Interesting interview with Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Davidow, American Enterprise Institute’s Phil Levy, and Independent Drivers Association Owner-Operator Rod Nofziger on the future of NAFTA and trade between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. It’s interesting to watch Nofziger’s vacant stare like a fish out of water against Davidow and Levy, two heavyweights who know what they are talking about. Nofziger’s rant starts at about 4:02 into the video and it is nothing special. Simply repeating the same scripted lies which Ambassador Davidow easily debunks, as we have here, many times. But, it is interesting to watch. Watch the ….Read More
20/03/2009
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Kenneth Mead, a former inspector general who reviewed the pilot program, said the Mexican trucks that participated in it received scrutiny well beyond what the average U.S. trucker faces. “If you applied the same standards to U.S. trucks, you’d probably enhance safety,”
18/03/2009
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Has anyone thought about the cost to American business and American consumers when the righteous tariff’s take effect in a couple of hours? Has anyone thought of the potential job loss to American workers? It is for certain Jimmy Hoffa could care less. Nor does Todd Spencer of OOIDA who is of the opinion that Mexico is simply blowing smoke up peoples asses, as he so disdainfully stated on the Trucking Bozo radio program the other day. They’re both preening and patting themselves on the back about their shallow victory. That’s right, it was published in the Federal Register today. ….Read More
16/03/2009
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La fracción priista en la Cámara de Diputados exhortó a las secretarías de Economía y Hacienda a fijar una postura respecto a la decisión del gobierno de EU para bloquear el ingreso de camiones mexicanos a ese país México.- Luego de que el presidente estadunidense Barack Obama canceló el programa piloto de transporte transfronterizo, la bancada del Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) en San Lázaro exigió al titular de Economía, Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, aplicar medidas urgentes en este tema. El coordinador del Grupo de Trabajo en Materia Migratoria del PRI en la Cámara de Diputados, Edmundo Ramírez Martínez, lamentó la decisión ….Read More
16/03/2009
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You asked for it, you got it! MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico says it will increase tariffs on about 90 U.S. products in retaliation for last week’s decision to cancel a pilot program that allowed some Mexican trucks to transport goods within the United States. The Mexican Economy Department says the U.S. decision violates a provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement that was supposed to have opened cross-border trucking years ago. Department officials told a news conference Monday that the measure will affect about $2.4 billion in trade: 90 agricultural and industrial products from 40 U.S. states. It ….Read More
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01/06/2008
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The North American Free Trade Agreement has become a hot topic in the presidential campaign, with Democrats blaming it for lost jobs and Republicans praising it for boosting exports. Who’s right?
31/01/2008
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Thousands of Mexican farmers, some riding tractors and herding cows, flooded the capital Thursday to demand government protection against cheap U.S. imports.Trade barriers under the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, were lifted in January, opening Mexico for the first time to tariff-free U.S. exports of traditional food like corn and beans. Mexican farmers complain the government of President Felipe Calderón is not doing enough to protect them against highly subsidized U.S. goods. Protesters are demanding Mexico renegotiate the treaty with the United States to maintain protections for corn and beans. Long lines of slow-moving tractors choked highways from ….Read More