Mexico Seeks Nafta Damages
Truckers Say U.S. Violations Cost Billions Yearly

By Sean McNally, Senior Reporter

This story appears in the May 12 print edition of Transport Topics.

Mexico’s principal trucking group said its members have lost more than $2 billion a year because the United States has refused to allow cross-border trucking as required by the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement and that it is seeking damages through arbitration.

The action by Camara Nacional del Autotransporte de Carga, or Canacar, is the latest development in the long dispute over allowing Mexican trucks to deliver freight to destinations within the United States.

Canacar said the United States violated NAFTA by “refusing entry of [Mexican trucks] into the United States for provision of trucking services and by prohibiting [them] from investing in United States enterprises that provide such services.â€