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Border opens to Mexican trucks
utsandiego ^
| 8:43 P.M.JAN. 12, 2015
| Sandra Dibble
Posted on 01/22/2015 5:11:00 PM PST by dila813
The United States is preparing to open the border to Mexican long-haul truckers, allowing those who qualify for permits to make direct deliveries from Mexico to U.S. destinations — a measure stipulated more than two decades ago under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is expected to publish a formal announcement this week inviting Mexican companies to apply.
Supporters in United States and Mexico are praising the move as an important step toward the economic integration of the two countries and Canada that was envisioned at NAFTA’s signing in 1994.
(Excerpt) Read more at utsandiego.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nafta
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To: Drango
payback for Mexico endorsing Democrats in the US, its all about the votes
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posted on
01/22/2015 5:29:24 PM PST
by
dila813
To: rovenstinez
You better watch that kind of talk! You’ll get yourself in trouble here. Not that, that’s a bad thing.
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posted on
01/22/2015 5:31:08 PM PST
by
Valin
(I'm not completely worthless. I can be used as a bad example.)
To: dila813
that sound we’ll heat... that WHOOOSH, made famous by ross pearot....wont be t the sound of jobs going south of the border.. it will be the sound of trucks sllding of the highway....
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posted on
01/22/2015 5:32:31 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: dila813
abother thing how can trucks using Mexican Gas...possibly be allowed to drive in California .....with its stringent Seasonally Adjusted Boutique Gasoline Varieties??
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posted on
01/22/2015 5:33:59 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: dila813
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Oct 21, 2011 - NAFTA called for Mexican trucks to be allowed to travel beyond a six- to 25-mile wide "commercial zone" in the United States by December ...
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Jan 12, 2015 - The United States is preparing to open the border to Mexican ... the two countries and Canada that was envisioned at NAFTA's signing in 1994.
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Mar 29, 2007 - Roadblocks for Mexican trucks in U.S. (Duncan Hunter - NAFTA ... asked the Mexican Senate to cancel the trucking provisions of NAFTA.
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Sep 11, 2007 - Opponents said the U.S. is applying tougher standards to Mexican trucks than to Canadian trucks and failing to live up to its NAFTA obligations.
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posted on
01/22/2015 5:39:43 PM PST
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: dila813
This was a provision of NAFTA that was supposed to be implemented years ago, but the U.S. government kept deferring it for “safety reasons.”
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posted on
01/22/2015 5:40:07 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
To: Ditter
In that sewer the lines on the road are just to point them in the right direction.
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posted on
01/22/2015 5:45:42 PM PST
by
LouAvul
(If government is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
To: Nervous Tick
I will do most anything including ignoring a Federal court order to go into Austin to stay off I35 just not worth the risk or aggravation. Getting good at the back roads or toll roads thing . Austin has some nice things but not worth I35. Feel for those who have to drive it everyday.
To: dila813
Wonder when the first spectacular fatality accident caused by an unsafe Mexican truck driven by an unlicensed operator will occur...
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posted on
01/22/2015 5:49:54 PM PST
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: Theoria
Yes, nothing about Obama clearing them
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posted on
01/22/2015 5:57:05 PM PST
by
dila813
To: Menehune56
I’m thinking that this move just effectively put the last nail in the coffin on the War on Drugs.
There is no way that we’ll be able to manage the smuggling - of drugs or people. Heck, we can’t stop it with the way things are now.
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posted on
01/22/2015 5:57:26 PM PST
by
Marie
To: dila813
Go back to 2011 for the first truck to cross into the US under the NAFTA agreement.
Nearly 20 Years After NAFTA, First Mexican Truck Arrives In U.S. Interior
Updated: 12/24/2011 5:12 am EST
DALLAS -- Nearly two decades after the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the
first Mexican truck ventured into the U.S. under provisions of the controversial treaty.
With little fanfare, a white tractor-trailer with Mexican license plates entered the courtyard
of the Atlas Copco facility in Garland, Texas on Saturday afternoon to unload a Mexico-
manufactured metal structure for drilling oil wells.
The delivery marked the first time that a truck from Mexico reached the U.S. interior under
the 17-year-old trade agreement, which was supposed to give trucks from the neighboring
countries access to highways on both sides of the border. The Obama administration signed
an agreement with Mexico to end the long dispute over the NAFTA provision in July that
also removes $2 billion in duties on American goods.
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posted on
01/22/2015 6:10:41 PM PST
by
deport
To: rovenstinez
For 29 years I have lived in Mexico, I acquired permanent residence. Hey you arn't an American, fart me La Cucaracha....
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posted on
01/22/2015 6:17:33 PM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: dila813
Those in the business dealing with this betrayal of our sovereignty could not care less. They’d take shipments directly from terrorist if it meant a bit of a profit. Not to mention sending their factories to Communist China.
Bigbiz has 0 zip allegiance to America.
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posted on
01/22/2015 6:51:00 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Valin
Have an accident down in old Mexico in your car/truck and you in a heap a trouble boy.
I don’t go there and don’t want them here. Last time I was close to that s***hole, outside LAX, a cholo hit my car and ran like a rabbit.
Screw the North American Union, Mexico, Obama and his illegal future Democrats.
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posted on
01/22/2015 8:11:10 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: rovenstinez
I lived in Chihuahua, Chihuahua for 10 years. Yes you are correct about the class of highways in MX. As a matter of fact, I’ll bet that most Northern Mexican highways are superior to all the interstates in Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois on any given day.
Still...we know what those trucks bring into the USA via México....mostly trouble.....MHO of course.
To: dila813
Just another open channel to people and material to do US harm.
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posted on
01/22/2015 8:15:42 PM PST
by
Awgie
(truth is always stranger than fiction)
To: Ditter
In Mexico the trucks and busses spew smoke like mad...
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posted on
01/22/2015 8:46:33 PM PST
by
Rodamala
To: Rodamala
I saw a lot of trucks and cars in Mexico driving on the highway with a bent frame. We rode in a taxi that had a bent frame. It looks so weird, they are driving straight but the body of the vehicle is at an angle. They wouldn’t pass inspection in the US.
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posted on
01/22/2015 8:54:06 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: dila813
I hope we are making them toe the line on safety like we do with the Canadians. A picture painted on the cab of the Virgin of Guadeloupe is no substitute for good brakes
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posted on
01/23/2015 3:48:44 AM PST
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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