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Cross-border - USA/Mexico - Roadblocks to trucking still a drag on U.S., Mexico
San Antonio,TX,USA -San Antonio Express-News -13 Apr 2006: -- One of Mexico's leading businessmen revived the old issue of cross-border trucking in a San Antonio speech Wednesday, signaling the start of a new effort to allow freight to cross the U.S.-Mexico border as easily as it does the Canadian border... Eugenio Clariond Reyes, chief executive of Monterrey-based Grupo Imsa, knows the exact amount... Whereas the cost of moving a truck container across the busy bridge between Windsor, Canada, and Detroit comes to $19, shippers must pay $300 to drayage carriers for a container to cross the bridge between Nuevo Laredo and Laredo, Clariond said... The unnecessary drayage costs are one reason North America is losing ground to Asia, Clariond said, citing the power the Mexican-owned drayage carriers have in Mexico's government to block the start of cross-border trucking... The U.S. Teamsters truck-driving union first stopped the planned freight opening on the border in 1995, wanting to avoid competition with lower-paid Mexican truck drivers. The U.S. barriers eventually fell in Congress and the courts, but now Mexico stalls the start of cross-border trucking... Cross-border trucking has been delayed so long that many people believe it will never happen. Until it starts, however, the issue will never go away...
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