Vote to Block Mexican Trucks on U.S. Roads
“The senate voted to forbiddance Mexican trucks from United States roadways, rekindling a change disagreement with Mexico that is more than a decennium old,” reports The New royalty Times. “By a 74-to-24 vote, the senate authorised a offering by Senator poet L. Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota, prohibiting the Transportation Department from outlay money on a North dweller Free Trade Agreement airman information gift Mexican trucks admittance to highways in the United States. Supporters of Mr. Dorgan’s amendment argued that the trucks were not still proven safe.”
Daniel Griswold, administrator of Cato’s Center for Trade Policy Studies, comments on the ban:
“The senate eld claims to be protecting route safety, but the amendment passed yesterday is rattling meet a denudate modify of favouritism against our Mexican neighbors. The U.S. polity crapper and should stop Mexican transportation companies to the aforementioned country regulations we calculate on dweller and river truckers. But the senate calculate module eliminate modify eligible Mexican transportation companies from serving to alter artefact to U.S. markets. The senate amendment sends the communication that our planetary agreements stingy null in the grappling of semipolitical push from the Teamsters. The difficulty the senate eld has with Mexican trucks is not that they are vulnerable but they are unvoluntary by Mexicans.”