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US to allow Mexican trucks in with screening
Associated Press ^ | Jan 9, 2015 7:37 PM EST

Posted on 01/09/2015 5:55:04 PM PST by Olog-hai

The U.S. Department of Transportation says it will soon allow Mexican trucking firms to apply for authorization to make long-haul cross-border runs, potentially ending a longstanding dispute.

It says it expects the move to permanently end Mexico’s on-again, off-again retaliatory tariffs on $2 billion in U.S. imports. […]

The opening is a long-delayed provision of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. …

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: crossborder; nafta; tariffs; usdot
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1 posted on 01/09/2015 5:55:04 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
The opening is a long-delayed provision of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement

We were repeatedly warned about this and all the other big g sellouts. But ya gotta love the names of these agreements/laws they come up with...Like immigration "reform". "Patriot" Act...on and on.

2 posted on 01/09/2015 6:03:37 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Olog-hai

WAR ON TERROR = PURE ARTIFICE...!!

Lots of talk and funding, sure..!

IT IS ALL A LIE..!


3 posted on 01/09/2015 6:09:06 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Olog-hai

This is crap! They darn well better have to conform to every single DOT and EPA regulation domestic trucks do.


4 posted on 01/09/2015 6:09:14 PM PST by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: dragnet2

First the US issues terror warning travels, and then they open the borders to Mexican truckers.

The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.


5 posted on 01/09/2015 6:09:17 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: Olog-hai

What could possibly go wrong?


6 posted on 01/09/2015 6:10:26 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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To: Olog-hai

Do we need a War on Terror? YES..!

Do we have one NOW? No..!

I think in world history it’s almost unprecedented for a country to be devoting so much MOUTH-share to this concept while being completely powerless to stop an invasion by CHILDREN.

For those two things to exist side-by-side is ABSURD.

Let’s rewind the clocks:

East Germany says they have airtight security, but a few phone calls shows an entire generation of screaming, diseased Guatemalans have taken up residence there:

Would you take ANYTHING East Germany said seriously, after that?

Our enemies will not either.


7 posted on 01/09/2015 6:13:03 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Olog-hai

Nothing good is going to come from this.


8 posted on 01/09/2015 6:13:41 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Olog-hai
How is it, our college educated negotiators always give away the farm, and yet still come out on the losing end every time we sit down to negotiate with some uneducated cabbage picker from south of the border????

To answer my own question, I suspect our Ultra Liberal "negotiators" go into these negotiations not with an attitude of protecting the American citizens and taxpayers, but with a generous bleeding heart position willing to give away far more than they expect to get. Instead of realizing that we have the upper hand, and we don't have to give an inch, it's known our side is represented by a bunch of wussies and fools, and it's the Mexicans who drive the hard bargain. For every unskilled Mexican driver on the road, an American life is in jeopardy. As usual, we're being sold out by our own government!

9 posted on 01/09/2015 6:15:54 PM PST by holyscroller ( Without God, America is one nation under)
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To: Uncle Miltie

obies going to re hire retired TSA personnel.....to do these inspections...


10 posted on 01/09/2015 6:17:19 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: gaijin

No, no, it’s “overseas contingency operation” and “war of necessity” . . . oh, my bad; that’s so 2009.


11 posted on 01/09/2015 6:24:55 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
permanently end Mexico’s on-again, off-again retaliatory tariffs on $2 billion in U.S. imports.

Of course it had to be that NAFTA was a one-way street...

/s

12 posted on 01/09/2015 6:28:19 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: gaijin
Do we need a War on Terror? YES..!

I'm going to disagree — we do not need a war on some abstract concept that can be changed at the whims of those in power.
Such a war is inherently unwinnable: because there is no clear goal, there is no clear victory condition, because there is no clear victory condition the goal may be moved and altered at-will.

(Look at how they've floated the idea tea-party = terrorist out there; they want the War on Terror so that they can define their political enemies as terrorists.)

13 posted on 01/09/2015 6:30:35 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: holyscroller

“For every unskilled Mexican driver on the road, an American life is in jeopardy”
_________________________________________________________

This needs to be repeated over and over. I’ve been wondering when this was going to happen and kept hoping that somehow wisdom would prevail. Semis with bald tires, worn out brakes and tired drivers terrify me, and they will be on the road with us.


14 posted on 01/09/2015 6:32:33 PM PST by NorthstarMom
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To: NorthstarMom

Don’t worry. This will probably never happen to you.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=954_1378470863


15 posted on 01/09/2015 6:57:47 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: lavaroise

They know what they’re doing...Part of the world order plan...Destroy sovereignty, borders, flood the country with tens of millions of foreigners, on and on. Divide the united. Bring in our replacements.


16 posted on 01/09/2015 6:59:07 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Olog-hai

What could possibly go wrong?


17 posted on 01/09/2015 6:59:38 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai

Hey America! Bend over!! - Love, Barack.


18 posted on 01/09/2015 7:01:39 PM PST by VeniVidiVici ( Better a conservative teabagger than a liberal teabagee)
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To: gaijin

Wot in thee HAIL can / do we get from MEXICO ??!!??


19 posted on 01/09/2015 7:02:31 PM PST by knarf
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To: Uncle Miltie

I wonder how many immigrants they can stuff in a 53 ft. van?

It will be a lot more efficient than the current 15 passenger vans.


20 posted on 01/09/2015 7:04:15 PM PST by alpo
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