Pictured Above: The late CBP DFO William Brooks along with members of the Greater Nogales Santa Cruz County Port Authority and the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas met several years ago with Senator McCain to talk about trade and the new Mariposa Port. The Port Authority presented Senator McCain with an award recognizing his hard [...]
Nogales, AZ — Members of the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas (FPAA) held their annual meeting on May 15, 2018 in Nogales, Arizona. The annual meeting is an opportunity for members to discuss key actions from the previous year with detailed updates from the FPAA’s president, chairman, and staff. In addition, the annual meeting is [...]
Join us tomorrow, May 17, at the Santa Cruz Center from 10:00am-3:00pm for the second Sustainability Expo! Companies today are faced with the financial pressure to lower operating costs and the social pressure to be more environmentally friendly. The Nogales Sustainability Expo will connect businesses and property managers with the products and services for implementing sustainability [...]
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The world, as we know it, has ended. Society is not what it once was. Instead of fruitful international investment opportunities, we see a desolate economic landscape plagued with danger and uncertainty. Hordes of angry consumers are cursed to pay higher prices for products they once took for granted. An apocalyptic disaster of biblical proportion. [...]
Speaker Bryan Riley at the 2018 FPAA Spring Policy Summit “Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies. They are our allies. We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade ware against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world, all while cynically waving [...]
“We will build gleaming new roads, bridges, highways, railways, and waterways all across our land. And we will do it with American heart, and American hands, and American grit.” - President Trump From the above quote, you can see that infrastructure is an important item on the current administration’s “to-do list”. The President even worked his [...]
FPAA continues to push forward in areas of policy, and this year’s Spring Policy Summit is no exception. If food safety is of interest to you or your company, plan to take advantage of this opportunity. We have a strong slate of food safety speakers and topics, starting on Wednesday, March 21, when we will lay [...]
FPAA Spring Policy Summit March 20-21, 2018 Tubac, Arizona Agenda Items Tuesday, March 20, 2018 11:00 am – 7:00 pm: Spring Policy Registration Desk Open 11:00 am – 2:30 pm: North American Produce Food Safety Working Group (Invitation only. Inquire with Gfelix@freshfrommexico.com for more details) 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm: Tour of Divine Flavor Warehouse 5:00 pm [...]