Mike
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The book is closed on a three-year cross-border trucking pilot project with Mexico but the debate over the project and its findings is far from finished. The question hanging over the increasingly busy U.S.-Mexican border is what steps the U.S. will take next to meet its North American Free Trade Agreement obligations and avoid a renewed economic conflict with its second-largest trading partner.
Federal regulators will meet with a trucking industry advisory committee Oct. 28 in Alexandria, Virginia, to discuss the results of the pilot project, which began in 2011 and ended Oct. 10. The pilot replaced an earlier Bush-era test program shut down in 2009 and led to the lifting of more than $2.4 billion in punitive tariffs Mexico imposed on U.S. goods.
However, the pilot project attracted very few Mexican carriers. For now, the tractor-trailers operated by the 13 Mexican trucking companies that participated in the program will continue to roll across the border and operate within the U.S. beyond the border commercial zone, as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration decides whether to grant the carriers permanent U.S. authority.
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Federal regulators will meet with a trucking industry advisory committee Oct. 28 in Alexandria, Virginia, to discuss the results of the pilot project, which began in 2011 and ended Oct. 10. The pilot replaced an earlier Bush-era test program shut down in 2009 and led to the lifting of more than $2.4 billion in punitive tariffs Mexico imposed on U.S. goods.
However, the pilot project attracted very few Mexican carriers. For now, the tractor-trailers operated by the 13 Mexican trucking companies that participated in the program will continue to roll across the border and operate within the U.S. beyond the border commercial zone, as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration decides whether to grant the carriers permanent U.S. authority.
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