Reference:MAQUILADORAS

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MAQUILADORAS

The Complete Twin Plant Guide (3 vols) HD9734.M43 C64 2001 Ref Desk (also has a CD Rom in the Media Center)

Maquiladora Source Book HD9734.M43 T537 1997 Ref

Twin Plant News and Twin Plant News Sourcebook (both held by UCSD, but not at SDSU)

A keyword search in the PAC will reveal many books about this U.S.-Mexico border industry. Also see the LCSH subject heading: Offshore Assembly Industry

Also look in ABI/Inform and Business and Industry Database.

Definition: "Mexican assembly plants that manufacture finished goods for export to the United States. The maquiladoras are generally owned by non-Mexican corporations. They take advantage of plentiful low-cost Mexican labor, advantageous tariff regulations (lessened somewhat as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement), and close proximity to U.S. markets to produce such items as home appliances and automobiles. Starting on a small scale in the mid-1960s, the maquiladoras were initially almost entirely located in the N border region of Mexico. They grew dramatically after Mexico substantially revised its economic regulations concerning foreign investment in the early 1980s. From 1983 to 1990, the maquiladora industry grew at approximately 20% annually, and it grew even more sharply with the U.S. economic boom in the late 1990s; it is one of Mexico's primary sources of foreign exchange. The maquiladoras stimulated rapid population migration to the border region, particularly at its eastern and western extremities (Matamoros/Brownsville and Tijuana/San Diego). In 2000 some 4,000 plants employed approximately 1.3 million workers. Beginning in the late 1990s an increasing number of the plants were located in the Mexican heartland." -- from Encyclopedia.com

See also Doing Business in Foreign Countries

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