Mexico Tourism, Trade a 535 Billion Dollar Boon to the United States Jacob Fischler - The Monitor
go to original June 3, 2013

As Congress debates immigration reform legislation, millions of tourists and billions of dollars continue to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in both directions.

A study released in early May by NDN, a center-left think tank based in Washington, D.C., shows trade and tourism between the two countries is at an all-time high.

Trade between the two nations in 2012 was estimated at $535 billion. That number is up from $300 billion in 2009, a number that’s projected to double by this year, said Simon Rosenberg, the president of NDN.

Texas leads all states with almost $200 billion in imports and exports with Mexico.

Trade with Mexico sustains almost 6 million U.S. jobs, the NDN study said.

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