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Almost 75% of the $100 billion in U.S. trade with Mexico is delivered by truck, and most of that cargo travels through Texas. The major route is Interstate 35, running north-south through several of the state's major cities--San Antonio, Austin and Dallas-Forth Worth. Specialized trucking firms called drayage companies haul goods in a narrow strip of U.S. territory along the border, where they exchange cargoes for transshipment to border plants or destinations deeper in America. The majority of trucks are Mexican because U.S. companies, afraid of theft and corruption, are reluctant to send their trucks into...
...trucks will have access to Mexico's northern highways. It's an aspect of NAFTA that is prompting second thoughts. Pro-NAFTA Texas Attorney General Dan Morales warns that unless the Federal Government takes action, there will be danger of a spill occurring in a metropolitan area: "This deadly cargo, carried under such conditions, is nothing short of a time bomb...
...have to inspect insurance, driver's licenses and immigration papers and look for narcotics and violations of trade-compliance laws. Checking a vehicle for faulty brakes or bald tires is way down the list and not necessarily a customs agent's responsibility, according to chief inspector David Higgerson, the cargo director for U.S. Customs in southern Texas...
...Yeltsin's illness, the leaders of Bosnia's warring parties prepared for the U.S.-sponsored talks set for this week in Dayton, Ohio. One hopeful sign: the first civilian convoy to reach Sarajevo since the Bosnian war began in 1992 traveled through Serb-held territory with a welcome cargo of flour and cement. A less hopeful sign: in Croatia, President Franjo Tudjman said that if the final slice of Croatian territory held by Bosnian Serbs is not relinquished through negotiation by the end of November, the Croatian army will move to retake it by force...
...This will help us in our battle against congestion, pollution, noise and the transport of unmarked hazardous cargo on Cambridge streets," Duehay said in the release, "Greater understanding of the origins and destination of the trucks will put the City in a position to improve the quality of our life...