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Opinion – Mexican trucking tariffs harm U.S. pork industry’s market

Dec 052010

05/12/2010 Posted by PMC at 02:09 on 05/12/2010 Comments Off

Opinion - Mexican trucking tariffs harm U.S. pork industry’s market

By Sam Carney U.S. pork exports to Mexico are falling, and it’s not because Mexicans have lost their taste for pork. Since August, the price of getting U.S pork into the Mexican market has increased because of a tariff Mexico slapped on it, retribution for the United States failing to live up to a trade obligation. That duty makes U.S. pork more expensive for Mexicans to buy compared with, say, Canadian pork, which enters Mexico at a zero tariff rate. In fact, from August to September, U.S. pork exports going south of the border fell 20 percent while Canada’s increased ….Read More

112th Congress will be best shot at getting Cross Border Trucking up and running

Dec 032010

03/12/2010 Posted by PMC at 06:56 on 03/12/2010 Comments Off

112th Congress will be best shot at getting Cross Border Trucking up and running

Two key Republican House members are calling on the Obama administration to end an impasse with Mexico over cross-border trucking. Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statements today regarding the Mexican trucking dispute as the NAFTA Commission meetings commence in Mexico:

Mexico sends more troops to reinforce borderlands

Nov 252010

25/11/2010 Posted by PMC at 03:41 on 25/11/2010 Comments Off

Mexico sends more troops to reinforce borderlands

Almost 3,000 members of the Army, Marines and Federal Police reinforced military operations in the Tamaulipas municipalities of Nuevo Guerrero, Ciudad Mier, Miguel Aleman, Camargo and Diaz Ordaz in an attempt to stem the spiraling violence and the growing exodus of residents as rival bands of heavily armed criminals contest that area of the Texas Mexico border. Read More And with the arrival of the reinforcements, The First Casualties reported in “La Frontera Chica” offensive around Cd. Mier.

Mexico gets serious about cross border trucking issue

Nov 082010

08/11/2010 Posted by PMC at 15:16 on 08/11/2010 Comments Off

The Mexican government apparently is damned serious about trying to force the U.S. government to present it’s intentions in regards to the cross border trucking controversy. Sources close MTO have indicated that Mexico is considering rotating its list of U.S. products subject to retaliatory tariffs by early 2011 if the Obama administration fails to present a proposal for resolution of the cross border trucking provisions that would provide Mexican carriers quid pro quo access to US markets. The Mexican government will use all legal means to force the U.S. to comply with the trucking provisions of NAFTA, which the US ….Read More

21 dead in collision between tanker and bus in Sinaloa

Nov 082010

08/11/2010 Posted by PMC at 08:55 on 08/11/2010 Comments Off

21 dead in collision between tanker and bus in Sinaloa

A bus owned by Estrella Blanco of Sonora collided Friday night with a double tanker carrying 40,000 liters of gasoline on the highway outside of Palmillas Escuinapa, resulting in 21 fatalities. The tanker, owned by Specialized Transportation Robles and driven by Ruben Santos Padilla, had loaded at a PEMEX facility in Mazatlan earlier in the afternoon. The bus, was traveling from Mexico City, where it departed at 0600 with it’s final destination being Tijuana. The bus company is taking care of all funeral, travel and per diem expenses for the victims and the victims families, even though, according to officials, ….Read More

Mexico Cross-Border Trucking – A Mexican Border Perspective

Nov 082010

08/11/2010 Posted by PMC at 07:43 on 08/11/2010 3 Responses »

Mexico Cross-Border Trucking - A Mexican Border Perspective

The Journal of Commerce recently quoted Luis Paz Vega who is in leadership of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) office at the DC Mexican embassy – that redoing the Mexican Truck in the US “demonstration program” won’t work. They instead want us to adhere to NAFTA and open the border up. Here’s some thoughts…

Election 2010 & the Mexican Truck Issue

Nov 032010

03/11/2010 Posted by PMC at 06:34 on 03/11/2010 3 Responses »

The 2010 midterm elections came out about as expected, with the Repubs taking the House of Representatives and the Democrats retaining control of the Senate, guaranteeing two more years of gridlock and squabbling. How does this election bode for the United States finally complying with their obligations to allow Mexican trucks access to the US under the NAFTA provisions? Better now than before when Democrats controlled both houses of the legislature and had the unions and special interests had their hands up the asses of certain Congressmen and Senators.

Ministry of Defense (SEDENA) asks funding for additional checkpoints

Nov 022010

02/11/2010 Posted by PMC at 07:25 on 02/11/2010 Comments Off

Ministry of Defense (SEDENA) asks funding for additional checkpoints

The Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) acknowledging limitations on the inspection and review of motor vehicles on Federal roads in states considered drug corridors, has asked the Ministry of Finance for 1.6 million pesos to establish 13 permanent inspection stations. Current checkpoints see an average of 1,776 inspections daily, of commercial vehicles, and private autos. The Army desires to increase that to more than 5,000 a day to combat the trafficking of arms, drugs and human contraband.

Senators file bill to require EOBR’s in all interstate trucks

Sep 302010

30/09/2010 Posted by PMC at 00:22 on 30/09/2010 Comments Off

Senators file bill to require EOBR's in all interstate trucks

In what can only be described as political pandering in an election year, and with the backing of a coalition of mega trucking companies, Senator Mark Pryor (D-Ar) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tn) filed a bill known as The Commercial Driver Compliance Improvement Act (S. 3884) The bill, if passed, would require universal installation of electronic on-board recording devices for commercial motor vehicles. It would force the Department of Transportation to issue regulations within 18 months of the bill’s enactment, as well as setting design and performance standards for the devices. The regulations would take effect three years after the bill becomes ….Read More