Cross Border Agreement signed. OOIDA already in Court – Higher Tariffs possible as a result

Jul 062011
 
 06/07/2011  Posted by PMC at 15:25 on 06/07/2011 Comments Off
Cross Border Agreement signed. OOIDA already in Court - Higher Tariffs possible as a result

It didn’t take long after today’s announcement of the official signing of the Cross Border Pilot Program agreement in Mexico City for opponents to come out swinging with the lies, fear mongering and preying on the ignorance of those too apathetic to look for the truth for themselves. And as expected, OOIDA is headed to court. In a “Special Report” senior editor Jami Jones writes: The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association immediately filed a petition for review with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The Association is asking the court to review the program and to “enjoin, set-aside, ….Read More

Amidst the hysteria of OOIDA, in reality, it’s much ado about nothing

Apr 052011
 
 05/04/2011  Posted by PMC at 21:13 on 05/04/2011 Comments Off
Amidst the hysteria of OOIDA, in reality, it's much ado about nothing

As resolution to the longstanding stalemate over allowing Mexican trucks access to our highways, as we agreed to do almost 20 years ago, is weeks, if not days away, OOIDA has issued another of their silly little “Calls to Action” exhorting it’s diminishing membership to call and annoy their Representatives about this inconsequential issue. The continued opposition by Teamsters, OOIDA and their allies continues to cost tens of thousands of American jobs and tremendous loss of market share in the agribusiness sector. Not that it matters to either of these organizations if they can keep a handful of Mexicans out ….Read More

Guest Editorial – Mexico trucking issue hits home for U.S. agriculture

Mar 312011
 
 31/03/2011  Posted by PMC at 19:20 on 31/03/2011 Comments Off
Guest Editorial - Mexico trucking issue hits home for U.S. agriculture

By Nelson Balido President Border Trade Alliance The Border Trade Alliance earlier this month expressed its optimism that a framework announced by President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderón for setting the trucking issue was a real step in the right direction. If all this sounds familiar, it’s because the dispute over trucking dates back to the Clinton administration, when bogus claims over truck safety and environmental damage first won out over the need to comply with the North American Free Trade Agreement signed with our friends and neighbors, Canada and Mexico. We’ve been close to settling this issue before, and ….Read More

Friday Rants and other nonsense about Mexican trucks

Mar 282011
 
 28/03/2011  Posted by PMC at 08:45 on 28/03/2011 Comments Off
Friday Rants and other nonsense about Mexican trucks

Anybody have the chance to listen to Landlinenow on Friday when senior editor Terry Scrotum got his panties in a bunch over the upcoming renewal of the Mexican truck program? It was good for a chuckle or two, especially Terry’s feigned indignation.   At issue was a recent comment by Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood regarding the Mexican truck program. Secretary LaHood stated: “We’re working with the trucking industry on their ability to continue to be competitive. They weren’t particularly enamored of some of the proposals that were being floated around with respect to the Mexican truck – the cross ….Read More

Mexico agrees to stop “rotation” of tariff’s but will not lift them until agreement is reached

Jan 112011
 
 11/01/2011  Posted by PMC at 08:28 on 11/01/2011 1 Response »
Mexico agrees to stop "rotation" of tariff's but will not lift them until agreement is reached

MEXICO CITY – Mexico will maintain punitive tariffs on 99 U.S. products but will not add any more goods or change the list pending negotiations over a new program to allow Mexican cargo trucks on U.S. roads, the government announced Monday. Economy Secretary Bruno Ferrari said the move is a show of goodwill as the two countries begin discussing an initiative the U.S. presented last week to lift a U.S. ban on Mexican trucks. “As of this moment we stop that rotating process” — the expansion of the taxed list and the periodic changing of goods subject to the punitive ….Read More

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:

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

Aug 182010
 
 18/08/2010  Posted by PMC at 17:56 on 18/08/2010 5 Responses »
Revised Mexican tariff's released today in response to US failure to resolve trucking dispute

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.

Resolution to Mexican Truck issue “very close” according to LaHood

May 072010
 
 07/05/2010  Posted by PMC at 10:46 on 07/05/2010 2 Responses »
Resolution to Mexican Truck issue "very close" according to LaHood

Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Thursday told a Senate subcommittee than the Obama administration’s intention was to restart the Cross Border Demonstration Project with Mexico and that a new proposal would be presented to senators “very soon” and that it was even “very close.” Two months ago, LaHood told the same panel that a new proposal was “very near.” LaHood’s comments Thursday came during questioning from Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. LaHood and HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan were testifying before a subcommittee on an Interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities.

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