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Cross-Border Trucking Program * USA - No Anniversary Party for Controversial
Tempe,AZ,USA -The Supply Chain Management, by W. P. Carey -August 27, 2008: -- Congress and President Bush appear to be on a collision course over U.S.-Mexico trucking, but most likely trucks will continue to traverse the border, fostering the flow of international commerce, according to an expert at the W. P. Carey School of Business... Arnold Maltz, professor of supply chain management, says Mexican truckers should be permitted to drive in the United States. To that end, Maltz is beginning a Border Enforcement Grant program to get Mexican drivers better-trained to drive on American roads... At issue in Washington, D.C. is a small but controversial one-year pilot project that has allowed Mexican trucks to travel throughout the United States, although most of such travel has been in the border states... The Bush administration wants to extend the program two years despite bipartisan criticism. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a bipartisan bill in July to bar the program's continuation. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a similar amendment, aimed at the U.S. Department of Transportation's fiscal 2009 budget, intending to stop the pilot program. Floor votes cannot occur until legislators' summer recess ends in September... But less than a week after the House and Senate panels' votes, the USDOT said it plans to continue the program -- for two more years -- to allow Mexican truckers into the United States... The year-old pilot program for Mexican trucking in the United States is off to a small and controversial start. Bipartisan criticism in Congress may put legislation ending the program on President Bush's desk, and he may veto it. Researchers, international trade advocates and Mexican carriers say the program needs more time to be evaluated. Washington politicians have a tough call to make as they balance free trade, protection of American jobs, traffic safety and border security. Meanwhile the CANAMEX (Canada-American-Mexico Corridor) project, launched a decade ago to increase North American access to Pacific Ocean steamship lines through western Mexico ports, has continued apace and would be aided by liberalized cross-border trucking...Labels: mexicans' trucks debate
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