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Presidents Obama & Calderon reach agreement on access for Mexican Trucks

Mar 032011

03/03/2011 Posted by PMC at 17:51 on 03/03/2011 1 Response »

In a joint presser today, President Obama and President Calderon jointly announced agreement on a renewed program allowing Mexican carriers access to the United States as agreed under the 1994 NAFTA agreement. The plan will allow for half of those tariffs to be lifted immediately. It will establish a reciprocal, phased-in pilot program that allows Mexican trucks to operate inside the U.S. provided they comply with a series of safety, driver-skills and language tests monitored by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Unfortunately, Mexico has stated anything less than full access will be unacceptable. A new pilot program could fall under ….Read More

Texas Senator John Cornyn & Texas DPS weigh in on proposed Mexican truck program

Jan 222011

22/01/2011 Posted by PMC at 21:51 on 22/01/2011 5 Responses »

Texas Senator John Cornyn & Texas DPS weigh in on proposed Mexican truck program

An interesting article published in the New York Times today titled U.S.-Mexico Trucker Dispute Takes a Step Forward offers some interesting quotes from Republican Texas Senator John Cornyn and a spokes for the Texas Department of Public Safety. Senator John Cornyn: “The cross-border trucking program boosts trade opportunities for the U.S. and creates jobs here in Texas. Mexican trucks must be held to stringent safety requirements — just like any carrier on U.S. highways.”

SA Express News Editorial – Take action on truck program – End a self-defeating trade war with Mexico over NAFTA provision

Jan 182011

18/01/2011 Posted by PMC at 09:15 on 18/01/2011 6 Responses »

Let’s see if I’ve got this right. James P. Hoffa of the Teamsters and Todd Spencer of OOIDA are correct in their opinions of Mexican trucks and 1400 plus trade associations, newspaper editors and business groups are wrong? And the aforementioned duo “speak” for the “majority” of Americans? I think not. The San Antonio Express News editorial board offered their opinion on the issue this morning.

Mexican Trucks Issue – When the truth runs counter to your agenda

Jan 182011

18/01/2011 Posted by PMC at 09:03 on 18/01/2011 Comments Off

It’s only a concept document at this point, but it has opponents of Mexico and Mexican trucking in full propaganda mode. The results of the former Cross Border Pilot Program proved that that the claims of the Teamsters, OOIDA and public safety groups were baseless and utterly false, but with this new round, that’s not stopping them. Once again they’ve enlisted Phyllis Schafly, an anti-feminist, anti-ERA conspiracy whackjob to carry the torch for them and thoroughly distort the issue. In her column today in TOWN HALL she writes.

Comedian James P. Hoffa – Mexican trucks don’t belong on U.S. highways

Jan 122011

12/01/2011 Posted by PMC at 10:25 on 12/01/2011 Comments Off

In todays Detroit News, Teamster’s President and amateur comedian James P. Hoffa has a column titled “Mexican trucks don’t belong on U.S. highways” As has been the case over the past 15 years that he’s been objecting to Mexican trucking, his claims have absolutely no basis in fact. Now, he continues to engage in fear mongering seeking to push all the right buttons using current events, that have nothing to do with allowing Mexican trucks to operate in this country. He uses the tired old debunked information about the former pilot program saying; “The Bush administration had already tried such ….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

OOIDA first out of the gate responding to proposed Mexican Truck Agreement with the same old BULLSHIT

Jan 062011

06/01/2011 Posted by PMC at 15:00 on 06/01/2011 1 Response »

OOIDA first out of the gate responding to proposed Mexican Truck Agreement with the same old BULLSHIT

As expected, Todd Spencer and OOIDA quickly released a statement opposing any effort by the FMCSA and the Obama administration to comply with out obligation under NAFTA. Our non compliance having cost us hundreds of thousands of jobs and a significant amount of market share due to the perfectly legal retaliatory tariffs Mexico imposed for our non compliance. Here is OOIDA’s statement: (Our opinion appears in between the paragraphs)

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

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.

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