So you think it all comes down to “We don’t want Mexican trucks because we don’t like Mexicans”? Be prepared for the consequences people.
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.
Mexican trucks operating in the United States could conceivably lower the cost of goods in your local supermarkets, home improvement stores, big package stores, etc. Continuing to block these trucks from coming across will make the cost of everything you buy which is imported from Mexico, more expensive.
Oh, I know what the argument is going to be. Quit buying Mexican made goods! Well people, you ain’t got a clue, but practically everything you use in your life has some connection to Mexico. From the appliances in your home to the car your drive.
Perhaps it’s time to see who is telling the truth. The opponents of anything Mexican or the FMCSA whom I believe has a handle on the truck issue.
We can sit here and debate the issue until the cows come home and nothing will be changed until the program is put into motion and we see for ourselves.
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