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Did he or didn’t he? * Mexico - Unclear as to whether Mexico truck resolution
Sources have told that the principles were touched on during meetings between the two presidents, but no one is saying anything beyond that
Mexico City,DF,MEX —The Trucker, by Lyndon Finney -17 April 2009: -- One of President Barack Obama’s principal objectives during his visit with Mexican President Felipe Calderón here Thursday and today reportedly was to offer a set of principles for a new U.S.-Mexico trucking program to replace the recently ended Cross Border Demonstration Project... Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, when questioned directly by reporters during the flight here Thursday about whether he expected the Mexico trucks issue to be moved on during the meetings, said: “No, I think we're continuing to work on that issue and get an agreement that upholds our commitment in NAFTA. And that's something that we're working on with members of Congress to ensure that we can get a continuation of a demonstration program that meets their needs as well as our international obligations.”...
* USA - Texas group eyes trucking trade with Mexico
San Antonio,TX,USA -eTrucker -20 April 2009: -- A San Antonio, Texas, business organization is launching a group called the Cross Border Trucking Coalition to support cross-border trucking, trade with Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement... Free Trade Alliance said the coalition will be comprised of companies, industry organizations, trade associations and business chambers. The group is soliciting members in the United States and Mexico... FTA said it is to deal with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s recent cancellation of its two-year Cross Border Trucking Demonstration Project. Mexican officials said closing the trucking project violated NAFTA and responded by slapping a $2.4 billion tariff on U.S. industrial and agriculture goods...
* USA - Court Dismisses Teamsters’ Suit Over Mexican Trucks
USA -Transport Topics -20 April 2009: -- A federal appeals court Monday dismissed a lawsuit by the Teamsters union and other groups who had challenged a cross-border trucking program with Mexico, saying the suit was moot because the Obama administration and Congress ended the program... The San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit made the ruling, in which it said the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration terminated the program that had allowed some Mexican carriers access to U.S. roads beyond a designated border zone... The court wrote that while the case was pending, Congress and the Obama administration passed a law that ended the program, and that “any new pilot program . . . would likely present different questions” related to the groups’ concerns over safety and other issues...
OPINION * USA - NAFTA: What's a few trucks
USA -Fleet Owner, by JIM MELE -Apr 1, 2009: -- ... In 2007, a pilot program was launched allowing a small number of Mexican and U.S. carriers to freely operate within their neighboring countries. Long overdue, it came 12 years after NAFTA ratified the concept of full access to Mexican and U.S. highways to all trucks, and was limited to 100 carriers from each country. Only 27 Mexican fleets with 107 trucks and 10 from the U.S. with 55 trucks chose to participate, but even that limited interest fanned hysteria about the safety threat of Mexican trucks on our roads and wages lost to lower cost drivers from south of the border... If the program involves so few trucks, what's the big deal? In one word — retaliation... While it may not have been the intention, this symbolic stand against NAFTA could well impact far more than 163 trucks...
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