Internet Resources

Border Information & Solutions Network
Border Information & Solutions Network (BISN) is dedicated to promoting sustainable development of the US/Mexico border by enhancing collaboration and communication through the Internet. BISN is a binational, regional NGO headquartered in Brownsville, Texas.

Bordering the Future: "The Border Report" by John Sharp, Texas Comptroller
Bordering the Future offers a blueprint and an agenda for building on the many efforts already underway to lift the Texas-Mexico border region out of the poverty and neglect it has too often suffered. This report will present a viable agenda behind which lawmakers can unite in the upcoming legislative session.

Border Trade Institute
BTI is a part of the College of Business Administration and Graduate School of International Trade and Business Administration at Texas A&M International University. The Border Trade Institute (BTI) tracks the flow of U.S.-Mexico goods(5-digit SITC code) by U.S. Customs border ports, on a monthly basis. The BTI develops the TOP 25 list of products imported and exports by port. The BTI also provides, upon request, comparative information on U.S.-Mexico imports and exports back to 1986, the year of Mexico's accession of GATT.

CRC--U.S.-Mexico Conflict Resolution Center, NMSU
The U.S.-Mexico Conflict Resolution Center (CRC) is a non-profit organization at New Mexico State University (NMSU) whose mission is to provide education, training and services in the area of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) for entities engaged in private commercial trade between the U.S. and México. The page contains information on the CRC's presentations, semniars, and programs for businesses operating in the new NAFTA environment.

Del Rio Chamber of Commerce (Del Rio, Texas)
Information site by the Chamber of Commerce of the border city, Del Rio, Texas.

El Paso Chamber of Commerce (El Paso, Texas)
Information site by the Chamber of Commerce of the border city, El Paso, Texas.

El Paso-Juarez World Trade Center
The El Paso-Juarez World Trade Center is a unique bi-national partnership that brings together business organizations and public agencies to further foreign trade and economic development to benefit the border region of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexic based on the Concept of the World Trade Centers Association. Building on its rich trade history and proven international expertise, the center delivers first-class, worldwide information, business networking, education research, trade services, events and meeting facilities.

Frontera Norte Sur
Monthly report on the Borderlands of North central Mexico, updated daily. Features reports across all topics and disiplines.

Laredo Development Foundation: Los Laredos
At the center of the primary trade route connecting Canada, the United States and Mexico, and at the doorstep of Mexico's burgeoning industrial complex, Laredo and Nuevo Laredo offer markets, business opportunities and profit potential which business and industry simply cannot find anywhere else. Known locally as Los Laredos, Laredo and Nuevo Laredo are actually one city divided only by the Rio Grande River.

Maquiladoras
General information about the Maquiladoras. Over 1,500 Maquiladoras, Spanish for U.S. owned and operated assembly factories in Mexico, are located along the border 2,100 mile with the United States.

NAFTAnet
NAFTAnet is a provider of telecommunication/information consultative services and much of this site relates to their services. The page does, however, include links to several online journals, including Nafta Monitor.

New Mexico Trade: International Trade Border Issues
New Mexico's proximity to Mexico - 175 miles of shared border - enables the state to quickly supply raw materials and support services. The state actively participates in border development by promoting expansion of U.S. and foreign companies into the maquila industry.

Telecommunication and Economic Development in the Border Region
Results of a telephone survey of chambers of commerce and other economic organizations of cities along the U.S.-Mexico border about the level of knowledge and the genrral opinion of the Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund and the Texas Telecomunications Policy Institute. Study conducted by University of Texas at Austin student, Robert C. Robertson

Texas Centers for Border Economic and Enterprise Development at Texas A&M International
Provides information and technical assistance to university researchers and students and the border region business community through electronic databases, newsletters, workshops, seminars and conferences. Texas Center staff gather data from sources in the public and private sectors on a monthly basis. The Economic data is then placed in to a database.

Texas Centers for Border Economic Development at the University of Texas at El Paso
Provides economic and demographic information and analysis, conducts research that enhances regional economic development, provides technical assistance to business, industry and non-governmental organizations.

Texas Centers for Border Economic Development at the University of Texas at Pan American
The three key mandates of the Texas Centers are: the development and maintenance of an economic data base, the conduct of economic development research and planning, and the provision of technical assistance to industrial and governmental entities

United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce
The United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce (USMCOC), incorporated in 1973 in the District of Columbia as a 501 (c)(6) non-profit corporation, is a chartered bi-national organization promoting trade and investment between the two American nations. The Chamber represents more than 1,000 businesses in the United States and Mexico, and maintains offices in Washington, D.C., Mexico City, Los Angeles, San Diego, Dallas, New York, Denver, Chicago, Seattle, Detroit, Cleveland, Miami and Monterrey.

U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Project
The Interhemispheric Resource Center U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Project seeks to provide information and analysis regarding the way this process of globalization is playing out in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. borderlines and INCITRA (Information for Citizen Transboundary Action) are the two main components of the Border Project.

Special Contributions

FREE TRADE?: Informal Economies at the U.S.-Mexico Border by Kathleen Staudt
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From Cyber-THIS to Cyber-THAT: What 1998 and Beyond Hold in Store in Terms of New Information Technology, Business and Economy for Hispanics, Dr. Henry T. Ingle
Addresses the issue, what types of change do futurists believe can be expected from the continued and fast-paced growth of the information technology field from a business perspective and asks the question, how the U. S. Hispanic community might position itself in face of these changes?

BORDER VOICES, KTEP Radio

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	Is NAFTA Really Working? by Javier Sambrano
	Impact of NAFTA on the El Paso workforce, and especially in the manufacturing industry, is examined.

For a collection of general information resources, go to RESEARCH CENTERS and RESOURCES