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MEXICANS TRUCKS DEBATE * USA - Governors make appeal to U.S. government to honor NAFTA
More than 150 U.S. manufacturers, companies and agricultural interests have voiced their support of a declaration by the governors of Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas calling on the U.S. government to honor its commitment to implement a cross-border trucking program with Mexico
Omaha,Neb,USA -Farm Futures -Sep 15, 2009: ... The governors urge the U.S. government to honor the North American Free Trade Agreement's long haul commercial vehicles regulations to allow U.S. and Mexican trucks to safely operate across the international border between the countries... Claims of safety concerns prompted Congress in March of this year to effectively eliminate a cross-border trucking safety demonstration project run by the Department of Transportation. Then just weeks ago, a DOT Inspector General's audit found that Mexican trucks and truck drivers are as safe as their U.S. counterparts. Now, the Government of Mexico has announced retaliatory tariffs on about $2.4 billion of U.S. manufactured and agricultural exports to Mexico... (Photo from mexicotrucker: "... here is proof positive that the Mexican trucking industry is not comprised of aging unsafe junk trucks. These images are the facts of what is happening in Mexico, not the exception")
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