Exporters in Mexico take up to eight hours to cross the US after Trump measures

Exporters in Mexico take up to eight hours to cross the US. They are facing delays of up to eight hours to cross the border with the United States, after the activation on Friday of security protocols and documentation inspection in the Mexican city of Tijuana, before the measures of the US president, Donald Trump.

Exporters in Mexico take up to eight hours to cross the US

These protocols were carried out exclusively in the export lane where heavy load transport travels, in the Otay border port, generated long lines of up to 38 kilometers and road chaos in the surrounding areas.

Israel Delgado Vallejo, vice president of the National Chamber of Cargo Autotransporte (Canacar) in the northwest region of Mexico, explained that these actions have to do with security agreements at the border between Mexico and the US.

“This is a protocol that is carried out with a short warning and that is combined with the update of exporters documentation and the maintenance of the computer system, which has generated all this chaos,” he told the media.

The border between Mexico and the US

Delgado explained that, coupled with the exhaustive review measures, the ANAM implemented a new repository of digital documents (REPADI) in the Single Foreign Trade Window (Vuce), to deal with contingencies on the border.

He said that generally in this window at the time of crossing, all the documents of the importers were physically presented, but now what is proposed is a digitalization so that there is no information losses.

“The process is going to be more efficient at a given time,” he said, but questioned that, with the measures carried out, there must have been “tests much earlier, because system failures are still being presented and this has complicated even more “traffic.

Chaos and the long lines of waiting

On the generated chaos and the long lines of waiting, Delgado foresaw that it will be temporary while the maintenance stage is performed, because it is a contingency stage, which is being analyzed with the ANAM to measure the impact that all this can cause on the border between Mexico and the US.

“Today we are in a month in which the production is typically still very low and this hopes that it does not have a fairly large impact for export. We hope that this contingency will be solved,” said Delgado.

Regarding the negotiations in this area between the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, and her American counterpart, Donald Trump, considered that if the tariffs of 25% were applied to all Mexican products, “the manufacturing industry would be affected and would come to Frank export dramatically. ”

He pointed out that they are in expectation, but also “confident of what can happen, because there is a great team of negotiators covering President Sheinbaum.”

“The Mexican industry we are pending, although we have this situation, we celebrate that time has been won because this is a respite to react in the agreements on the border between Mexico and the US,” said Delgado.