1.  What is NAFTA?

2.  List the reasons various leaders/groups are opposed to the provision under NAFTA that allows Mexican trucks to enter the U.S. to make deliveries.

3.  List the reasons supporters give for saying cross-border deliveries allowed under the NAFTA agreement should begin.

4.  a) What percent of goods sold between the U.S. and Mexico are transported by land?
b)  Until the NAFTA cross-border delivery provision took effect, how did Mexican companies get their goods to their U.S. customers?  (NOTE: The article provides no information about how U.S. companies get their products to their Mexican customers.)

5.  When the U.S. cancelled a pilot program in 2009 to allow cross-border deliveries, what did the Mexican government do in response?

6.  How will the U.S. Department of Transportation assure the safety and reliability of the Mexican trucks/drivers coming into the U.S.?

7.  Although they will now be permitted to do so, why does Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa say U.S. truckers don't want to deliver into Mexico?

8.  a) Supporters say cross-border deliveries will save U.S. companies 15%.  However, the article does not provide information on the cost to taxpayers for a government department dedicated to monitoring and maintaining the Mexican trucking companies and drivers.  Do you think this program will save U.S. taxpayers money in the long-run?
b)  Mexican trucking company manager Guillermo Perez says that his company has a random drug testing policy for its drivers.  Should the U.S. rely on Mexican companies to test and assure the safety of their drivers?  Should their drivers be required to obtain a U.S. truck drivers license, or otherwise prove they know all of our traffic safety regulations and laws?  Explain your answer.

9.  Do you support or oppose the idea of cross-border deliveries (Mexico to U.S., and U.S. to Mexico)? Explain your answer.