You know I am taking a lot of heat on this thread, but there are at least a few others that can see how worked up some folks have gotten over what is really nothing at all.
Take you. You seem to think that this facility in Kansas City, of all places, is intended to facilitate the import of "chinese crap" via Mexico.
Well, You don't want Chinese crap, don't buy it then. That's freedom for you.
But that's not really my point. My point is that this KC facility is being proposed to make if easier for Mexicans to Buy "American crap".
This is primarily an EXPORT facility. That's what pre-clearance is all about.
Think about it.
There is no need for a Mexican customs facility in Kansas City to facilitate import of Mexican good into the US. That's the function of US CUSTOMS, Einstein. This Mexican Customs facility is to facilitate our own exports to Mexico.
US Customs will set up in Mexico, not in Kansas City, to pre-clear Mexican cargo into the US.
This entire thread is powered by bad gas.
What American crap are the Mexicans buying? We run a trade deficit with them. Was 30 billion dollars a few years ago. Before NAFTA we ran a surplus and the illegal alien problem wasn't nearly as bad. But the Mexicans do buy lots of Chinese craps and run a large trade deficit with China
Chinese craps coming into Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas then onward by rail to so called "Smart Port" in Kansas City ---->>>
http://www.kcsmartport.com/sec_news/media/articles/News.htm
The next stage of the SmartPort project will begin to track containers on railcars, using Kansas City Southern Railway's line that extends to the Mexican Pacific port of Lazaro Cardenas. Hutchison Port Holdings, the port operator, is expanding container capacity from 200,000 containers in 2005 to 2.5 million in the near future, Gutierrez said. Kansas City is at the center of a port-to-port access that also extends north to Hudson's Bay at Churchill, Manitoba. Some planners are considering Churchill as terminus of an Arctic Ocean container route from Murmansk, Russia.
SmartPort is one of a growing network of inland ports that want to use ocean routes to Churchill, or Lazaro Cardenas, or other ports to relieve congestion on the West Coast. For more than a century, Kansas City boosters have pointed out that the overland distance is shorter to a Mexican port than any West Coast port. The north-south routes would not likely supplant Los Angeles or New York-New Jersey, but the inland ports working together can provide some benefits for warehousing and distribution.
"The idea is that there is a network of interested parties that recognize there is some synergy within these inland ports, linking Canada, the U.S. and Mexico together," said Greg Dandewich, director of economic development for Destination Winnipeg, the northernmost partner in the inland network.