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Mexican lawmaker floats chewing gum tax proposal

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • Mexico
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  • December 7 2012

A Mexican lawmaker has proposed a 50-percent tax on chewing gum

U.S. and Mexico agree to address environmental issues along border

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • Mexico, USA
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  • August 17 2012

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson and Mexican Secretary for the Environment and Natural Resources Juan Elvira Quesada have signed an eight-year agreement to address environmental issues along their common border

EPA seeks comments on U.S.-Mexico environmental program

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Mexico, USA
  • -
  • September 30 2011

EPA is seeking comments from interested parties and stakeholders on the draft program titled “Border 2020: U.S.-Mexico Environmental Program,” which is the result of an eight-year (2013-2020) bi-national effort designed to protect the environment and public health in the U.S.-Mexico border region, consistent with the “principles of sustainable development,” according to the introduction

WTO nixes “dolphin-safe” labels on U.S. tuna

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Global, Mexico, USA
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  • September 16 2011

Concluding that “dolphin-safe” tuna product labels authorized by the U.S. Commerce Department “are more trade-restrictive than necessary to achieve a legitimate objective,” a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel has given a partial victory to Mexico, which filed a complaint in 2009 claiming that the labels were illegal because they excluded Mexican yellowfin tuna from the U.S. market and shut down one-third of its tuna fleet

Anti-nanotech group targets researchers

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • Global, Mexico
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  • August 26 2011

A group known as “Individualities Tending Toward Savagery” has reportedly claimed responsibility for injuring two Mexican nanotechnology researchers with a parcel bomb, putting scientists around the world on alert

U.S. and Mexico resolve cross-border trucking dispute under NAFTA

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Mexico, USA
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  • July 15 2011

The United States and Mexico have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that resolves a long-haul, cross-border trucking dispute involving “retaliatory tariffs” on more than $2 billion in U.S. exports, including food and agricultural products

Mexico adopts stringent school food rules to combat obesity

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • Mexico
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  • May 28 2010

Mexican health officials have reportedly unveiled stringent guidelines that would prohibit the sale of processed or fried foods on school grounds