Mexican Official Calls U.S. Rules 'Discriminatory,' Advises Retaliation

img src="/sites/default/files/images/articles/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>Mexico's transportation secretary said if the United States does not remove what he called discriminatory conditions for allowing Mexican trucks into the country, Mexico should ban U.S. trucks in retaliation.

The U.S. decision to lift its ban on Mexican trucks contained "discriminatory elements," said Secretary of Communications and Transports Pedro Cerisola in a Dec. 10 letter to Economy Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez, according to the Mexico City newspaper El Universal.

The newspaper quoted sources close to Cerisola who said that since the U.S. rules are not equitable, Mexico does not have to allow American trucks into the country.