Monterey, NL. The national president of the National Council of the Maquiladora and Export Manufacturing Industry (Index)Luis Hernández reported that the tightening of inspections at border crossings with Texas has led to blockades of Mexican carriers at the main international bridges, with a decrease of up to 70% of operations.
“The blockades have caused a critical impact for this export industry and the corporations located in the United States. For example, in the case of Reynosa, there are losses of 112 million 980,830.93 dollarsfor shipments that have not been able to cross today on the Reynosa-Pharr and Anzaldúas bridges”.
“Some of the sanctions that companies must face for failure to deliver with corporations are: million-dollar fines for breach of contract, stoppage of production lines due to lack of supplies, kilometers of lines of trucks waiting their turn to cross, threats of demonstrations and possible blockades that affect the attraction of investment from the different regions in which this situation occurs”, emphasized the national leader of Index.
It is worth mentioning that an interview was requested with the leaders of Index, Nuevo Leon and Matamorosand shared this statement.
The leader indicated in the statement that with the objective of maintaining the bilateral flow of trade in customs on the Mexico border with the United States, the Index Council, in team with the Index associations of Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Piedras Negras and Nuevo León, is having approaches with the National Customs Agency, the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of the United States.
Just as with the governors of the states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas to maintain the bilateral flow of trade.
He recalled that on April 6, the Governor of Texas, Gregory W. Abbott, issued a statement related to the inspection of commercial vehicles by the Texas Department of Public Safety, which caused, as of Thursday, April 7, severe effects on commercial crossings at border crossings, adjacent to Texas.
The most affected bridges are those located in Ciudad Juárez, Puente Colombia, in Nuevo León and the Reynosa-Pharr and Anzaldúas international bridge, as well as that of Piedras Negras and there are threats of blockades in the case of Matamoros for Puente de los Tomates e Indios .