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The price of goods imported to the United States fell for a seventh straight month in February on lower commodity costs, declining 1.1%, the Labor Department said Friday.

U.S. consumer confidence rose slightly this month, but still remains near a 28-year low, according to the Reuters/University of Michigan’s preliminary monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

Canada-based transportation firm Trimac Income Fund said its fourth-quarter profit rose to C$3 million, or 11 cents per unit, from C$2.2 million, or 9 cents, a year ago.

In a scenario eerily reminiscent of the Bill Murray movie “Groundhog Day,” a coalition of interest groups has again launched a formal legal challenge to the government’s hours-of-service rules for commercial drivers.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week took the first step toward creating a national cap-and-trade system, proposing a new rule that would establish a federal system for reporting carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases produced by large stationary and mobile sources.

Navistar International Corp. made money during the three months ended Jan. 31, but Volvo AB reported a loss for the fourth quarter last year, the two original equipment manufacturers said last week.

President Obama signed legislation last week that killed the Transportation Department’s controversial test of longhaul cross-border trucking with Mexico, but the administration signaled it was open to resurrecting a program in the future.

Job losses in the trucking sector continued to mount in February as trucking firms had the most layoffs in history for a month without strikes.

The U.S. retail diesel fuel average dropped 4.2 cents last week to $2.045 a gallon, as the price in the Midwest fell below $2, the first time that has occurred anywhere in more than four years, the Department of Energy reported.