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MEXICANS' TRUCKS * USA - Bill Introduced to Kill NAFTA
Legislation would withdraw U.S. from trade pact within six months
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Mar 4, 2010: -- A bill that would end the North American Free Trade Agreement was introduced Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives... The bill would require President Obama to withdraw the U.S. from NAFTA within six months... The bill was sponsored by 24 Democrats and three Republicans... Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss. said withdrawing from NAFTA would help keep jobs in the U.S. and reduce unemployment... James P. Hoffa, general president of the Teamsters union, backed the bill. “We were sold a bill of goods about NAFTA,” he said... (Photo: Mexicans Trucks)* NAFTA truck trade sees first boost in 15 months
Washingron,DC,USA -Today's Trucking (CAN) -4 March 2010: -- Surface transportation trade between the U.S., Canada and Mexico saw its first year-over-year boost in over a year to close out 2009... According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), NAFTA land trade in December 2009 settled 10.5 percent higher than the same month the year before, with a value of $58.5 billion... This was the first year-over-year increase since September 2008...* USA - Mexican truck revival project nearing
Washington,DC,USA -Todays' Trucking -5 March 2010: -- A plan to reconcile the year-long trade dispute between the U.S. and Mexico is on its way, says Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood... After Bush's Mexican truck demonstration project was cancelled by the Obama administration last year, the Mexican government slapped $2.4 billion in retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods... Congress and the DOT have been under pressure to reinstate the program, or something similar, ever since... The program, which was under attack from unions and special interest groups from the start, allowed select Mexican carriers to cross the American border beyond the longstanding 25-mile restriction zone... "We are very near a proposal that we feel will meet all of the safety concerns that I heard when I talked to 25 members of Congress," LaHood told a Senate Subcommittee on Transportation and Housing on Thursday... (Photo from ABC News - The Mexican expanded truck traffic across the border since the NAFTA trade agreement in the mid 1990s)
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