International Trade

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Juan Carlos Llorca wrote for The Associated Press 28 May 2014:
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A sprawling, $400 million railroad hub opened Wednesday in southern New Mexico with the promise of transforming the border area into an international industrial trade zone. The hub is one of the largest of its kind in the U.S. and is expected to spur development on both sides of the border with Mexico. Tax breaks and other factors have prompted more than 50 companies to move to the area in recent years. Because the area has been designated a foreign trade zone, freight from overseas can be loaded directly onto trains from West Coast ports for processing and shipment to Mexican factories and for distribution by rail across the U.S.

Known as the Santa Teresa Intermodal Ramp, the hub can handle up to 225,000 containers a year and is poised to beat the initial estimate of 150,000 units in its first year, Union Pacific CEO Jack Koraleski told the crowd of railroad and government officials and business people at the grand opening.
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Super Highway

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Juan Carlos Llorca wrote for The Associated Press 28 May 2014:
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A sprawling, $400 million railroad hub opened Wednesday in southern New Mexico with the promise of transforming the border area into an international industrial trade zone. The hub is one of the largest of its kind in the U.S. and is expected to spur development on both sides of the border with Mexico. Tax breaks and other factors have prompted more than 50 companies to move to the area in recent years. Because the area has been designated a foreign trade zone, freight from overseas can be loaded directly onto trains from West Coast ports for processing and shipment to Mexican factories and for distribution by rail across the U.S.

Known as the Santa Teresa Intermodal Ramp, the hub can handle up to 225,000 containers a year and is poised to beat the initial estimate of 150,000 units in its first year, Union Pacific CEO Jack Koraleski told the crowd of railroad and government officials and business people at the grand opening.
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The area will also be designated a foreign labor zone, whites will find the manual labor too demeaning but Mexicans will jump at the work opportunities. After the unions take control of the labor force and the Mexicans are shuffled out, it'll be no different than any of the other incoming freight facilities.

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[A sprawling, $400 million railroad hub opened Wednesday in southern New Mexico with the promise of transforming the border area into an international industrial trade zone.

Wikipedia: [url=tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_trade_zones_of_the_United_States]Foreign trade zones of the United States[/url]

These have been around since the 1930s. There are over 230 Foreign-Trade Zone projects in the US. But the conspiracy theorists finally just noticed them.

It's a way to keep the jobs associated with international trade in the US.

Super Highway

Officially, the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) mega-highway was about increased NAFTA trade.

Unofficially it had nothing to do with NAFTA. It was about bringing in cheap goods from China even cheaper, by bypassing unionized American ports. That's why the Mexican stretch ended at a new port.

But really, it was about looting the state treasury on an epic scale to build the thing. And then bypassing the treasury to loot Texas DIRECTLY on an epic scale, by snatching millions of acres through eminent domain. And chopping up the existing road system, forcing people and inter-state transport trucks onto the toll roads.

I'd commend Ron Paul for alerting people to it, but the next thing he did was wrap it in hyper-stupid wingnuttery, claiming that the Texas-only project went all the way to my home town of Winnipeg, Canada.

Rick Perry championed the project, but Ron Paul saved him by making it like a nutjob delusion.

By 2009 the TTC was scaled down to be essentially a regular highway. In 2010, official decision of "no action" was issued by the Federal Highway Administration, formally ending the project. The action eliminated the study area and canceled the agreement between TxDOT and developer Cintra Zachry.