Mexico to raise tariffs on U.S. exports

[OhioChick]

Source: CNN.com

updated 1 hour, 16 minutes ago

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexico has announced plans to raise tariffs on almost 90 U.S. exports, Mexican and U.S. officials confirmed Monday.

The new trade measures are in retaliation for the cancellation earlier this year of a U.S. commercial trucking project and will target U.S. industrial and agricultural products delivered to Mexico, Mexico's state-run news agency said.

Mexico's Economic Secretary Gerardo Ruiz Mateos called the cancellation of the program a breach of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the agency said.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the trucking project was killed in the 2009 omnibus appropriations bill, but President Barack Obama has asked his administration to create a new program.

"Congress has opposed the project in the past because of concerns about the process that led to the program's establishment and its operation," Gibbs said.

The project allowed a small number of Mexican trucks to enter the United States beyond the normal commercial zones, and allowed some U.S. trucks the same privilege in Mexico.



Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/16/mexico.tariff/index.html?iref=24hours

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This is BS.

[spag68]

1. tariffs

Let me see if I have this right, Mexico puts tariffs on our goods because we canceled a bad plan. We on the other hand, if we even mention tariffs, we are bad people trying to harm world trade.

[AlphaCentauri]

2. Sounds fair to me

NAFTA & Dumping Subsidized Corn on Mexico Has Driven 1.5 Million Farmers off the Land & Forced Millions to Migrate Mexico's corn farmers see their livelihoods wither away
Cheap U.S. produce pushes down prices under free-trade pact
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_1371.cfm

To put this into perspective, U.S. farmers received $18 billion in subsidies and account for less than 3% of the labor force, while Mexican agricultural support programs contributed about U.S.$ 9 billion in 2002 to producers.


http://americas.irc-online.org/reports/2004/0402nafta_body.html

[avaistheone1]

3. Incredible. This goes to show that NAFTA only benefits corporate America, not the American people

and certainly not the Mexican people either.

Why does Obama still want to uphold NAFTA?

[ChromeFoundry]

4. If they want to raise tariffs...

That is up to them. But that shoe also fits this country and no other country should bitch over whatever we decide.

[Hoopla Phil]

5. Neat sig line. Oh, I replyed - sorry lol :)

[AlphaCentauri]

8. if we could place tariffs on drugs imports

the deficit is paid off

[CHIMO]

6. So Is

This the notice that Mexico is pulling out of NAFTA in six months?

[tomm2thumbs]

7. Good. Then their folks will simply come to the US and sneak stuff back like they do guns

They are only hurting themselves because people will still buy the goods, but now it will be undercover and the government won't get ANY tax.

Keep it up!

[PSPS]

9. I think this is a great idea

If our products (do we even make anything anymore to export?) end up costing more in Mexico, Mexico's domestic industry will benefit and employ more Mexican workers. This is something we should do with our imports as well -- bring back tariffs to protect domestic industries.

[winyanstaz]

10. We will see your tariff on American imports and raise you double

...tarifs on your Mexican imports and send back a bill for all the illegal citizens from your Nation as we help them become legal here as well. If you are not taking care of your own people, you should pay their bills if we have to.
We will see who folds first.

[AlphaCentauri]

11. also we won't accept no more tax contributions by illegals

:evilgrin:

[Lasher]

12. Great idea, tariff like the wind.

USA too, of course.

[pampango]

13. "...President Barack Obama has asked his administration to create a new program."

"White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the trucking project was killed in the 2009 omnibus appropriations bill, but President Barack Obama has asked his administration to create a new program."

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=329737&CategoryId=14091

"Prior to Ruiz’s announcement, the White House said that President Barack Obama had ordered his administration to devise a new cross-border trucking program consistent with NAFTA and with the safety concerns expressed by U.S. legislators.

“The administration recognizes these concerns,” presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs said Monday at his daily briefing for reporters.

He also referred them to a statement issued by the White House when Obama recently signed the omnibus spending bill: “The President has tasked the Department of Transportation to work with the U.S. Trade Representative and the Department of State, along with leaders in Congress and Mexican officials, to propose legislation creating a new trucking project that will meet the legitimate concerns of Congress and our NAFTA commitments.”"

AFAIK, President Obama still wants to renegotiate NAFTA with Mexico and Canada, but he apparently does not want to unilaterally change parts of it until there is a renegotiation.