On July 6, Mexico said it would cut in half the duties on 99 U.S. products such as pork, apples and consumer care products when it signed a deal with the United States to allow Mexican truckers onto American roads.
"The plan is for the U.S. government to authorize the first permit in the trucking program for cross-border freight at the start of October," the ministry said in a statement.
If the United States did not follow through on its pledge, Mexico would not scrap the remaining duties, it added.
The original plan had been to allow trucking firms to cross from September, but procedural hold-ups meant that this would not be possible until October, the ministry said.
The United States agreed under the North American Free Trade Agreement, which went into force in 1994, to allow Mexican long-haul truckers to operate in the United States.
However, opponents in the U.S. Congress threw up repeated roadblocks to keep Mexican truckers off U.S. roads. (Reuters)
