Exporters in Mexico face queues of up to eight hours to cross the border with the United States, after the activation of security protocols and inspection of documentation in the Mexican city of Tijuana on Friday, in response to measures by US President Donald Trump.
Up to eight hours to cross the border
These protocols were carried out exclusively in the export lane where heavy cargo transport transits, at the Otay border port, generating long queues of up to 38 kilometers and traffic chaos in the surrounding areas.
Security agreements between Mexico and the US
Israel Delgado Vallejo, vice president of the National Chamber of Cargo Transportation (Canacar) in the northwest region of Mexico, explained that these actions have to do with the security agreements on the border between Mexico and the US.
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“It is a protocol that is carried out with little advance notice and that is combined with the updating of the exporters’ documentation and the maintenance of the computer system, which has generated all this chaos,” he told the media.
Delgado explained that, in addition to the exhaustive review measures, Anam implemented a new Digital Document Repository (Repadi) in the Single Window for Foreign Trade (Vuce), to deal with contingencies at the border.
He said that generally at this window at the time of crossing all the importers’ documents were presented physically, but now what is proposed is a digitalization so that there is no loss of information.
Source: eluniversal
