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May 26, 2015

BORDER TROUBLES * USA / Mexico: Disproportionate U.S. inspections hurt trade

* Arizona - FMCSA personel carry out a a complete check of both the driver and equipment

-- The presence of federal transportation inspectors at Arizona’s international ports of entry continues to put the state at a disadvantage when competing for the billions of dollars in trade between Mexico and the United States, officials say... “It makes us less competitive, especially Nogales, over other ports of entry like McAllen, Laredo and Tijuana,” said Alejandro Andrade, president of the Nogales-based Safe Border Trucking Association. “Right now we have 17 (federal) inspectors here. In Otay Mesa, in California, they have zero. The inefficiency this produces and the cost it represents for Nogales exporters and importers is significant,” he said... Arizona’s international ports of entry have had a disproportionately high number of level one inspections, along with fines and out-of-service orders, when compared to ports in Texas and California, state transportation officials say... ADOT inspectors share the booth with their federal counterparts and either of them can request that a truck be sent back for additional inspection, based on their opinion... For the trucking and produce industry, this is where federal inspectors are hurting business... The goal of industry and state lobbying before the federal agency is to eliminate what amounts to an unfair trade barrier for Arizona, said the fresh produce industry’s Moore...
(Photo: Arizona Department of Transportation Enforcement officer Jose Estrada runs a level 1 inspection on the undercarriage of a Mexican based semi-tractor and trailer in the bay of the ADOT Motor Carrier Inspection Station at the Mariposa Port of Entry)   --  Nogales, AZ, USA - The Arizona Daily Star, by Luis F. Carrasco - May 23, 2015

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