Thread: Mexico, US Agree to Working Group on Trucking

Mexico, US agree to working group on trucking

Posted Monday, Apr. 12, 2010
The Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Mexico and the United States have agreed to set up a working group to discuss a cross-border trucking dispute.

The two countries say a solution to the issue of giving Mexican trucks access to U.S. interior states, and vice versa, is "the highest priority."

Mexico's secretary of communications and transport met with his U.S. counterpart in Mexico City on Monday to discuss that and other issues.

In early 2009, Mexico slapped tariffs on 89 U.S. products worth about $2.4 billion in retaliation for a U.S. decision to cancel a cross-border program for Mexican truckers.

The North American Free Trade Agreement required the U.S. to grant Mexican trucks full access by January 2000, but domestic opposition stymied that opening.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/04/12 ... group.html

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Oh goody! More American jobs lost to Mexicans because we can't repeal NAFTA! We have to adjust to being less well off, while the rest of the world makes money off of the U.S. on top of all the foreign aid we give them.

The Mexican truckers have already BEEN coming into the interior and a lot of them were falling apart. They ran a lot of bad tires and left them all over the roads.