| Re: Fed Fights for Mexican Trucks [message #797621] |
Tue, 11 March 2008 06:27 |
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On Mar 10, 8:44=A0pm, Jeff DeWitt <JeffDeW... [at] nc.rr.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> > 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.
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> So someone decided the thing to do was to have a convoy with armed
> guards. =A0It 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
cite?
No?
go figure.
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