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Article: Where the action's at: the U.S.-Mexican border.
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- AgExporter
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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There is perhaps no better place to visualize the impact of NAFTA on trade than at our borders. Increasingly long lines of tractor trailers stretching on both sides for miles make it clear that trade among NAFTA partners is significant - and growing.
Thanks to this trade, the U.S.-Mexican border area is actually the fastest growing economic region in North America, where many cities on both sides of the border are experiencing double-digit economic growth.
A number of factors contribute to this growth, but one plays an undeniably major role in this unprecedented prosperity: NAFTA.
The U.S.-Mexican border region, which extends about 2,100 miles, ...