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A 5 page paper discussing the ongoing dispute over allowing Mexican trucks to deliver goods produced in Mexico but shipped to the US for sales and marketing. The US trucking industry is one that has many constraints placed on it. It is relatively stable as long as it remains in equilibrium, for all competitors must operated under the same rules. Allowing Mexican trucks to freely roam the highways of the US can have the effect of upsetting the entire industry. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KStruckNAFTA.rtf
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Brother Dave Gardner, a Southern comedian popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s, said in one of his routines that he was certain he
knew why people choose to live in the North. With so much talk of moving South after retirement, Brother Dave concluded that the Northeast remains so densely populated because
people have jobs up there. This is also a reason that the US continues to battle illegal immigration from the South, and in
a different manner serves as one of the reasons that US truckers are so vehemently opposed to goods produced in Mexico under NAFTA being transported to the US and delivered
by Mexican trucking companies. The Central Argument The North American Free Trade Agreement went into
effect in 1994, and the agreement at the time was that Mexican truckers were to be allowed to transport to and deliver goods in the US border states by 1995,
and "throughout the United States by 2000" (Sheets, 2001; p. 48). Many labor unions cried foul long and loudly over the basic premises of NAFTA, claiming that it would
cost thousands of US jobs. None of those unions has been as successful as the Teamsters, however (No truck with free trade; NAFTA, 2001). Claiming that Mexican trucks
and truckers do not need to meet the same restrictions that US truckers do, the Teamsters and other opponents to NAFTA in general claim that Mexican truckers are unsafe.
It is rather common for Democrat politicians to side with labor unions. The relationship has been in place literally for generations. This
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