Mexico stops rotating tariffs on US truck dispute

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By CARLOS RODRIGUEZ

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico will maintain punitive tariffs on 99 U.S. products but will not add any more goods or change the list pending negotiations over a new program to allow Mexican cargo trucks on U.S. roads, the government announced Monday.

Economy Secretary Bruno Ferrari said the move is a show of goodwill as the two countries begin discussing an initiative the U.S. presented last week to lift a U.S. ban on Mexican trucks.

"As of this moment we stop that rotating process" - the expansion of the taxed list and the periodic changing of goods subject to the punitive tariffs, Ferrari said after a meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk.

The Mexican government has protested the U.S. ban on Mexican trucks as a violation of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement.

Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20110111/D9KLRPO81.html

[quakerboy]

1. Didn't we have

a bit of a knock down drag out over just this, really doing our bit to stop Bush from opening roads to mexican trucks?

[Lasher]

3. Yes we did.

Obama said he would re-negotiate NAFTA. But this isn't what I imagined it would look like.

Edit to furnish link to prior discussion: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2743628

[JDPriestly]

2. We don't want Mexican trucks on California roads. At least I don't.