Thread: Mexico Seeks Nafta Damages

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€

GET OUT OF NAFTA... GET OUT OF ANYTHING THAT HAS GEORGE BUSH'S NAME ON IT

The $2 billion annual estimate is a combination of the costs of denied border crossings, lost profits, wasted capital investments and other associated costs.

Loss of revenue from drug and illegal alien smuggling isn't listed.........

Camara Nacional del Autotransporte de Carga, or Canacar sounds like a litigation leech.............

Based on the current conditions in Mexico, Mexican trucking into the U.S. could be deadly.

AirborneSapper7 wrote:

GET OUT OF NAFTA... GET OUT OF ANYTHING THAT HAS GEORGE BUSH'S NAME ON IT

Bush didn't sign the NAFTA agreement.

His Daddy Did

I am so freaking sick of NAFTA, Mexicrapco, and China...They have actually made me despise something...and that just really ticks me off! Very sad to think I once loved Mexico and some things Chinese...not anymore...Never again!!!!!!! They remind me of seed ticks...you can't see them jump on you, by the hundreds...and then you find them when they are stuck in your skin, all blown up and full of your blood....yuch!!!!!!!!!!!

GET OUT OF NAFTA... GET OUT OF ANYTHING THAT HAS GEORGE BUSH'S NAME ON IT

I'm confused, I thought NAFTA was Clinton's thing. I remember way before Hillary started running for Pres. seeing Bill Clinton on the Larry King show (promoting his biography) where he stated that he regretted NAFTA.

George Bush began the talks and Clinton enacted it.

December 8, 1993

NAFTA signed into law
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into law by President Bill Clinton. Clinton said he hoped the agreement would encourage other nations to work toward a broader world-trade pact.

NAFTA, a trade pact between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, eliminated virtually all tariffs and trade restrictions between the three nations. The passage of NAFTA was one of Clinton's first major victories as the first Democratic president in 12 years--though the movement for free trade in North America had begun as a Republican initiative.

During its planning stages, NAFTA was heavily criticized by Reform Party presidential candidate Ross Perot, who argued that if NAFTA was passed, Americans would hear a "giant sucking sound" of American companies fleeing the United States for Mexico, where employees would work for less pay and without benefits. The pact, which took effect on January 1, 1994, created the world's largest free-trade zone.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-hist ... le&id=5584

The Mexicans have thus far unilaterally allowed American trucking companies to buy Mexican trucking companies. Many of them are upset with competition in Mexico from American backed companies. I too would not trust a Mexican truck into the United States uninspected. However it looks like they are holding up more of their end of NAFTA than as regards trucking than we are.

The Mexicans sold their trucking companies for the money. For those that are upset about the trucking exclusion, they can deduct the $2 billion they've lost from the $30 Billion a year we lose in transfer payments to Mexico.

Or better yet, lets just cancel NAFTA all together. They can run their trucks in Mexico and we'll run our trucks in the US. They can find jobs for their people in Mexico and we'll find jobs for ours in the US. They can manufacture products they want to buy in Mexico and we'll manufacture products we want to buy in the United States. Then we can have a little tariff trade where they can buy stuff from us they don't have there and we'll buy stuff from them that we don't have here and we'll pay tariff taxes on it as appropriate.

So simple. It's called Fair Trade Policy instead of this Free Trade Treason the Bushes have shoved down our throats the past 15 years.