NAFTA: Mexican truckers to drive cargo into US interior
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 11:24AM Click here for complete article > El Paso Times
May 29, 2011
Larry Romero, a commercial motor vehicle inspector, looks under a tractor coming into El Paso from Juarez at a state truck inspection station just east of the Bridge of the Americas port of entry. (Rudy Gutierrez / El Paso Times)As the Obama administration prepares to honor a 17-year-old treaty with Mexico allowing that country's long-haul trucks into the U.S. heartland, emotions are again at fever pitch as businesses on both sides of the border predict job losses and industry upheaval.
The North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, included a provision that the United States and Mexico would allow each other's trucks to haul cargo across the border for delivery anywhere inside the other country…
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