Editing Laredo, Texas (section)

===Trade===

[[File:View across the Rio Grande at Laredo, Texas.jpg|thumb|View across the Rio Grande at Laredo, Texas (postcard, {{Circa|1909}})]]
More than 47% of United States international trade headed for Mexico and more than 36% of Mexican international trade crosses through [[Laredo World Trade Port of Entry|the Laredo port of entry]].<ref>[http://madmax.lmtonline.com/askus/transportation/stories/trans1.htm "National report lists Laredo as largest inland port"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060514141905/http://madmax.lmtonline.com/askus/transportation/stories/trans1.htm |date=May 14, 2006 }}, ''Laredo Morning Times''</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dallasfed.org/research/swe/2006/swe0606b.html|title=Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas "Southwest Economy "|website=Dallasfed.org|access-date=August 27, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927122437/http://www.dallasfed.org/research/swe/2006/swe0606b.html|archive-date=September 27, 2007}}</ref> Laredo's economy revolves around commercial and industrial warehousing, import, and export. As a major player in international trade, the Laredo area benefited from passage of the [[North American Free Trade Agreement]], which has encouraged trade. The Laredo port of entry consists of [[International bridges in Laredo, Texas|four international bridges]] (with a proposed fifth one) crossing the Rio Grande into the Mexican states of [[Tamaulipas]] and [[Nuevo León]].