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Every day, about 10 Kansas City Southern trains hauling everything from cars to chemicals crisscross the border between Mexico and the United States at Laredo, Texas, up from about six three years ago.
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*Cargill, JBS, Maple Leaf Foods, Olymel biggest Canada packers. MOSCOW, April 5- Russia plans to ban meat imports from most Canadian and Mexican suppliers from April 8 over concerns about the use of the feed additive ractopamine, Russia's veterinary and phytosanitary service said on Friday.
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The Saudi's investment in a Texas refinery's expansion is meant to ensure that it will retain an important market for its crude in the United States at a time when American politicians intend to wean the country off imported oil, The New York Times reports.
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MEXICO CITY, April 4- Mexico's competition watchdog Cofeco said mobile phone company Telcel dominates the country's phone market, opening the door to tougher regulation of the company owned by Carlos Slim, the world's richest man.
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MEXICO CITY, April 4- Mexico's competition watchdog Cofeco said mobile phone company Telcel dominates the country's phone market, opening the door to tougher regulation of the company owned by Carlos Slim, the world's richest man.
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*Technical support seen near 85- to 86- cent range- broker. NEW YORK, April 4- ICE cotton fell on Thursday, as weekly U.S. government export data were not seen as strong enough to boost prices and losses across commodities markets weighed. The most-active May cotton contract on ICE Futures U.S. fell 0.89 cent, or 1 percent, to settle at 88.33 cents per pound.
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*Brazil, Thai mills operating at near production cost. *Brazil cane area up, Russian beet acreage seen down. LONDON, April 4- Top sugar exporters Brazil and Thailand are raising production to cut costs in an effective price war, aggravating an already heavily oversupplied global market as values slide to the lowest levels in over 2-1/ 2 years.
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MEXICO CITY-- Mexico's National Council to Prevent Discrimination says it will launch an investigation of an online magazine column accusing maids of being "ungrateful, whining, abusive thieves." Such discriminatory language is against the law in Mexico, but freedom of expression also enjoys broad protection.
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LONDON, April 4- Stronger manufacturing and services output in China helped lift emerging market business confidence in March, masking slower growth in Brazil, Russia and India, a monthly purchasing managers' survey showed.
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WASHINGTON, April 3- The United States would welcome South Korea joining negotiations on an Asia-Pacific free trade agreement, a senior U.S. trade official said on Wednesday, as Washington continues to weigh Japan's bid to enter the same set of talks.
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*Client coverage in Brazil seen up by 50 percent this year. *Lender plans to expand in Colombia, is "bullish" on Brazil.
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WASHINGTON, April 3- Free-trade talks between the United States and 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific region could stretch into late next year, especially if Japan joins the negotiations, former U.S. trade officials said on Wednesday. Even if Japan stays out of the talks, "I think it would be improbable to conclude negotiations this year.
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*Client coverage in Brazil seen up by 50 pct this year. *Plans to expand in Colombia, is "bullish" in Brazil.
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*Client coverage in Brazil seen up by 50 pct this year. *Plans to expand in Colombia, is "bullish" in Brazil.
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*Plentiful coffee from previous Brazil crop-Licht. May raw sugar futures edged down 0.02 cent or 0.1 percent to 17.57 cents a lb by 1119 GMT, just above Tuesday's 2-1/ 2 year low of 17.50 cents. "Big crops in Thailand, India and Mexico, and the favourable weather in Brazil suggesting a good crop there: all of these factors suggest general bearishness."
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CALGARY, Alberta, April 2- Two high-profile oil spills won't stem the now-record flow of Canadian oil into the United States, despite the frenzy that the spills triggered among friends and foes of the Keystone XL pipeline to the main U.S. refineries.
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CHICAGO-- Chicago and its suburbs are among the places Mexican cartels are dispatching trusted operatives. An Associated Press review of federal records suggests cartels in recent years have increasingly begun sending agents directly from Mexico deep into the American heartland.
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LONDON, April 2- Raw sugar futures on ICE eased to a 2-1/ 2 year low on Tuesday on expectations of a bumper crop from top producer Brazil as its harvest got under way. ICE arabica coffee was lower, also under pressure from ample Brazil supplies, while cocoa was steady.
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NEW YORK-- Property and casualty insurer ACE Ltd has completed its acquisition of Mexico's Fianzas Monterrey for about $293 million from New York Life Insurance Co..
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Can unlocking abundant supplies of domestic energy create millions of new manufacturing jobs? The truth may fall short of this promise, the New York Times reports.
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NEW YORK-- General Motors Co. said Tuesday that its financial arm completed the purchase of most of Ally Financial's operations in Europe and Latin America.