Globalization: Editorial: U.S.-Mexico truck deal would benefit Texas companies

A Texas paper weighs in on the NAFTA Mexican truck deal.

Editorial: U.S.-Mexico truck deal would benefit Texas companies | Dallas Morning News Editorials: "The ink isn’t dry yet, but we’re pleased the Obama administration has worked out a tentative deal with Mexico to allow Mexican trucks to deliver goods into the U.S.

Since 1994, when the nations approved the North American Free Trade Agreement, the role of Mexican trucks has been a sticking point. Organized labor has long objected to them coming into the U.S, making it impossible to resolve the transportation issue. The impasse ultimately led Mexico to use NAFTA’s fine points to slap tariffs on $2.4 billion of U.S. goods shipped south.

That the two countries are nearing a final deal has to be good news to the construction companies, pork producers, fruit and vegetable growers and other businesses socked with the sanctions. Those tariffs will go once the deal is done. ...

Soon to end is the time-consuming, costly method of shipping goods across the border. Today, most Mexican goods get shipped to the border, then stored until brokers get them across, where a different truck picks them up. The cumbersome process obviously adds to the cost of moving goods, where a more efficient system could move goods more quickly and cheaply."