According to a recent report by Bloomberg, American negotiators are advocating to remove Mexican long-haul trucks from the NAFTA Chapter on cross-border services. Under the current NAFTA agreement, the U.S. has long been restricting trade over the Mexican border. The 1994 protocol provision opened up the United States to Mexican long-haul truck transportation, which was subsequently delayed through the resistance of trucking and environmental lobbyists, essentially restricting Mexican trucks to operating only in U.S. border regions.
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