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Where the Action IsTIJUANA is the TV manufacturing capital of the world. Plants of SONY, SAMSUNG, MATSUSHITA, and others in the area are turning out 14 million units per year, supported by San Diego-based management, engineering, marketing, and other services CIUDAD JUAREZ boasts 235 factories with a total of 178,000 employees, the biggest concentration of maquiladora workers on the border. GENERAL MOTORS, with 17 auto parts plants, is expanding its DELPHI division's R&D center, which serves customers around the world LAREDO AND NUEVO LAREDO thrive on warehousing, services such as WAL-MART'S huge distribution center, and customs brokering for daily two-way traffic of 4,000 loaded trucks across the Rio Grande. The main rail line from Mexico City to the U.S. also transits the border here.
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Updated June 15, 1997 by bwwebmaster
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