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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Dollars over humanity. <);~)
Personally, I think it's because some people don't wear hats in the sun.
So I’m going to assume we won’t need to save a seat at the table for you?
Why don’t you start that *Texas* thread. I’ll gladly come post if you ping me. I’ll also bring a few friends.
Friends, as in other people who do not read the stuff they post before posting it? No thanks.
I wouldn’t want to expose my friends to people who take everything out of context either.
Face it, you didn't know dick when you started posting your examples, and now you're pretending it never mattered.
Naw, I don’t know *dick* (except a couple of Yankees)
Remember this site?
http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/bp173/
NAFTA was created to embellish the elites. Even the pols that voted for it are having second thoughts.
Remind me, is it from another one of those groups you don't associate with? LOL
I work alone, unlike you and your uh.....ping list.
The numbers on that site speak for themselves but, if you you must.
EPI? LOL! Anything from CPUSA?
Vote on Mexican trucking: (actual topic of thread)
House 395 to 18
Senate 75 to 23
Now, who is wrong here?
Senate 75 to 23
Now, who is wrong here?
Was someone disputing the vote count?
The groups goes by the name “cancar”. How appropriate.
Canadians were assured that NAFTA and the earlier Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement were necessary to save the social safety net of which they are justly proud. Yet a dozen years later, government transfers to individuals have dropped from 11.5% of GDP to 7.8% of the country's GDP, and Canadian government's overall (non-military) program spending fell from 42.9% of GDP in 1992 to 33.6% of GDP in 2001 (see Canadian analysis starting on p. 53).
OMG! EPI is upset that welfare spending and overall government spending is lower since NAFTA.
That's some company you keep.
What's next in your bag of tricks? A DNC press release? With numbers that "speak for themselves," because you cannot?
The numbers speak for themselves, right? I mean, they must . . . because I agree with with them. I don't associate myself with them though, except when I do.
/protectionist
Outsourcing trucking seems like a good plan. Just look how great our economy has been doing since we got rid of all those other overpaid American workers. Now there’s more dollars than ever. Outsource all jobs, free money for everyone!
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