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Mexican manufacturing on the move.
Explosive growth in Mexican industry and diminishing trade barriers represent both an opportunity and a threat for US manufacturers.
A former resident of Tucson, AZ, home on vacation recently for the first time in several years, saw one major change he hadn't expected. Driving around town sightseeing, he was surprised to have to wait for a freight train at a crossing he never even slowed down at before. This time he was held up 15 minutes by a long train of open rail cars loaded with new automobiles heading north out of Mexico. Mentioning the incident later to friends, he learned there are several trainloads like it every day. In his earlier Arizona days, the big traffic from Mexico was in leather goods, pottery, tequi...See the full content of this document
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