After losses greater than 60 million dollars, this weekend binational trade between Mexico and the United States was normalized through an agreement to release the security reviews carried out by the Texas government, in exchange for greater control of migrants.
The president of the Confederation of Industrial Chambers (Concamin), José Abugaber, said that the agreement allows industrialists to continue promoting the development and well-being of the economic region of North America.
After the governors of Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, Nuevo León and Coahuila negotiated with the Texas government to eliminate exhaustive inspections of cargo trucks from Mexico to the United States, as a measure to curb migration, the productive sector recalled that the process It took eight days, which caused some losses and collapses to the industry.
The National Council of the Maquiladora and Export Manufacturing Industry (Index) considered positive the normalization of truck transport services on the border between Mexico and the United States with a commitment to greater security in the Mexican border states with Texas.
Antecedent
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced last week that all commercial flows from Mexico would be subject to inspection by state officials after passing through a federal inspection at the ports of entry, for immigration containment purposes.
The tightening of these safety inspections impacts the industry, the logistics chains and the movement of fresh products from Mexico to the United States, in addition to generating operating cost overruns in the region with losses of up to 8 million dollars a day, which has repercussions directly on consumers, as well as on the productivity and competitiveness of the region.
The Business Coordinating Council, Concamin, the National Chamber of Freight Transport, the National Association of Private Transport and Index warned of the situation at the Zaragoza-Ysleta, Córdova-De las Américas, Colombia-Laredo and Reynosa-Pharr border crossings, since that only in the latter dispatched up to 3,000 trucks per day, for an approximate of 18,000 units per week, and with the revisions it was reduced between 500 and 700 trucks per day.
Given the concern of the productive sector, the governor of Texas repealed on Friday the order to inspect cargo trucks that obstructed the transit of commercial vehicles on the border between the United States and Mexico.
The Republican governor dropped his rules requiring all commercial trucks coming from Mexico to undergo additional inspections for the express purpose of stemming the flow of migrants and drugs, a move that sharpened his dispute with the administration of President Joe Biden over the immigration policy.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki, in a statement issued in a press release, indicated that delays in truck crossings at the border with Mexico were leading to an increase in the prices of products in the United States.
Meanwhile, the governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, maintained that “we must renew our efforts to continue working together, Texas and Tamaulipas. Immigration is a federal matter, but we will always offer help to do what we have to do. We not only have 9 miles of border and only one crossing like our neighbor to the west. We have more than 230 miles of border with 18 international crossings; we are talking about 50% of trade between Mexico and the United States occurring between Tamaulipas and Texas”.
