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COURT DENIES TO STOP BORDER MEXICAN TRUCK PROGRAM * USA
* DC - Court Denies Teamsters, OOIDA Bids to stop cross-border mexican truck program
(Photo by Tom Biery/Trans Pixs) Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics -19 April 2013: -- A federal appeals court Friday denied attempts from two truck drivers’ organizations that had sought to stop the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s pilot program that allows Mexico-based companies to operate in the interior of the United States... The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected all of the arguments made by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association and the Teamsters union, saying that the program complies with all applicable laws and can proceed... After being suspended when the Obama administration took office, the cross-border pilot program was relaunched in October 2011 to comply with a provision in NAFTA and to stop $2.4 billion in annual retaliatory tariffs Mexico imposed on U.S. goods. The program is scheduled to last three years...
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