09/08/2008  Posted by PMC at 19:07 on 09/08/2008 Comments Off
San Antonio Express News Editorial - U.S. should honor trucking provision

The Senate and the House approved the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993. If a nation decides to withdraw from NAFTA, the agreement specifies a six-month notification process. A president, with the support of Congress, can initiate this process. And a president, with the support of Congress, can attempt to renegotiate NAFTA. What a president and Congress can’t do is willy-nilly abrogate provisions they decide are not to their liking. But that’s exactly what Congress has been trying to do for 15 years by obstructing a cross-border trucking provision.

 
 25/09/2007  Posted by PMC at 23:42 on 25/09/2007 Comments Off

San Antonio Express-News Transportes Olympic, meet Stagecoach Cartage and Distribution. Olympic is a Mexican truck company in Nuevo León, the first to be certified by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to carry cargo into the interior of the United States in a one-year test of a provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement. A driver made the inaugural delivery this month of Mexican steel to a construction site in North Carolina. Stagecoach is an American trucking firm in El Paso, the first to be certified to carry cargo into Mexico under the same NAFTA provision. A week after ….Read More

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