Tax Issues Could Be Nafta Barrier

Mexican trucks will not be rolling into the United States anytime soon, contrary to what recent news reports may have suggested, an expert on the North American Free Trade Agreement said.

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The Nafta arbitration panel’s Nov. 29 ruling that it was improper for the United States to refuse to open its southwest border to Mexican trucks was “nothing more than a political decision,” said James R. Giermanski, director of the International Business Studies program at Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, N.C. (12-4, p. 1).

Perhaps the biggest unresolved issue concerns Mexican payment of personal income tax to the U.S. government.

Tax issues “fell through the cracks of Nafta,” Giermanski said.

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