• 19 Mar 2009 at 11:57 AM

NAFTA SCHMAFTA

By Equity Private

final_mexico.jpgThe 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)

Comments (18)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 12:11 PM

    Change Change Change Change Change….. Oops!

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 12:12 PM

    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.

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 12:16 PM

    Coach K for President

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 12:21 PM

    It’s true–I tried to buy a guayabera today..no dice.

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 12:34 PM

    Hey #2 read a little bit before spewing xenophobic comments. They cancelled a program that US certified the trucks/drivers for those concerns.

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 12:42 PM

    GOd if I were a trucker in Mexico I’d be wasted 24/7

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM

    who’s gonna mow my lawn?

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 12:50 PM

    @2 – Are you drunk?

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 1:16 PM

    @8 He is just stupid.

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 1:32 PM

    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.

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 1:44 PM

    I rely on that traffic to bring in my meth.

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 2:20 PM

    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.

  13. 13
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 2:24 PM

    @5/12 Relax dude.

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 2:34 PM

    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

  15. 15
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 2:42 PM

    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!

  16. 16
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 3:53 PM

    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?

  17. 17
    Posted by guest | March 19, 2009 at 4:37 PM

    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.

  18. 18
    Posted by stimpy tec | March 19, 2009 at 10:38 PM

    And further south, LAFTA
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAFTA

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