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000332783 041__ $$aeng
000332783 245__ $$aBorder Crossing for Trucks Twenty Three Years after NAFTA
000332783 260__ $$c2016
000332783 269__ $$a2016
000332783 336__ $$aConference Paper/ Presentation
000332783 500__ $$aPresented at the 19th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Washington DC, USA
000332783 520__ $$aDespite the liberalization achieved by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and substantial investments in infrastructure, technology, and equipment, significant barriers to efficient truck transport remain between the United States and Mexico.  We present the practical and economic implications of changes to the NAFTA border crossing system put in place after the terrorist events of September 11, 2001.  Security measures have “thickened” NAFTA’s borders, increasing costs and delays associated with border crossings. These measures have a global impact on the logistics chain, since they are applied to all countries that source goods to the United States.  We review literature on costs and impacts of border delays due to enhanced security and build on our earlier research on these institutional peculiarities and their impacts of the US-Canada- Mexico border crossing system.   We discuss procedures used today and note changes to border processing since our earlier work. Based on interviews and review of the literature, we present the institutional context in which barriers exist and border authorities’ rationale for establishing new barriers or continuing of pre-existing ones.  Based on this information and the time and costs associated with cross-border freight movements, we estimate the welfare effect of these measures on the NAFTA economies in a CGE framework.  Our counterfactual assumes the implementation of a “seamless freight flow” system similar to Europe’s Transport International Routier (TIR) system, and calculates the time and cost differentials between such a system and the status quo.  We estimate net annual welfare gains for the NAFTA countries accruing from the streamlining of the U.S.-Mexican brokerage system and find that NAFTA-wide annual welfare could rise by $7.5 billion. Extending the simulation to include streamlining intra-NAFTA security-related delays could add an additional $14.7–28.6 billion to annual welfare across the region.
000332783 546__ $$aEnglish
000332783 650__ $$aInternational Relations/Trade
000332783 6531_ $$aNon-Tariff barriers
000332783 6531_ $$aNon-Tariff measures in services
000332783 6531_ $$aNorth America
000332783 700__ $$aFox, Alan
000332783 700__ $$aLondono-Kent, Pilar
000332783 773__ $$j2016
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