Mexico-US Border Wars
Trouble on the border.
Mexico, angered by Washington's move to block Mexican trucks from
using U.S. highways, said it would raise tariffs on 90 American
agricultural and manufactured products, about $2.4 billion worth of
exports.
Last week, the U.S. Congress canceled funding for a test program that allowed Mexican long-haul trucks into the United States.
State Department Spokesman Robert Wood
SOUNDBITE: State Department Spokesman Robert Wood, saying, (English):
"I am hoping that there will not be a significant impact on
American business. We just have to try to work this work with the
Mexican government because really it is of great concerns not just to
business but other Americans."
The dispute comes amid news that US President Barack Obama will make Mexico his first trip to Latin America.
Obama will head to Mexico for meetings on April 16-17.
The high-level meetings come as the Obama Administration is
drafting an integrated plan to address Mexico's escalating war with
drug traffickers, blamed for some 6,000 murders last year most of them
near the shared border.
Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters
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