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Trade war over Mexican trucks ? * USA - Honor-bound on NAFTA trucks
The treaty in hand is the one America is legally bound to honor
Dallas,TX,USA -The Dallas Morning News (Editorial) -19 March 2009: -- ... Mexico has justifiably lost patience after dawdling and delays by successive U.S. administrations on implementing NAFTA requirements granting Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways. The tipping point occurred last week when Congress canceled a pilot program allowing some Mexican trucks in... For the long term, Mexico's retaliatory action signals the unraveling of a longstanding trade partnership. For 15 years, the North American Free Trade Agreement has dismantled restrictions and tariffs that impeded the flow of goods and commerce between the United States, Canada and Mexico... President Barack Obama, clearly no fan of NAFTA, should intervene immediately on the principle that America honors its treaty obligations. He should not only seek reinstatement of the pilot trucking program but enactment of rules that will allow qualified Mexican truckers to gain the full access that America was obligated under NAFTA to grant them after 1999... U.S. truckers will trot out their tired old arguments that Mexican trucks are unsafe, pollution-belching death machines whose drivers are unqualified to sit behind the wheel. But federal statistics indicate that these arguments are hogwash. The real reason American truckers want to block this NAFTA provision is because they fear the competition... (Photo by Mexico Trucker On Line: On border roads) 
* USA - NAFTA Trucking Should be About Economic Efficiency
Des Moines,Iowa,USA -Truth About Trade & Technology, by Ross Korves -20 March 2009: -- Allowing Mexican trucks to operate in the U.S. border states in 1995 and throughout the country by 2000 was part of the original plan under NAFTA, but has been repeated stalled. U.S. trucks were to have reciprocal rights in Mexico. While the issues are supposedly about truck and driver safety on the road and environmental compliance, the real issue is the loss of economic efficiencies that increase costs and reduce choices for consumers and producers in both countries... If President Obama does not take a clear stand in support of our trade commitments, U.S. producers and consumers who benefit from trade will continue to be losers. The President’s position at the G-20 meeting in early April will also be further weakened as leaders of other countries become increasingly convinced that the U.S. will slide further toward protectionism. President Obama needs to make a principled stand on this issue or he risks continued challenges on trade protectionism at home and abroad...
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