Look Beyond Your Borders Trade Corridors Ted Houghton Texas Transportation Commission.

Look Beyond Your Borders

Trade Corridors

Ted HoughtonTexas Transportation Commission

Texas State Highway System largest road system with 80,000+ miles

The State of Texas

• Is #1 in Gross Domestic Product

• Has top business climate in nation (Site Selection Magazine 11/04)

Texas Trade Partners

1) Mexico– 45% with Texas– Chihuahua, Mexico largest state trading partner

2) South Korea

3) Taiwan

4) China

5) Japan

Texas/Mexico Trade Corridors

Corralitos Ranch cattle drive

Texas Trade Corridors

The Butterfield Trail Marker

Texas Trade Corridors

Del Rio Wool & Mohair Company

Texas Trade Corridors

Gulf Intracoastal Waterway

Texas Trade Corridors

Texas Trade Corridors

Interstate Highway 35 in Austin, Texas

Trade Corridor

Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach

Trade Corridor

The Alameda Corridor

Trade Corridor

The Alameda Corridor

Trade Corridor

Pacific Coast Water Ports

Texas Trade Corridors

Texas Gulf Water Ports

Texas Trade Corridors

Texas/Mexico Border Ports of Entry

SHIFTS IN TRADE ROUTES AFFECTING TEXAS

Panama Canal

Chicago

POLA / POLB

2009

• Expansion of All-water Routevia Panama Canal

• Expansion of Mexico Routing

• Expansion ofSan Pedro Bay Ports Routing

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MAJOR IMPORTER TRENDS• The concentration of trade between the US retail sector and North Asia has

provided a number of importers with market power

• Identified top retailers represent approximately 4.3% of GDP and employ 2.7% of US private employment, and nearly 20% of retail employment

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NORTHWEST Wal-MartLowe’sCircuit City

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MIDWEST

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SOUTHWEST

NORTHEAST

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MID-ATLANTIC

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SOUTHEAST

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SOUTHCENTRAL

What Will It Take?

• Champions

• Look beyond your border all the way to ….

• Financing

• Public/Private Partnerships– Shipping companies– Railroads– Regional Mobility Authorities– State of Texas