Aug 31

Fighting cross border trucking with fabrications and fear mongering

By PMC Cross Border Program, For your information, General, Mexican Information Sources, Mexican Trucks & Trucking View Comments
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A caller to a nationally known trucking news report show recently starting spewing his objections and telling all who would listen why Mexican trucks should be forever banned from US highways.

The days guest, a well known and respected journalist and trucking expert asked the caller;

“Where do you get this information?”

The caller, stunned at having his views questioned, stuttered and stammered for a moment and then blurted, “OOIDA of course!”

And the journalist responded that , and I’m paraphrasing, “That for all the time OOIDA has been objecting to Mexican trucks, they have not ventured one fact to support their oppostion”. The caller stammered a bit more and hung up.

The journalist was correct in his assessment as we’ve pointed out many times over the years, and the latest, from Mark H. Reddig, continues that trend.

In a blog post last week titled Questions about cross-border trucking? Here’s a couple of answers Reddig continued his campaign of fabrications and misinformation answering two questions.
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Aug 18

Revised Mexican tariff’s released today in response to US failure to resolve trucking dispute

By PMC Cross Border Program, NAFTA, Nafta Op View Comments
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Mexico released the list of revised tariffs today is response to the Obama Administrations continued refusal to comply with our obligations under the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The biggest impact comes in new agricultural and processed food products. The Mexican government imposed tariffs of 10-20 percent on products like chocolate, ketchup, chewing gum and cheese — all products of the manufacturing sector, made in American factories by American workers.
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Aug 17

With the announcement of renewed tariff’s, oppositions spin in full force

By PMC Cross Border Program, Mexican Trucks & Trucking, NAFTA View Comments
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It didn’t take long for the opponents of Mexican trucks, or for that matter, anything Mexican to come out with their discredited rants opposing the US fulfilling its obligation to allow Mexican trucks access to US roadways in the same manner Canadian trucks have been allowed for more than 10 years.

Teamster President James Hoffa was the first out of the chute with his tired sophomoric and overused rhetoric.
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Aug 16

Mexico Planning New Retaliatory Tariffs on U.S. Goods in Trucking Dispute

By PMC Cross Border Program, For your information View Comments
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Mexico will impose additional import tariffs on U.S. goods in retaliation for the U.S. government’s failure to restore a program allowing Mexican trucks to operate north of the border, according to an official at the Economy Ministry.

Mexican Economy Minister Bruno Ferrari plans to  announce a new list of U.S. products subject to tariffs today,sources at the ministry advised MTO. The official declined to be identified because he isn’t authorized to speak on the subject. Ferrari said the list will be published this week but refused to give further details. The total value of products tariffed would not exceed $2.5 billion, he said.

Mexico’s embassy in Washington said the revised list will include 99 products. A U.S. industry source said the retaliation is expected to hit U.S. pork.

Mexico’s government has patiently been waiting for the U.S. to propose a resolution to the standoff, which started when the U.S. Congress ended a pilot program last year that allowed Mexican trucks to deliver goods inside the U.S. Tired of the United States broken promises, Mexico responded in March 2009 by putting import tariffs on valued at $2.4 billion.

The United States agreed to open its market to Mexican trucks as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which took effect in 1994, but the U.S. Teamsters union and many of its supporters in Congress have fought implementation of that pledge.

Mexican based carriers have consistently shown an equal or better safety ratings than their US counterparts.

U.S. officials have promised on multiple occasions to take steps to resolve the standoff, and each time reneged. Presiden Barack Obama said in August 2009 he was committed to finding a solution.

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Aug 06

Sen. Patty Murray holding their “feet to the fire” for resolution of Mexican truck issue

By PMC American Politics, Cross Border Program, NAFTA View Comments
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WASHINGTON — A “frustrated” Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., late Monday said she had included language in the Fiscal Year 2011 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations bill that calls on the Obama administration to put forward a plan that would end retaliatory tariffs on Washington state agricultural products by Oct. 1.

The bill passed the THUD subcommittee, which Murray chairs, as well as the full Appropriations committee, and will now head to the full Senate for consideration.

“I am extremely frustrated that the administration has not yet acted while farmers across my home state of Washington continue to suffer under Mexico’s retaliatory tariffs,” Murray said. “I am urging both the Obama administration and the Mexican government to solve this issue and allow Washington state farmers to compete on a level playing field. Since there has been inaction for too long, I included specific language in the transportation spending bill giving the administration a clear deadline of Oct. 1 to solve this problem.”
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Aug 06

Aftermath of Hurricane Alex and the floods of 2010

By PMC Border News, For your information, Headlines, The Border View Comments
Canacar and the Federal Transport Police estimated more than 11,000 trucks were stranded between Monterrey and Nuevo Laredo

It’s been a helluva month here on the border in the aftermath of Hurricane Alex and the several tropical storms that followed.

At one point, all roads between Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey were closed for several days resulting in a backup of an estimated 11-22,000 trucks.

Parts of Reynosa are still underwater as the Rio Grande is slow in returning to normal there.

Laredo Texas looks as if a tsunami hit the banks of the Rio Grande where at one point, the water was lapping at the side beams of the international bridge, 60 feet above the river.

Freight in the area is still slow in getting back across the border as the maquillas in Monterrey and elsewhere are slowly recovering and gearing back up to full capacity.

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