ($3.41) charge per product category (e.g. two T-shirts=one item; a T-shirt and a collared shirt= two items, or 6 euros) within a parcel. “If there’s 10 million parcels B2C parcels a day going into a country like the Netherlands and there’s two SKUs on average per package, that’s $60 million in revenue for the country in a single day.

The Trump administration has declined to renew the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) in its current form, launching a new phase of negotiations over North America’s signature trade pact while allowing the agreement to remain in force. “The United States will continue to engage with Mexico and Canada to address the Agreement’s shortcomings and our trade deficits with these countries,” Greer said. U.S.-Mexico two-way trade totaled a record $872.83 billion in 2025, reinforcing Mexico’s position as the United States’ largest trading partner.

Ruan announced Wednesday that it has expanded its international trade and logistics capabilities across the U.S. and Mexico by launching a new customs brokerage service. It now provides comprehensive door-to-door transportation solutions, including asset-based operations (3,000 tractors), cross-border drayage, intermodal services and third-party logistics services like brokerage and managed transportation. Ruan also said it is renaming its Brokerage Support Services unit to Freight Brokerage as part of the launch.

Ceva Logistics is an $18.3 billion company, with 110,000 employees and operations in 170 countries. Prior to that he was president of the Americas for France-based freight forwarder Geodis for nearly a dozen years. CMA CGM, headquartered in Marseilles, France, has been on a buying spree for the past decade as it transforms itself from a pure ocean carrier and port terminal operator into an end-to-end logistics provider.

A judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in September dismissed the case in which Pink Cheetah had requested certain documents involving loads it hauled for TQL and then sued over its claim that TQL, after first producing some of the information it asked for, rejected further entreaties. The fact that the case is going to oral arguments before the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia is a small victory for Pink Cheetah, as TQL argued in a brief submitted to the court that it did not believe those presentations were necessary. It also told TQL to remove the provision in its contract that required a carrier to waive its right to certain information on demand from the broker.

The United States of America’s 250th anniversary arrives close to one year after the same celebration of the Postal Service.This Independence Day — Saturday, July 4 — is the 250th anniversary of the nation’s birth. It will be observed as a federal holiday on Friday, July 3. He had served as joint postmaster general of British North America for decades but was dismissed by the Crown the previous year for being deemed too sympathetic to the Colonies.

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