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The United States and Mexico reached an apparent breakthrough this month on the long running dispute over cross-border trucking that has hurt some U.S. exporters. Under the solution proposed jointly, Mexican trucks will once again be allowed to complete deliveries to destinations throughout the United States, and as a result Mexico will remove retaliatory import duties on an array of U.S. products in place since 2009. Once the proposed solution is formally published, it will be subject to a 45-day comment period before it can be signed into effect by the two countries. It’s hard to tell at this juncture exactly when that will be, but if an agreement can be signed sometime in June or July, the punitive Mexican duties will be removed this summer and free trade in the affected products can resume. In our opinion it will be none too soon, as U.S. agricultural exporters already have been punished enough by the Obama administration’s pandering to the Teamsters union.
