| Re: Fed Fights for Mexican Trucks [message #797593] |
Tue, 11 March 2008 01:08 |
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On Mar 10, 12:26=A0pm, Jose <pabl... [at] todito.com> wrote:
> By SUZANNE GAMBOA - 1 hour ago
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> WASHINGTON (AP) -- Transportation Secretary Mary Peters surrounded
> herself with some well-known U.S. exports -- corn, rice and Jack
> Daniel's whiskey -- to dramatize her warning Monday of economic losses
> if Mexican trucks are kept off U.S. roads.
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> Peters is fighting in court against a law that sought to end a pilot
> project allowing Mexican trucks greater access to U.S. roads.
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> The North American Free Trade Agreement gave Mexican trucks the access
> beginning in 1995. But the U.S. only opened the roads to a few trucks
> when the pilot program began last September.
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> Long-standing opposition from labor and safety groups had kept the
> trucks off most U.S. roads. Without the program, Mexican trucks are
> confined to about 25 miles beyond the border where goods they bring
> are picked up by a U.S. truck driver to deliver throughout the U.S.
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> Peters' predictions came the day before a Senate committee's hearing
> on the program. Congress tried to stop the program by stripping money
> for the project from the Department of Transportation last year.
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> "Should Congress ... end the cross border trucking, Mexico has every
> right to impose fees and tariffs on the very goods we see before us
> this morning and many more," Peters told a news conference. Before her
> were tables loaded with apples, ham, soybeans, rice, eggs, canned
> chile and meat, beef, a milk carton, bottles of Jack Daniel's whiskey
> and other products.
>
> http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gS-m4Yjshshs5GBeExfTKOq7Y y8wD8VANDIO2
Up her arse with a Mexican truck.
ted
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| Re: Fed Fights for Mexican Trucks [message #797594 ] |
Tue, 11 March 2008 01:19 |
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>> "Should Congress ... end the cross border trucking, Mexico has every
>> right to impose fees and tariffs on the very goods we see before us
>> this morning and many more," Peters told a news conference. Before her
>> were tables loaded with apples, ham, soybeans, rice, eggs, canned
>> chile and meat, beef, a milk carton, bottles of Jack Daniel's whiskey
>> and other products.
Nothing like managed trade.... of course US trucks can't roam mexico.
And even if they were allowed by Mexico's government, they would be
robbed anyway.
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| Re: Fed Fights for Mexican Trucks [message #797612 ] |
Tue, 11 March 2008 04:44 |
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Brent P wrote:
>>> "Should Congress ... end the cross border trucking, Mexico has every
>>> right to impose fees and tariffs on the very goods we see before us
>>> this morning and many more," Peters told a news conference. Before her
>>> were tables loaded with apples, ham, soybeans, rice, eggs, canned
>>> chile and meat, beef, a milk carton, bottles of Jack Daniel's whiskey
>>> and other products.
>
> Nothing like managed trade.... of course US trucks can't roam mexico.
> And even if they were allowed by Mexico's government, they would be
> robbed anyway.
>
>
A while back IBM came up with the bright idea of building ThinkPad
laptops in Mexico, but they started having problems with theft...
sometimes whole truckloads would disappear.
So someone decided the thing to do was to have a convoy with armed
guards. It did not turn out well, the whole convoy, trucks, ThinkPads,
guards and all vanished.
IBM has since sold the division that made the ThinkPads to the
Chinese... and sadly the ThinkPad I'm writing this on was made in China.
Jeff DeWitt
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