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Border ban angers Mexico truckers
Monday, August 10 @ 10:41:33 EDT by alipac (926 reads) |  As leaders from the US, Canada and Mexico gather for a summit, the BBC's Stephen Gibbs travels to Nuevo Laredo to meet Mexican truck drivers at the heart of a cross-border dispute with their powerful neighbour to the north.
Mexicans truck drivers insist their vehicles meet US safety demands
Israel Camarillo kisses the wooden crucifix hanging from his rear view mirror, crosses himself, and edges his 18-wheeler juggernaut onto Highway 85.
Topics: US, Canada, Mexico, NAFTA, trucks, drivers, trucking, shipping, Mexican, SPP, safety
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Calderon to press Obama to solve trucking dispute
Friday, August 07 @ 01:47:47 EDT by alipac (904 reads) | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon will press President Barack Obama Sunday for a quick resolution to a cross-border trucking dispute that prompted Mexico to retaliate on $2.4 billion of U.S. goods.
"President Calderon will press forward our position and it will be great if we can get this solved at the latest by the end of this year," a Mexican official told Reuters on Wednesday, speaking on condition that he not be identified.
Subjects: President Felipe Calderon, President Obama, cross-border trucking program, North American Free Trade Agreement
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Mexican Truckers File $6 Billion Claim Against U.S. in Nafta
Thursday, June 04 @ 01:28:52 EDT by alipac (980 reads) | June 2, 2009
Jose De Cordoba
The Wall Street Journal
Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
MEXICO CITY -- A Mexican trade association representing more than 4,500 trucking companies is seeking $6 billion in damages from the U.S. government because of Washington's refusal to allow Mexican trucks to carry cargo over U.S. roads.
The group, Canacar, filed a demand for arbitration under the North American Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. State Department in April, but didn't publicize the move until Monday.
Topics: NAFTA, Canacar, demand for arbitration filed, North American Free Trade Agreement, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Congress
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Mexico cheers Obama but fears his trade stance
Thursday, November 27 @ 12:32:46 EST by alipac (1527 reads) | MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government and business leaders are worried about U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's commitment to free trade and the war on drug cartels, even though Mexicans cheered his election win as a chance to restore a jaded friendship.
Mexico felt neglected as President George W. Bush, who made his first foreign trip as U.S. president to Mexico in 2001, became embroiled in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and failed to win a much-vaunted reform of U.S. immigration laws.
As "Obamamania" swept the world, polls showed three-quarters of Mexicans backed the Democrat for president, but Mexican exporters and President Felipe Calderon's government fretted about Obama's campaign promise to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.
Subjects = Illegal Immigration, Mexico, Barack Obama, free trade, drug cartels, NAFTA, President George W. Bush, immigration laws, Democrats, President Felipe Calderon, North American Free Trade Agreement, renegotiating NAFTA, Enrique Castro, economy, drug war, Mexican drug cartels, gun sales, border, immigration reform, Andres Rozental
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NAFTA & politics: Trade pact renegotiation sought
Sunday, September 21 @ 13:38:18 EDT by alipac (1897 reads) | NAFTA & politics: Trade pact renegotiation sought
By Vic Kolenc / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 09/21/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT
EL PASO -- The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement became a hot issue in the Democratic presidential primaries, and some unions and other groups are pushing to make it and other free-trade agreements issues in the closing weeks of this year's presidential race.
"We want to raise up the issue of trade and how important it is," said Marc Jacobson, director of the Texas Fair Trade Coalition in Dallas, an organization of about 40 unions and other groups that blames NAFTA for lost factory jobs in the United States and opposes other free-trade agreements modeled after NAFTA. It wants to see NAFTA and other trade agreements renegotiated.
"It's an issue that affects workers strongly and affects jobs, and we need to make sure our elected officials -- those being voted on this election -- support the interest of workers," Jacobson said.
SUBJECTS - NAFTA, North American Free Trade Agreement, US, Mexico, Canada, North American Free Trade Agreement, Democratic president, free-trade agreements, Texas Fair Trade Coalition in Dallas, Obama, John McCain
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Former Mexican president: Get over Michigan job losses
Sunday, September 14 @ 06:39:09 EDT by alipac (1865 reads) | Former Mexican president: Get over Michigan job losses
Ron French / The Detroit News
Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico, isn't a shy man. He calls President Bush the "cockiest" politician he's ever met; he talks glowingly of John McCain and less so of Barack Obama. And, he has a message for Michigan factory workers who have lost their jobs.
Get over it.
Those jobs aren't coming back, and Michigan should focus instead on the high-tech and service industries.
"In the end, Michigan factories have to compete with factories in Mexico and China," Fox said in a telephone interview Thursday. "Companies like General Motors and Ford and Maytag don't have an option. They either close the doors and fire their workers, or they move where they can gain economic competitiveness."
Subjects: Illegal Immigration, illegal immigrants, immigration, Vicente Fox, President Bush, John McCain, Michigan factory workers, Get over it, Michigan factories,General Motors and Ford, Wayne State University, U.S. immigration policies , American jobs, manufacturing jobs,
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House votes to end highway access for Mexican trucks
Sunday, September 14 @ 06:32:22 EDT by alipac (1722 reads) | House votes to end highway access for Mexican trucks
By JIM ABRAMS Associated Press
Sept. 9, 2008, 6:26PM
WASHINGTON — Dismissing a White House veto threat, the House voted Tuesday to end a pilot program giving Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways.
The Bush administration stressed that the United States is obligated, under the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, to open up American roads to Mexican truckers, and that terminating the year-old demonstration project would have repercussions for American trucks allowed into Mexico. Passage of the House bill, it said "would pose significant and immediate risks to U.S. interests."
But the pilot project, which permits up to 500 trucks from 100 Mexican companies access to U.S. roads, is opposed by trucking, consumer and environmental groups who say it would eliminate American jobs and that Mexican trucks are subject to less stringent safety regulations. They say Mexico lacks adequate drug testing and hours-of service standards and that the program could contribute to smuggling or insurance fraud.
TOPICS: Illegal Immigration, illegal immigrants, Mexcian Trucks, Bush administration, North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, pilot project, Mexican companies, U.S. roads, American jobs, safety regulations, Bush administration, presidential veto, Transportation Department, Teamsters, Sierra Club and Public Citizen, U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
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Official: Mexico open to new NAFTA talks More Integration
Saturday, August 02 @ 09:12:42 EDT by alipac (1810 reads) | Official: Mexico open to new NAFTA talks
By David Greising
Chicago Tribune correspondent
August 2, 2008
The Mexican government dismisses talk of disbanding NAFTA as politics, the country's economy minister said Friday, but it would back the idea of a new round of North American trade talks, with the aim of including issues such as the environment and labor.
Eduardo Sojo, in Chicago this week to address the U.S.-Mexican Chamber of Commerce, was responding to criticism of the 15-year-old trade accord that resurfaced during the Democratic presidential primaries this year.
"What we do believe that we need in the region, in North America, is more integration, not less integration," Sojo said in an interview with the Tribune.
TOPICS: Illegal Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Aliens, NAFTA, CAFTA, North American UNION, North American Trade, open borders, Mexico, Mexican Government, U.S.-Mexican Chamber of Commerce, more integration, North American Free Trade Agreement
Note: "What we do believe that we need in the region, in North America, is more integration, not less integration," Sojo said in an interview with the Tribune.
No what we need is cooperation to keep our citizens from illegally spilling over the borders. North America is a Continent not a country. We are America an independent sovereign nation.
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Insightful Texans Stall the NAFTA Superhighway
Sunday, July 06 @ 13:23:21 EDT by alipac (1937 reads) | Insightful Texans Stall the NAFTA Superhighway
(NaturalNews) Texans may well be handing the rest of America a blueprint for fighting big government. The people of Texas have finally found a way to halt the progress of the government in stripping them of their homes, businesses and property to build the Trans Texas Corridor (TTC), a critical link in the NAFTA Superhighway. By utilizing a little known state law, Texans are ensuring that their voices of opposition will finally be heard.
Four rural cities and their school districts have demanded that the Texas Department of Transportation stop its movement on the superhighway and coordinate with them in all planning, studies and management for the TTC, as required by state and federal law. This first substantial legal attack on the TTC is spearheaded by the Eastern Central Texas Sub-Regional Planning Commission (ECTSRPC), the first sub-regional commission formed under the Texas Local Government Code 391. If the Texas Department of Transportation complies with the demand, the TTC and therefore the NAFTA Superhighway and North American Union could be delayed for years.
The Texas Local Government Code, Chapter 391, requires state agencies "to the greatest extent feasible" coordinate with local commissions to "ensure effective and orderly implementation of state programs at the regional level". Coordinated studies would reveal the impact of the TTC on the people and the environment of Texas, which has so far been ignored. If the Department of Transportation refuses to comply with the demand, a federal lawsuit would be filed, also delaying the project for years.
TOPICS: NAFTA, Superhighway, Trans Texas Corridor (TTC), NAFTA Superhighway, opposition, school districts, Texas Department of Transportation, Eastern Central Texas Sub-Regional Planning Commission (ECTSRPC), North American Union, federal lawsuit, citizens, communities, farms, borderless, open transportations system, Bush, China, Mexico, multinational
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NAFTA Superhighways; Comical or Reality?
Saturday, March 22 @ 12:27:10 EDT by alipac (2133 reads) | NAFTA Superhighways; Comical or Reality?
President Bush proclaims the idea to be "quite comical" while evidence mounts this will be a reality...
by Gary Wood
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Last August, during the third annual Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) meeting, President Bush denounced the possibility of NAFTA superhighways or a North American Union. "It's quite comical, actually, when you realize the difference between reality and what some people are talking on TV about," was Bush's reply to the question, "Can you say today that this is not a prelude to a North American Union, similar to a European Union? Are there plans to build some kind of superhighway connecting all three countries?"
While President Bush proclaims it comical, just last August, it seems more an effort that will become reality in the near future. Speaking to the Free Trade Alliance of San Antonio earlier this week Eduardo Aspero stated, "Transportation linking the United States, Mexico and Canada is key to the future of NAFTA." Mr. Aspero is the President of the Mexican Intermodal Association. Intermodal transportation allows for the shipment of a container by various means (ships, rails, and trucks) without the need for packing and unpacking of the container.
TOPICS: Illegal Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, NAFTA, CAFTA, SuperHiway, Security and Prosperity Partnership, SPP, President Bush,North American Union, NAFTA superhighways, Free Trade Alliance of San Antonio, United States, Mexico and Canada, Transportation, Mexican Intermodal Association, Hutchinson Port Holdings, Chinese, Monzanilla and Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, Article 102, 1 (a) of the NAFTA agreement, North American Community, Council on Foreign Relations,
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Mexican Trucks Threat to Safety of US Citizens and US Jobs
Tuesday, March 18 @ 11:36:56 EDT by admin (1923 reads) | Washington, D.C. – Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa said that
Americans should be frightened by the Bush administration’s low regard
for safety as it opens the border to dangerous trucks from Mexico.
For example, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
chief John Hill told reporters that a Mexican trucking company with a
horrendous safety record didn’t have a history of serious violations
before it was accepted into the pilot program. Hill spoke after his
boss, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, testified before the Senate
Commerce Committee on why she chose to ignore Congress and keep the
program going.
According to the FMCSA’s own data, Trinity Industries de Mexico had 75
out-of-service orders and should have had another 476, according to its
own standards, in the year preceding September 21, 2007. According to
federal law, a truck or vehicle is placed out of service when an
“imminent hazard” is present. Trinity is no longer in the pilot
program.
Topics: Mexican trucks, illegal immigration, drugs, crime, NAFTA, CAFTA, FTAA, Norh American Union, NAU
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Senator thrashes Bush's Mexican truck hat dance
Thursday, March 13 @ 14:42:12 EDT by alipac (2286 reads) | WASHINGTON -- A combative Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters was accused in a Senate hearing yesterday of defying a congressional vote to halt the Bush administration's controversial project allowing Mexican trucks to operate freely on U.S. roads.
"I regret supporting your nomination to be secretary of transportation," Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., told Peters. "Your legal counsel is giving you bad advice that unfortunately you have willingly accepted."
Dorgan charged the Department of Transportation was "hell-bent on proceeding with this pilot program" regardless of safety concerns the agency's inspector general continues to document.
"You believe you have found a loophole, but you are making a very big mistake," Dorgan warned Peters.
Topics: NAFTA, Secretary of Transporation Mary Peters, Senate hearing, Bush administration, Mexican trucks, Sen. Byron Dorgan, safety concerns, loophole, Sen. Arlen Specter, Rep. Jim Oberstar, Rep. Peter DeFazio, General Accountability Office, investigation needed, DOT, Antideficienty Act violated, U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Teamsters, Supreme Court, WND, Senate voted to prohibit funds for DOT, D.J. Gribbin, Sen. John McCain, cross-border Mexican truck demonstration project, Calvin L. Scovel III, safety checks, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
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Obama camp told Canadians NAFTA TALK 'it's just rhetoric'?
Saturday, March 01 @ 10:54:41 EST by alipac (4068 reads) | Obama camp told Canadians 'it's just rhetoric'?
Network claims aide assured official that anti-NAFTA talk not serious
An operative of Sen. Barack Obama assured Canadian officials that the Democratic presidential candidate's talk of opting out of the North American Free Trade Agreement is just campaign rhetoric not to be taken seriously, alleges Canada's CTV television network
The Obama campaign told CTV late last night no such message was passed on to the Canadian government. But the network said it got no response to repeated questions about whether a conversation on the matter was held between Obama's senior economic adviser – Austan Goolsbee – and the Canadian Consulate General in Chicago.
TOPICS: Ilelgal Immigration, Illegal Immigratns, Illegal ALIAENS, NAFTA, North American Union, barack obama, Canada, rhetoric, Democratic presidential candidate, North American Free Trade Agreement, Austan Goolsbee, Hillary Clinton, McCain, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Peruvian trade agreement, globalization issues, NAFTA expansion
Posted: February 29, 2008
2:23 pm Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
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Final stage of NAFTA prompts Mexican farmers to rattle scythes
Sunday, December 30 @ 12:20:33 EST by alipac (1960 reads) | Final stage of NAFTA prompts Mexican farmers to rattle scythes
By JEREMY SCHWARTZ
Palm Beach Post-Cox News Service
Sunday, December 30, 2007
MEXICO CITY — Farmers and activists are planning a series of protests as NAFTA enters its final stage on New Year's Day, when the last tariffs and quotas on corn, beans, milk and sugar melt away.
Opponents of the North American Free Trade Agreement warn that the final lifting of trade barriers could spark even more migration from Mexico's devastated countryside and leave Mexico dependent on the United States for corn and beans, staples since the age of the Aztecs.
At least one peasant group has said the NAFTA expansion could spark armed rebellion in the countryside if President Felipe Calderón's government doesn't do more to protect small farmers.
TOPICW: Illegal Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, NAFTA, CAFTA, Mexican farmers, rattle scythes, MEXICO CITY, protests, Mexico, North American Free Trade Agreement, United States, corn and beans, armed rebellion, President Felipe Calderón, government, United States, Canada and Mexico
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55 Mexican trucks have U.S. clearance
Sunday, December 09 @ 07:55:02 EST by JimP (1650 reads) | Dec. 7, 2007, 10:38PM
55 Mexican trucks have U.S. clearance
By MEENA THIRUVENGADAM
San Antonio Express-news
Despite congressional action to pull funding for the program under
which they are operating, at least 55 Mexican trucks have received
approval to make deliveries anywhere within the U.S., according to the
latest data from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
An undisclosed number of trucks from another 37 Mexican carriers
also have been authorized to participate in the program pending the
filing of proof of insurance. Forty-one trucks from four U.S. carriers,
which have shown less interest in the program than their Mexican
counterparts, have gained similar access into Mexico.
The trucks are participants in a cross-border trucking program
aimed at satisfying one of the last outstanding components of the North
American Free Trade Agreement. Under the agreement, Mexican, Canadian
and U.S. commercial trucks were to gain access to one another's roads
within a few years of the signing of NAFTA. But court cases, union
opposition and politics have delayed the border's opening.
TOPICS: Illegal Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, Mexican Trucks, NAFTA, Mexican carriers,
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