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The north americain trade corridors
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Following the implementation of NAFTA, coalitions of
interest have been formed in order to promote specific
transport channels, to develop the infrastructures of
these channels and to propose jurisdictional
amendments to facilitate the crossing of borders.
These coalitions include businesses, government
agencies, civil organizations, metropolitan areas,
rural communities and also individuals, wishing to
strengthen the commercial hubs of their regions.
The North American trade corridors are bi- or
tri-national channels for which various cross-border
interests have grouped together in order to develop or
consolidate the infrastructures. The North American
corridors are considered multimodal in the sense that
they bring into play different modes of transport in
succession.
The infrastructures may include roads, highways,
transit routes, airports, pipelines, railways and
train stations, river canal systems and port
facilities, telecommunications networks and teleports.
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The Pacific corridor
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The Pacific corridor includes the entire geographic
band formed by the Rocky Mountain range and the
Pacific coast. A huge transport network (highways,
railways, airports and port infrastructures)
facilitates trade between Western Canada, the U.S.
East Coast and Mexico.
The traffic in the Pacific corridor mainly uses
Highway I-5 in the United States, which joins together
the major cities along the Pacific coast. At the
U.S.-Mexican border, the corridor passes through two
major ports of entry: San Diego/Tijuana, the busiest
crossing point on the entire border, and Calexico/Mexicali,
where there is a high concentration of maquiladoras.
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To the north, Washington State and
British Columbia have established the
U.S.-Canada International Mobility and Trade Corridor
in order to facilitate cross-border trade at the 4
land-based crossing points there between Canada and
the United States.
NAFTA encouraged the creation of a network of business
people in the Pacific corridor. The Rocky
Mountain Corridor, for example, is an
association of small and medium businesses in the
three countries, doing business in the region.
North of the 49th parallel, two initiatives aim to
develop the trade potential of the corridor: the north-west
corridor aiming to link Western Canada with the
trade flows of NAFTA, and the Alaska
Railroad connection, project, aiming to
facilitate land-based access to Alaska.
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The central western corridor
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The central western corridor includes the largest
concentration of maquiladoras and the 2nd largest
trade volumes of all the North American corridors. It
uses one of the oldest trade routes on the continent,
nicknamed the “Camino Real”, or “King’s
Road”. The route links Chihuahua in Mexico to
Denver, Colorado, via the “Paso del Norte”, the
ports of entry of El Paso/Ciudad Juarez between
Chihuahua and Texas, and Santa Teresa in New Mexico.
The surface trade flows (by truck and rail) circulate
along Highway I-25 in the United States which,
together with Highway I-90, brings the corridor north
to Montana. Plans are to continue the Camino Real to
Great Falls, where the corridor could join up with
Canamex, a North American highway project, to enter
Canada.
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Canamex
is a planned four-lane highway extending from Mexico
City to Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada. The project has
recently received the support of a certain number of
states and provinces including Arizona, Sonora and
Alberta. The Canadian Government is providing
financial support for the building of the North
South Trade Corridor in Alberta, the Canadian
section of Canamex. The U.S. Congress has designated
the completion of Canamex as a high priority in the
American road system. Canamex currently uses Highway
I-15 in the United States. The external relations
secretariat of Mexico has taken on the promotion of
the project.
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The central eastern corridor
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The central eastern region has two trade corridors,
one urban, which passes through the largest North
American cities and the industrial basins of the
central eastern region, and another which is rural and
which passes through the Great Plains in the U.S. and
through the Canadian Praries.
The urban corridor of NAFTA brings half of the North
American population to within a single day’s journey
by highway between Montréal, Canada, and Mexico. The
corridor passes through the industrial stronghold of
Canada and its largest market. It enters the United
States at Port Huron and at Windsor, where it crosses
the Ambassador bridge, the busiest bridge in North
America, to join Detroit, Michigan, where the giants
of the automobile industry are located. In the United
States, the urban corridor follows “Corridor 18”,
which extends to the lower Rio Grande valley in Texas,
through Indianapolis, Indiana and Memphis, Tennessee.
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The second corridor includes the Great
Plains: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas,
Oklahoma and Texas; and the Canadian Prarie provinces:
Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta. A certain number
of associations have been formed following the
creation of NAFTA, in order to revitalize the rural
communities of the central eastern region, by taking
advantage of the transcontinental trade flows. The Central
North American Trade Corridor Association, The
Northern Great Plains Initiative, the Ports-to-Plains
Trade Corridor an the Mid-Continent
Trade Corridor are networks of business people,
civil organizations and government agencies aiming to
foster growth and employment in the central eastern
region by means of a direct transcontinental link
between Canada, the United States and Mexico. A
network of cities, the North
American International Trade Corridor Partnership (NAITCP),
aims to build a huge regional market by holding
regular trilateral meetings between member cities, and
by facilitating contact between businesses in the
corridor. In particular, the NAITCP has put together a
huge directory of enterprises in the corridor, which
may be consulted on-line, and organizes virtual trade
missions.
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The Atlantic corridor
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The Atlantic corridor includes four economic areas:
(1) the Canada-U.S. East Coast; (2) the Champlain-Husdon
corridor; (3) the Appalachian region and (4) the Gulf
of Mexico. The corridor provides an intermodal
transport system linking a 4-lane north-south highway,
3 major North American rail networks, 14 interstate
highway systems, 6 interprovincial systems, one
trans-Canadian highway and all the marine and airport
facilities of the Atlantic coast. Transcontinental
trade along this corridor uses the corridor of the
Gulf of Mexico or the maritime routes of the U.S. East
Coast.
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The first area includes all the trade
travelling along the U.S. East Coast on Highway I-95.
It has the appearance of a geographic band about 5,500
km long and 50 km wide, passing through a large number
of jurisdictions. Indeed, the area includes a
population of over 55 million inhabitants spread out
across 4 Canadian provinces and in 188 counties in 13
American states.
Another part of the north-east trade passes through
the Champlain-Hudson trade
corridor. This corridor extends from Québec
City to New York City. The Champlain/Lacolle border
crossing is one of the three largest commercial ports
of entry between Canada and the United States. The
corridor between Québec and New York possesses
advanced transport infrastructures that include
Canadian Highways 20 and 15, U.S. Highway I-87, a
fully modernized rail network and marine channels.
The Appalachian region follows the contours of the
mountain range that runs from the south of New York
State to northern Mississippi. It covers over 518,000
km2 and includes a population of 23 million people,
42% of whom are in rural areas (as compared to 20% of
the U.S. population as a whole). The highway
infrastructure of the Appalachian region – the Appalachian
Development Highway System – supports an international
Appalachian corridor linking Ontario to the
southern extremity of Florida, passing through
Baltimore, Washington, Norfolk and Charlotte. The Continental
1coalition has the aim of developing an
international corridor for trade and tourism between
Toronto, Ontario and Miami, Florida.
Finally, the Gulf Corridor links the three Mexican
states of Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas to the
entire north-eastern part of the continent. It passes
through the cities of Monterrey, San Antonio, Austin,
Houston and Baton Rouge, to join the traffic of the
Atlantic coast. The border crossing at Nuevo
Laredo/Laredo between Nuevo León and Texas is the
busiest U.S.-Mexico border crossing, with over 3
million trucks per year.
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