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Border Trade - USA - New Kansas City customs port may expedite trade with Mexico
Region hopes to capitalize on growing cross-border trade
KANSAS CITY, Mo.,USA -Alameda Times-Star (CA)/Associated Press, by Garance Burke -Nov 2005: -- Shipping American cars and electronics to Mexico may become much cheaper and faster early next year when the first Mexican customs facility in the United States is expected to open in the heart of the Midwest... It may be nearly 1,000 miles to the border from Kansas City, but this industrial hub will soon start building an inland port that would whisk thousands of trucks through export inspections and shoot them back out onto the North American Free Trade Agreement corridor, where they can roll through the border without further delays... The $3 million facility, which would be the first foreign customs office inside the United States, will likely be approved by the U.S. and Mexican governments by year's end and is scheduled to open next May, said Chris Gutierrez, president of Kansas City SmartPort Inc., a nonprofit organization promoting the project...
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