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Organizations Want Movement on Mexican Truck Issue
Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:12:25 CDTMexico last month added pork to the list of U.S. products against which it is retaliating for the failure of the United States to live up to its obligations under the North American Free Trade Agreement on the trucking issue. Mexico put a 5 percent tariff on most U.S. pork imports. The National Pork Producers Council and 36 state pork producer organizations are urging President Obama to work with Congress and the Mexican government to resolve the dispute.
In their letter to the President, the organizations wrote - the tariff applied to pork will have the effect of placing our products at a price disadvantage vis a vis pork produced in Mexico and imports from Canada and Chile. Those two nations continue to benefit from zero tariffs in Mexico under their own free trade agreements.
The pork groups pointed out that since 1993 – the year before NAFTA was implemented – U.S. agricultural exports to Mexico have increased by 257 percent, with pork exports growing by 580 percent. Mexico is the second largest market for the U.S. pork industry, which shipped 762-million dollars of pork south of the border in 2009.
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