The Mexican government, while maintaining a threat of trade sanctions against the United States, didn’t officially react last week to the recent vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to bar Mexican trucks from the nation’s highways. But a Mexican trucking group is asking that U.S. trucks be barred from Mexico in retaliation.
Mexico’s chief trade negotiator, Luis Ernesto Derbez, who is also the minister of economics, wouldn’t comment on a request by Canacar, the most influential Mexican trucking association, not to extend reciprocal operating rights to U.S.-based trucking companies, as called for by the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Manuel Gomez Garcia, the newly elected president of Canacar, which represents 4,000 companies and 32,000 owner-operators in Mexico, said, “If the U.S. won’t open its border, Mexico should keep its borders closed [to U.S. carriers], also. That’s our official posture.”
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