TRANSPORTATION LAW AND PRACTICE IN NORTH AMERICA. SECOND EDITION

This study was originally conducted for the Federal Highway Administration under the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. Subsequently, drastic changes in both United States and Mexican transportation law took place in 1993, 1994, and 1995. This second edition is intended to update the law in those areas and to include new information gathered by the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade. This new information was gathered primarily through a series of meetings conducted by the Law Center's North American Committee on Surface Transportation Law and Practice (NACST). This Committee is comprised of transportation attorneys and professionals from the three North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) countries. The primary purpose of this study is to educate the transportation attorneys and practitioners in international transborder transportation practices between the United States and Mexico and to identify some of the associated issues. Also, as a supplement unique to the second edition, Appendix F contains comparative charts of private international transportation treaties or conventions and the national law of each NAFTA country (originally prepared in Spanish by Rodrigo Chavez). In this edition, the focus is on the motor freight industry since the work of NACST was limited to motor transportation and it is estimated that 80% of the trade between the NAFTA countries is transported by truck. The references to multimodal and rail transportation are included because they are still important to many involved in transporting certain commodities. One of the most important additions to this edition is the English translation of the key Mexican transportation law and regulation.