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BORDER TROUBLES * Mexico/USA
* Mexican truckers await opening
Los Indios,Mex -Truth about Trade & Technology (Des Moine,IA,USA), by Lynn Brezosky -3 Jan 2006: -- Mexican trucker Brigido Moctezuma lives in a city on Mexico's northern border, far from talks on whether he'll be able to drive his loads of vehicle air bags all the way to assembly lines in Detroit... All he knows is that he and his boss's fleet of trucks are ready, and have been for years... "The line is ready. We've bought many new trucks; everything is in good order," he said. "But it seems like every time it almost happens that we can go, it doesn't."... Access to all U.S. highways was promised by 2000 under the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement, as was access through Mexico for U.S. carriers. A similar exchange with Canada has been carried out without a hitch... But U.S. trucking companies, unions and environmental groups blame Mexico's loosely regulated trucking industry. They contend that trucks used by Mexican carriers are older and poorly maintained, the result of that country's less stringent environmental and safety standards. The provision will cost Americans thousands of jobs, pollute the air, damage highways and threaten national security, they say...
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