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Record W3172441992

The Cross-Border NAFTA Truck Debate

2002· article· en· W3172441992 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Casey Burgess

Bibliographic record

VenueSMU Scholar (Southern Methodist University) · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicGlobal trade and economics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTruckInternational tradeInternational economicsPolitical scienceBusinessEconomicsEngineeringAutomotive engineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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In 1992, the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).' NAFTA became effective on January 1, 1994.2The overall affect of NAFTA has been positive.Cross-border trade between the United States and Mexico rose 113 percent between 1993 and 1998. 3 United States' exports to Mexico had grown to $111.35 billion by 2000.' NAFTA created 350,000 American jobs.'The agreement also helped spark much needed economic reform in Mexico. 6 NAFTA has become the world's most productive trade alliance, employing almost 400 million people who produce $10 trillion in products and services. 7The agreement has not reached its full potential, however, due to controversy over cross-border trucking. B. DIFFERENCES IN REGULATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICOTo illustrate the difference in the two nations' safety standards, the following list of infractions would earn an automatic out-of-service order in the United States, but would merely incur a ticket in Mexico, with a promise to fix the problem in twenty days: Non-existent log book. 54* Incompatible hazardous materials in the same shipment. 5* Bulk loads improperly secured or blocked. 56* Identifications or warnings do not match hazardous material being hauled. 57* Missing more than 25 percent of anchoring components."* Using tanks that were not designed or authorized to transport the products being shipped. 59* Material that is leaking from a transport tank. 60 Failing to carry appropriate emergency information. 6There are also a number of areas where an out-of-service order would be very likely in the United States, but where Mexico would still only issue a ticket with a promise to fix the problem in twenty days.Examples include: * Missing or inoperable break lights.* Worn or exposed wiring.* No windshield wipers or spray jets.* A shattered or missing windshield.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.983
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.006

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.059
GPT teacher head0.260
Teacher spread0.201 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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