Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has sent the White House recommendations aimed at ending a trucking dispute with Mexico, expected to be high on the agenda when President Obama visits Mexico later this week, Reuters reported.
LaHood has met with 23 members of Congress and business and labor groups in an effort to come up with a plan to again Mexican trucks U.S. access, Reuters said.
Mexico put tariffs on $2.4 billion worth of U.S. goods after Obama signed a Congressional spending bill that canceled a pilot program allowing Mexican long-haul trucks to operate in the United States, which had operated under a pilot program started by the Bush administration in 2007.
The United States committed in the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico to open its roads to Mexican trucks, but the Teamsters union, some members of Congress and other groups have fought that, saying Mexican trucks are unsafe, Reuters reported.
Last week a coalition of 140 other organizations including the National Pork Producers Council sent a letter to Obama urging him to quickly resolve the dispute.
