Leading Trade Experts Side with Mexico

Kevin Binversie / March 27, 2009

Heritage Fellow James E. Roberts has been one of the earliest and most vocal trade experts urging the reinstatement and expansion of the Mexico Trucking program.  The pilot program, intended to ensure American compliance with the North American Free Trade Agreement, was recently ended by Congress and President Obama because of the poison pill provision slipped into the Omnibus Spending bill.  As a result of this action, the government of Mexico retaliated by placing tariffs on nearly 90 U.S. products worth an estimated $2.4 billion.

Yesterday, at an international trade symposium in Miami, many other experts in the field joined Roberts in saying a return of the program was necessary and Mexico was in the right to retaliate. (more…)