The United States openly violated the NAFTA treaty last week. True, there's a mess of a gang war along Mexico's border with the United States, but closing the southern border to truck traffic (long a goal of unions in the United States) is a no-no under the terms of the treaty and Mexico has fired a return volley, smacking a number of U.S. exports with tariffs up to 45%. Ouch.
You'd think these people never heard of the Great Depression. Smoot-Hawley here we come!
Mexico Puts Tariffs on U.S. Goods in Truck Dispute [Bloomberg]
The tariff list (in the original Spanish)
Posted by guest , Mar 19, 2009 12:11PM
Change Change Change Change Change..... Oops!
Posted by guest , Mar 19, 2009 12:12PM
Mexican trucks are not maintained well and the drivers are usually drunk aholes without licenses. If a trucker gets in an accident they just abandon the rig and run.
Posted by guest , Mar 19, 2009 12:16PM
Coach K for President
Posted by guest , Mar 19, 2009 12:21PM
It's true--I tried to buy a guayabera today..no dice.
Posted by guest , Mar 19, 2009 12:34PM
Hey #2 read a little bit before spewing xenophobic comments. They cancelled a program that US certified the trucks/drivers for those concerns.
Posted by guest , Mar 19, 2009 12:42PM
GOd if I were a trucker in Mexico I'd be wasted 24/7
Posted by guest , Mar 19, 2009 12:48PM
who's gonna mow my lawn?
Posted by guest , Mar 19, 2009 12:50PM
@2 - Are you drunk?
Posted by guest , Mar 19, 2009 1:16PM
@8 He is just stupid.
Posted by guest , Mar 19, 2009 1:32PM
2 here
@5 just making a comment and my disdain is reasonable.
@8 maybe a little, Memphis is not doing well in my bracket.
@9 Not stupid just making a comment and you can go fuck yourself.
Posted by guest , Mar 19, 2009 1:44PM
I rely on that traffic to bring in my meth.
Posted by guest , Mar 19, 2009 2:20PM
Hey 2,
5 here
You are making 'a comment' with out bothering with the facts. Your 'disdain' is not 'reasonable' you are just an ignorant xenophobe.
Posted by guest , Mar 19, 2009 2:24PM
@5/12 Relax dude.
Posted by guest , Mar 19, 2009 2:34PM
so sorry
i guess the cool/zen thing to do would be to let xenophobia flourish unchallenged
I mean its sooo unhip to want to bring anyone down from a good 'beano' rage
Posted by guest , Mar 19, 2009 2:42PM
I think the US should put up a fence on the Mexican side of the border. Deport an illegals and allow only people (educated Europeans, Indians, Chinese, etc) with degrees to stay.
These illegals got mortgages and they behaved like a typical Latin American country - Default!
Posted by guest , Mar 19, 2009 3:53PM
Explain the link between Smoot Hawley and the GD. Cause and effect? Correlated only?
What the hell does that have to do with protecting our borders from illegal trafficking?
Posted by guest , Mar 19, 2009 4:37PM
16, explain the link between allowing legal and trained truckers to drive in the country as part of a trade agreement and protecting borders from illegal trafficking? It is not even cause and effect, it is meth and effect.
Posted by stimpy tec , Mar 19, 2009 10:38PM
And further south, LAFTA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAFTA