Editing Maquiladora (section)

==Growth and development==
During the later half of the 1960s, maquiladora industries rapidly expanded geographically and economically and by 1985, had become Mexico's second largest source of income from exports, behind oil.<ref name=stoddard2>Stoddard, Ellwyn R. ''Maquila: Assembly Plants in Northern Mexico''. p. 2.</ref> Since 1973, maquiladoras have also accounted for nearly half of Mexico's export assembly.<ref name=stoddard2 /> Between 1995 and 2000, exports of assembled products in Mexico tripled, and the rate of the industry's growth amounted to about one new factory per day.<ref name=shorris531>Shorris, Earl. ''The Life and Times of Mexico''. p. 531</ref> By the late twentieth century, the industry accounted for 25 percent of Mexico's [[gross domestic product]], and 17 percent of total Mexican employment.<ref>Hausman, Angela and Diana L Haytko. ''Cross-border Supply Chain Relationships: Interpretive Research of Maquiladora Realized Strategies''. p. 25.</ref>

=== Globalization ===
Since [[globalization]] and [[physical restructuring]]{{Citation needed|reason=please cite the recent addition of "physical restructuring".|date=January 2009}} have contributed to the competition and advent of low-cost offshore assembly in places such as China, and countries in [[Central America]], maquiladoras in Mexico have been on the decline since 2000. According to federal sources, approximately 529 maquiladoras shut down and investment in assembly plants decreased by 8.2 percent in 2002 after the imposition of countervailing duties on Chinese products, not available in North America, that were part of the electronics supply chain.<ref name=shorris531/> Despite the decline, over 3,000 maquiladoras still exist along the 2,000 mile-long United States&ndash;Mexico border, providing employment for approximately one million workers, and importing more than $51 billion in supplies into Mexico.<ref>Villalobos, J Rene, et al. ''Inbound for Mexico''. p. 38.</ref> Research indicates that maquiladoras' post-NAFTA growth is connected to changes in Mexican wages relative to those in Asia and in the United States, and to fluctuations in U.S. industrial production.<ref>[http://www.dallasfed.org/assets/documents/research/papers/2001/wp0106.pdf Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, ''Did NAFTA Really Cause Mexico's High Maquiladora Growth?'', July 2001]</ref> As of 2006, maquiladoras still accounted for 45 percent of Mexico's exports.<ref>Gruben, William C. and Sherry L. Kiser. ''The Border Economy: NAFTA and Maquiladoras: Is the Growth Connected?''</ref> Maquiladoras, in general, are best represented among operations that are particularly assembly intensive.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}}