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MEXICANS' TRUCKS * Mexico - Talks End without Truck Deal
Calderon urges Obama to press Congress to allow access
Mexico City,DF,MEX -The Journal of Commerce, by R.G. Edmonson -Apr 17, 2009: -- President Obama ended talks Thursday with Mexican President Felipe Calderon with a pledge to step up U.S. efforts against drug cartels, but no progress on the cross-border trucking issue... Obama said he was “hopeful that we can resolve it in an effective way,” and that representatives of both countries are working together on the issue... Calderon urged Obama to press Congress to allow U.S. access to Mexican trucks...
* Mexico - Trucking discussed on Obama trip
Mexico City,DF,MEX -eTrucker -17 April 2009: -- During a trip to Mexico City yesterday, April 16, President Obama said he wants to repair a trade dispute with Mexico that has escalated since the U.S. ended a cross-border trucking program... Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, sent recommendations on resolving the dispute to the White House ahead of Obama’s visit to Mexico... “My team is working with President Calderon’s team to resolve this issue and I’m hopeful that we can resolve it in an effective way,” Obama said after talks with Mexican President Felipe Calderon... It will be “premature” to expect a detailed announcement on the trucking issue this week, said Denis McDonough, one of Obama’s senior foreign policy advisers... Under NAFTA, the United States agreed to open its highways to Mexican truckers but the Teamsters union has fought that move, contending Mexican trucks are unsafe... Mexico’s government asked Obama to permit all of the country’s tractor-trailers to operate across the border, a Mexican Transportation Department official said... Recently, a consortium of 140 U.S. business, food and agricultural groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce urged Obama to settle the dispute...
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