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Article: Sonora, Mexico, Arizona, Area Suffers 12.3 Percent Drop in Trade, Study Shows.
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- AZ Daily Star
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- November 13, 2003
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Byline: David Wichner
Nov. 13--The Arizona-Sonora economic region's share of cross-border and global export trade slipped 12.3 percent in 2002, earning the area an F grade in a report released Wednesday.
At the same time, the region won high marks for integrating Arizona and Sonora into a unified economic region, growth in basic economic sectors, and improvements in quality of life on both sides of the border, according to the Arizona-Sonora Region Report Card by the University of Arizona Office of Economic Development.
The findings come 10 years after officials from Arizona and the bordering Mexican state of Sonora set out to create a unified, ...