Certainly, cross-border commerce has showered riches on the LareDos, as the sister cities like to style themselves.
Even the cross-border commerce with the Communists was thriving.
To check more, officials of both countries say, would paralyze cross-border commerce.
Today, its support and cross-border commerce help his rule.
Energy trade is the largest component of this cross-border commerce.
At the Mexican border, inspectors also have to speed a quarter-trillion dollars in annual cross-border commerce.
The new, unmapped territory of free cross-border commerce resists ready analysis, economists caution.
Academic and government experts suggest that the cross-border commerce in medicine runs to many hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
This cross-border commerce is expected to reach $410 billion this year.
But even if more small Latin American companies do venture online, they will still face other obstacles to cross-border commerce.