

107-87)) In 2007, the Bush Administration again proposed a cross-border trucking pilot program, arguing that the preconditions and safety requirements under Section 350 had been met. (DOT and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002, Section 350 (Pub. Congress responded by passing language in the Fiscal Year 2002 Department of Transportation (DOT) appropriations bill that prohibited funds from going to the program until certain preconditions and safety requirements were met. Bush took steps to comply with the NAFTA tribunal ruling by announcing he would initiate the cross border trucking program. The Mexican government saw President Clinton’s refusal to implement the program as a violation of NAFTA, filed a complaint with the NAFTA tribunal, and won a favorable ruling. USA-MEX-98-2008-01 FMCSA Pilot Program on NAFTA Long-Haul Trucking Provisions) At that point, the Mexican trucks would have to transfer their load onto a U.S.-domiciled carrier. to a radius of 20- to 50-miles of the ports of entry.
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( NAFTA Secretariat) Although President Clinton signed NAFTA into law, he refused to implement the cross-border trucking provisions of the agreement with Mexico, thereby limiting Mexican tractor-trailer trucks entering the U.S. beyond the border zone, to begin in 1995.

( CNN, April 27, 2011) NAFTA originally authorized Mexican trucks to transport goods into the U.S.
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The cross-border trucking program with Mexico has been in dispute since the North American Free Trade Agreement was signed in 1994. ( DOT Press Release, July 6, 2011) The comment period on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) proposed regulations for a pilot program had closed in early May after receiving more than 2,000 comments. Last Thursday, Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Ray LaHood quietly signed a controversial cross-border trucking agreement in Mexico City with Mexico’s Secretary of Communications and Transportation. Administration Quietly Signs Cross-Border Trucking Agreement with Mexico
