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MEXICANS' TRUCKS * USA - Mexican Official Insists on Permanent Truck Program
Mexico “not willing to take” another pilot program, says senior diplomat
(Video from YouTube, by ReutersVideo - 9 Feb 2010: US Trade Representative Ron Kirk told Reuters that Congress could be moving closer to allowing Mexican trucks back in the US. Deborah Lutterbeck reports)
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by R.G. Edmonson -Oct 15, 2010: -- Mexico will no longer accept a U.S. pilot program as a way of allowing Mexican trucks to operate in the U.S., a senior Mexican diplomat said Friday... “If you put in place a demonstration project similar to what we had, it can begin, but it can be defunded at any time,” said Jose Luis Paz Vega, the head of the trade and North American Free Trade Agreement office at the Mexican embassy in Washington. “Mexico is not willing to take that any more. We need a program that is permanent, that has certainty, and complies with NAFTA. And we’re not willing to accept anything less than that” ... Paz noted that U.S. manufacturers benefit from Mexico’s exports since 35 percent of the exported goods contain components imported from the U.S... Paz said it takes three trucks to move goods from Mexico to the U.S.: one that goes to the U.S. border, a second that drays the van across the border, and a third to move goods to their destination He called it an inefficiency that was harming the North American economy... Paz said that the Obama administration appears ready to resolve the issue. “I think they are waiting until the right time to do it,” he said. “Unfortunately that time has not come now for 15 years” ...
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