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MEXICANS' TRUCKS * USA: Eyes new truck plan before Obama trip
Washington,DC,USA -Reuters, by Doug Palmer -Mar 24, 2008: -- U.S. President Barack Obama's administration hopes to assemble a proposal to resolve a trucking dispute with Mexico before he visits the country in mid-April, an official said on Tuesday... The United States committed in the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico to open its roads to Mexican trucks, but the U.S. Teamsters union has continued to fight that... U.S. Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, has been working with other Obama administration officials and members of Congress to design a program that would allow Mexican trucks into the United States, the administration official said... Mexico wants to work with the United States to resolve the dispute but rejects the explanation that Congress shut down the program for safety concerns, Mexico's Ambassador to the United States Arturo Sarukhan said... (Photo by Mexican Trucker Online: On a mexican road)
* Obama's 'Trade War': No Truck with Mexico - Clinton may be able to come home from her Mexico trip with some good news...
Mexico City,DF,MEX -The Time, by Ioan Grillo -Mar. 25, 2009: -- ... This month's ban on Mexican truckers operating in U.S. territory quickly led to Mexico imposing retaliatory tariffs on a wide range of American products... Down in Mexico, the administration of President Felipe Calderon accused the U.S. of being hypocritical and protectionist. They have a strong case. Under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexican trucks were meant to be roaming some U.S. roads in 1995 and the width and breadth of the whole union by 2000. However, successive U.S. administrations could not say no to Teamster complaints that Mexican trucks were not fit for the interstates. Finally, both sides agreed on the pilot program to break the deadlock... "We consider that the United States is mistaken, protectionist and clearly violating the treaty," Mexico's Economy Secretary, Gerardo Ruiz Mateos,told a news conference on Mar. 16. "To decide to protect their own transport sector they have decided to affect the competitiveness of our countries and of the region, impacting many other productive sectors."... However, an end to the dispute may be in sight. Obama's Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, met with U.S. lawmakers Tuesday, saying he planned to restart the pilot program with sufficient safety requirements imposed on Mexican truckers. Though key American congressmen have yet to sign on to LaHood's initiative, Ruiz said the same day that Mexico would remove the tariffs to reciprocate if the program was reinstituted. "For us, the solution is to go on with the program that we had," he said. "In the moment the United States returns to its commitments, we will eliminate all the tariffs we imposed." (Photo by Lenny Ignelzi / AP - Trucks crossing into the United States from Mexico pour through a US Custom's inspection station at the Otay Mesa Border Crossing in San Diego) Labels: mexicans' trucks debate
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