Editing Tijuana (section)

===Manufacturing===
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Tijuana is a large manufacturing center, and in addition to tourism, it serves as a cornerstone of the city economy. In the past decade alone, Tijuana became the medical device manufacture capital of the North American continent, surpassing previous leader [[Minneapolis–Saint Paul]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Analysis by Crossborder Group Finds Tijuana #1 City in North America for Medical Device Manufacturing Employment |url=http://crossbordergroup.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/analysis-by-crossborder-group-finds-tijuana-1-city-in-north-america-for-medical-device-manufacturing-employment/ |access-date=14 August 2011 |publisher=Tijuana Economic Development Corporation |date=19 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330182406/http://crossbordergroup.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/analysis-by-crossborder-group-finds-tijuana-1-city-in-north-america-for-medical-device-manufacturing-employment/ |archive-date=30 March 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> Recently Scantibodies<ref>{{cite web |url=https://scantibodies.com/about/|title=About SLI &#124; Scantibodies Laboratory, Inc.|date=15 February 2012|website=scantibodies.com}}</ref> announced a new plant of 130,000 m2 devoted to manufacturing of medical devices <ref>{{cite web |title=SiiLA |url=https://www.siilamexico.blog/en/post/scantibodies-will-invest-80-million-dollars-in-expanding-its-production-in-tijuana |website=SiiLA Mexico}}</ref> The new plant is a build to suit by FINSA<ref>{{cite web |title=FINSA Development |url=https://www.finsa.net/ |website=FINSA}}</ref>

Tijuana's proximity to [[Southern California]], and the city's large, skilled, diverse, and relatively inexpensive workforce, make it an attractive city for foreign companies looking to establish extensive industrial parks composed of assembly plants that are called ''[[maquiladora]]s'', even more so than other cities in the US-Mexican border zone, taking advantage of the [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] (NAFTA) to export products. At its peak, in 2001 Tijuana had roughly 820 of these 'maquiladoras'.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cfomaquiladoras.org/dataprincipalabril05.htm| title=Maquiladora estadísticas abril 2005 | work=cfomaquiladoras.org |access-date=31 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607154400/http://www.cfomaquiladoras.org/dataprincipalabril05.htm |archive-date=7 June 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref> Foreign and domestic companies employ thousands of employees in these plants, usually in assembly-related labor. Such jobs are not demanding but typically offer above average salaries for Mexico, with most maqiladoras jobs beginning at MX$100 per day (about 5 US dollars, as of September 2016), significantly above the Mexican minimum wage of Mex$57.46 (about 3 US dollars, as of September 2016). Companies that have set up maquiladoras in Tijuana include [[Medtronic]], [[Lanix]], [[Hyundai Group|Hyundai]], [[Sony]],<ref>Alberts, Hana R., [https://www.forbes.com/2009/09/01/sony-hon-hai-tv-factory-business-billionaires-terry-gou.html "Sony Hives Off Major Factory"], ''Forbes'', 1 September 2009</ref> [[Vortec]], [[BMW]], [[Vizio]], [[Toyota]], [[Dell]], [[Samsung]], [[Kodak]], [[Panasonic Corporation|Matsushita/Panasonic]], [[GE]], [[Nabisco]], [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]], [[Microsoft]], [[Cemex]], [[Zonda Telecom|Zonda]], [[Philips]], [[Pioneer Corporation|Pioneer]], [[Airbus]], [[Plantronics]], [[Siemens Mexico]], [[Jaguar Cars|Jaguar]], [[Sanyo]] and [[Volkswagen]]. Many of the maquiladoras are located in the Otay Mesa and Florido sections of Tijuana.
Economic development has its central business district at Zona Río, which together, with the corridor along Blvd. Agua Caliente (the extension of Avenida Revolución), contains the majority of the higher-end office space in the city. {{citation needed|date=March 2019}}