Mexico threatens tariffs against U.S.
July 28, 2007

MEXICO CITY — Mexico is prepared to impose tariffs on U.S. goods unless the U.S. fulfills an agreement to let Mexican trucks carry goods across the border, Transportation and Communications Minister Luis Tellez said.
Tellez, responding to a July 24 vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to delay the start of a trial cross-border trucking program, said the North American Free Trade Agreement permits retaliatory tariffs. The House voted to limit Mexican trucks for a year to a zone within 25 miles of the border. President Bush had agreed to start the plan in April.
"Should the U.S. Senate affirm the House decision, we will have no option but to take retaliatory commercial measures against the U.S.," Tellez said.

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