Editing Texas (section)

===Commerce===
Texas's [[Affluence in the United States|affluence]] stimulates a strong commercial sector consisting of retail, wholesale, banking and insurance, and construction industries. Examples of ''Fortune'' 500 companies not based on Texas traditional industries are [[AT&T Inc|AT&T]], [[Kimberly-Clark]], [[Blockbuster Inc.|Blockbuster]], [[J. C. Penney]], [[Whole Foods Market]], and [[Tenet Healthcare]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Texas |magazine=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune Magazine]] |date=April 30, 2007 |url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2007/states/TX.html |access-date=May 3, 2008}}</ref>

Nationally, the Dallas–Fort Worth area, home to the [[Highland Park Village|second shopping mall]] in the United States, has the most shopping malls per capita of any American metropolitan statistical area.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dallas Shopping |publisher=Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau |url=http://www.visitdallas.com/things-to-do/shopping/index.html |access-date=June 26, 2016}}</ref>

Mexico, the state's largest trading partner, imports a third of the state's exports because of the [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] (NAFTA). NAFTA has encouraged the formation of [[maquiladoras]] on the Texas–Mexico border.<ref>{{cite web|title=Recent Economic Transformations |website=Texas Politics |publisher=University of Texas |url=http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/9_3_3.html |access-date=October 13, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430110703/http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/9_3_3.html |archive-date=April 30, 2009 }}</ref>