Official: Obama, Mexican president reach trucking agreement

[Hazcat]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday will announce a plan to open up U.S. highways to Mexican trucks, removing a longstanding roadblock to improved relations between the North American allies.

An Obama administration official said the two leaders have agreed to a phased-in plan that would authorize both Mexican and U.S. long-haul carriers to engage in cross-border operations, provided that the Mexican trucks meet U.S. safety standards. Both countries were given this authority under the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, but the U.S. has refused to allow Mexican trucks access amid concerns over its ability to meet America’s stringent safety and environmental standards.

Mexico has placed higher tariffs on dozens of U.S. products in response to the unresolved dispute. The official said Mexico will agree to lift those tariffs in phases, with all tariffs lifted once the first Mexican carrier receives authorization to travel on U.S. roads.

Negotiating teams are still working out final details of the plan, and are expected to send an agreement to Congress this spring, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss the plan ahead of Obama’s public statement.

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http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/03/official-obama-mexican-president-reach-trucking-ag/

This should be the final nail in US trucking!  Now companies will ship into Mex at very low cost and pay 1/2 price for trucking!  Any one know if that 'Trans Texas Hwy" still being pushed?

[jaybet]

Unbelievable.

[TAB]

if you think things are bad now, just wait.

f....k dumb ass

[Ichiban]

Almost every day I think "Wow!  How's he going to top that stupidity?"
And yet, he always seems to find a way.   

[fightingquaker13]

Anyone else regretting mocking Ross Perot? A giant sucking sound indeed.
FQ13

[Sponsor]

[Hazcat]

As I said this will affect not only trucking but port traffic as well.  Ports and longshoremen in Mex cost a whole lot less.  The unions MUST be infuriated at this.  I HOPE they finally realize what they shoved down our throats with Obummer.

[JC5123]

As I said this will affect not only trucking but port traffic as well.  Ports and longshoremen in Mex cost a whole lot less.  The unions MUST be infuriated at this.  I HOPE they finally realize what they shoved down our throats with Obummer.

That's what really blows my mind about this! He is so beholden to the unions, and he turns around and does something like this? Isn't this like slitting your own throat? And after all his grandstanding with the Wisconsin union fiasco.

Almost every day I think "Wow!  How's he going to top that stupidity?"
And yet, he always seems to find a way.   

I couldn't have said it better myself.

[tombogan03884]

Anyone else regretting mocking Ross Perot? A giant sucking sound indeed.
FQ13

No, because thinking people didn't mock RP. Only the "intellectual" socialist elite did that. The same self righteous assholes that voted for BO despite the fact he had never actually held a job, produced anything, or completed anything and surrounded himself with party hacks, communists, socialists, racists, terrorists, and other criminals.

[Hazcat]

No, because thinking people didn't mock RP. Only the "intellectual" socialist elite did that. The same self righteous assholes that voted for BO despite the fact he had never actually held a job, produced anything, or completed anything and surrounded himself with party hacks, communists, socialists, racists, terrorists, and other criminals.

+1!  White liberal guilt elected this disaster!

[JC5123]

+1!  White liberal guilt elected this disaster!

No it was the college students who voted in record numbers in the 2008 election. If you look at demographics they were almost non existent in the 2010 cycle.