By: Paul Theroux, New York Times
Published: February 23, 2012
A SIMPLE painted sign on a wooden board — “To Mexico” — was propped near the door in the fence, but it was the fence itself that fascinated me. Some masterpieces are unintentional, the result of a freakish accident or an explosive act of sheer weirdness, and the fence that divides Nogales, Ariz., from Nogales, Mexico, is one of them.
Read more...By: Peter T. Leach, For The Journal of Commerce
Published on January 5, 2012
China could lose advantage over U.S. in five years if freight rates rise 5 percent annually
The cost advantage of manufacturing products in low-cost manufacturing locations in Asia will erode in comparison to the U.S. and Mexico in 2012, according to a new report by global consultancy AlixPartners.
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