Posted on 06/02/2009 4:38:43 AM PDT by radar101
MEXICO CITY -- A Mexican trade association representing more than 4,500 trucking companies is seeking $6 billion in damages from the U.S. government because of Washington's refusal to allow Mexican trucks to carry cargo over U.S. roads.
The group, Canacar, filed a demand for arbitration under the North American Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. State Department in April, but didn't publicize the move until Monday.
"We want reciprocity," said Pedro Ojeda, a lawyer for Canacar. "The U.S. has notoriously not kept its commitments." Mr. Ojeda said the complaint is the largest such demand made under Nafta, as the 1993 pact is known.
Deborah Mesloh, a spokeswoman for U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, said Monday that, "We take our trade obligations very seriously and this is an issue we've been working on for a couple months." A State Department spokesman said the claim is "being studied."
The arbitration demand is the latest fallout from legislation signed earlier this year by President Barack Obama canceling a pilot program that had allowed Mexican trucks to carry cargo on U.S. roads. In March, the Mexican government retaliated by slapping tariffs on $2.4 billion of U.S. goods.
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EPI? Haven’t seem them used as a source here in a long time. Are they further left than Public Citizen? Nice sources he uses...union thugs and socialists. What’s next, CPUSA? Why not add the communist perspective on NAFTA? LOL!
Now we have, "I didn't read it--I don't know where it came from--you can't associate me with it."
The WTO and NAFTA, like other FT agreements, do lower tariffs between countries but, at the same time, use international rulings to override local law and pile on more regulation than existed before.
If having Socialist UN-like groups and international banking families controlling the course of global trade is your cup of tea, then you and your buddies are far from being the Reagan Conservatives you claim to be.
Look at the current economy. Is it really working the way you would like?
I'll admit I posted some material that was less than *from a Conservative* viewpoint. (mostly for some of the info compiled) The reason for that was because believers in the current form of *free trade*, IMO, veil themselves behind partisan politics to hide their real intentions. (I noticed you all rely on **government** websites to make your point) This drive toward a complete globalization of the economy is nothing more than the first (or last) steps of a takeover by a One World Socialist regime as described in the Bible.
Funny how those complaints dried-up when Heritage published the Rector study on the true costs of illegal immigration, which I believe is still the most comprehensive work on the subject out there. Where do you think EPI and Public Citizen fall on that issue, anyway?
The real question, who is actually standing up for THIS country's freedoms and sovereignty?
Information cannot be trusted, regardless of source (government or special interest group). Therefore, we must form our conclusions on the basis of no information. Got it.
Sounds like the advice divorce lawyers give their clients...deny, deny, deny.
It works in Texas.
God protect me, but should that every happen to me....well, I guess I’ll be shot or stabbed at that time, cause I’m gona have my say, out loud and in my very plain ENGLISH....
US trucks do not normally go into Mexico, they take it to the border unload. Then the load goes thru customs, inspection and is loaded onto a Mexico truck for delivery.
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