The overall plan as I understand it is to have a transportation corridor between Mexican ports and a processing facility in Kansas
What does this accomplish?
1. freight coming from Asia can bypass the ports of Seattle, San Francisco and Long Beach and go to Mexico instead – dock workers in the US make $140K because of their union – same job in Mexico will probably pay $12K to $25K? – European shippers will bypass the US ports on the East coast to gain the benefits available in Mexico
2. freight being trucked out of a Mexican port goes onto a Mexican truck with a Mexican driver vs US truck/driver – Mexican truck/driver don’t have to comply with US regs as CONCHO points out and the driver makes much less than US driver [the Mexican trucking companies will probably be able to declare bankruptcy and disappear if one of their trucks causes an accident inside the transportation corridor]
3. freight being transported via the new corridor is not subject to any existing US laws / import restrictions / import duties / trade tariffs / liability insurance for hazardous material / etc – [I’m reaching here but I can see TPTB doing a total end run around all existing US laws if it puts $$$ in their pockets]
Is this the country you want to leave to your kids?
