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There is another project in the works on the West coast, It was presented as a coal terminal to ship coal terminal, and then expanded to a bulk cargo terminal to ship grain and other US products to China. But now, buried in the permit application is the description, Export/Import terminal. Jerome Corsi claimed in an old article that SSA (the ILWU company who is developing the Gateway port) was searching for a deep water port location to import more Chinese goods into the NAFTA trade route, that would eliminate cross border inspections. I suspect that the idea had more to do with shutting out the Mexican and Canadian truckers than the cross border inspections, but special economic zones in Gateway ports also minimize import inspections. This port is receiving a lot of support straight from the White House. Patty Murray has a bill sitting in committee in the Senate to pay for it with federal funds (the bill is actually the Infrastructure spending part of Obama's jobs bill.) and Patty Murray's husband is a lifetime employee of SSA.