Cheaper if we build a new port in Mexico then get the imports that way from the Pacific Ocean.
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You can port in Western Mexico head to Texas and North and East from there.
It is the same, maybe shorter, than from LA.
Check this NAFTA map:
https://www.americansov.org/images/naipn_nasco_corridor.jpg
Hopefully, Florida will improve its major ports, if they haven’t already, to take all those deep draft container superships that will be skipping the California ports, assuming they would want to swing the cost of going through the Canal and the Gulf.