Prior to NAFTA maquiladora companies importing raw materials from anywhere in the world were given preferencial tariff rates by the Mexican government so long as the finished good was for export.

In the mid-1980s, fueled by trade and the growth of the maquiladora ( in which components are shipped to Mexico, assembled and shipped back ), things began to pick up in Hidalgo County.

Although the maquiladora industry suffered due to the early 2000s recession, maquiladoras constituted 54 % of the US-Mexico trade in 2004, and by 2005, the maquiladora exports accounted for half of Mexico's exports.

During the later half of the sixties, maquiladora industries rapidly expanded geographically and economically and by 1985, had become Mexico ’ s second largest source of income from foreign exports, behind oil.

By 2005, over $ 10 billion in new investments were attracted by those programs in the automotive, electronics, and maquiladora industries, allowing the nation to regain some of its presence in world markets despite the failure to reach structural economic reforms sought by the Fox government.

A maquiladora () or maquila () is the Mexican name for manufacturing operations in a free trade zone ( FTZ ), where factories import material and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly, processing, or manufacturing and then export the assembled, processed and / or manufactured products, sometimes back to the raw materials ' country of origin.

The introduction of the maquiladora economy and the North American Free Trade Association led to a boom in international trade, cross-border commerce with Mexico and health care.

Mexico possesses a strong system of labor laws, yet enforcement of these laws within the maquiladora industry is often lax.

Opponents of this allegation argue that women are paid higher wages working in a maquiladora than they commonly would in other forms of employment in northern Mexico.

The maquiladora operators have also been accused of discriminating against child-bearing-aged women to keep costs down, because Mexico ’ s labor laws contain extensive maternity requirements.

In this public intervention, women working in the “ maquiladora ” industry of Tijuana, Mexico wore media technology designed to project their faces onto El Centro Cultural as they spoke emotionally of incest, police abuse, and work place discrimination in real time.

" A Canadian network promoting solidarity with groups in Mexico, Central America, Africa, and Asia organizing in maquiladora factories and export processing zones to improve conditions and win a living wage.

In the film, Ana, a fake Mayan art smuggler, and Aurelia, a maquiladora worker, flee from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua in Northern Mexico and those who pursue them to Cancún in the Yucatán peninsula province of Quintana Roo.

NAFTA has eliminated all tariffs on goods between the two countries, but for the maquiladora industry significantly increased the tariff rates for goods sourced outside of NAFTA.

The industrial sector has shifted since 1993 from a primarily domestic orientation to include free zone ( maquiladora ) manufacturing for export.

Contrary to popular belief, the maquiladora program was in place far before NAFTA, in some sense dating all the way back to 1965.

The solutions relied on in the past — traditional export crops, the maquiladora assembly industry, and 1980s ' development schemes — appear unlikely to provide enough new jobs for a rapidly growing population.

Recent research indicates that the maquiladora industry has an impact on U. S. border city employment in service sectors.

* Article on worker-run maquiladora in El Salvador

Subsequent efforts involved battles with illicit drug smugglers using maquiladora covers for their activities, a hunt for a serial killer, conflicts with human-smuggling operations, and with Sandoval's own conscience over how best to serve the people of Dos Rios.

The Honduran maquiladora sector, the third-largest in the world, continued its strong performance in 2000, providing employment to over 120, 000 and generating more than $ 528 million in foreign exchange for the country.

The term maquiladora, in the Spanish language, refers to the practice of millers charging a maquila, or " miller's portion " for processing other people's grain.

Some maquiladora operators have admitted a preference for women also because women often display a greater level of patience and higher dexterity than men in performing the repetitive work of an assembly plant.

The implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 resulted in the expansion of the maquiladora industry and created new opportunities for employment for females outside of the home and in the factories.

At the height of the maquila ( short for maquiladora ) boom, there were an estimated number of more than 700 maquilas in town, including those that were operating from homes, often in secret.

The maquiladora, or assembly industry, was a growth industry in the generally bleak economy.

Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, are home to one of the largest maquiladora clusters.

While most people who were employed under the original Bracero Program were men, the majority of maquiladora employees are young women.

Some have argued that maquiladora employment enables women to make their own money and thus become more independent, while teaching them new skills and giving them more opportunities that they may not otherwise acquire.

A major manufacturer of recreation vehicles, Monaco Coach Corporation, is headquartered in Coburg, and operates one of four manufacturing plants there.

Nucor, a large steel manufacturer, operates two facilities east of the town near the Mississippi River.

Since 1974, C & M Corporation, a vertically integrated manufacturer of cable, has owned and occupied the former Wauregan Mills complex, where it operates a production facility and maintains its corporate headquarters.

Although private businesses are more limited, Royal Canin, a major manufacturer of dog and cat food, operates in Rolla.

Major manufacturing employers include Becton Dickinson, a medical products company that operates two facilities in Columbus ; Behlen Manufacturing, which produces steel buildings, grain bins, and agricultural equipment ; CAMACO, a manufacturer of automotive seat frames ; Cargill, which operates a ground-beef processing plant ; Archer Daniels Midland, which runs a corn-milling facility ; and Vishay Dale Electronics, a subsidiary of Vishay Intertechnology that produces electronic components.

Peckham Materials Corp, a manufacturer asphalt and crushed stone, operates a large quarry at the Southern end of the Town.

Lincoln Logs Ltd., a manufacturer of log, timber, and cedar homes, operates a large mill in the hamlet of Chestertown.

Copier and printer manufacturer Xerox operates a large facility in Wilsonville, and is the city's largest employer.

AMC renamed the division AM General, which still operates today, and is best known as the manufacturer of the Humvee, and civilian Hummer H1.

In 2003, she discovered the source code of voting machine manufacturer, Diebold Election Systems, which now operates under the name Premier Election Systems.

It operates under the trading name Maplesoft and is best known as the manufacturer of the Maple computer algebra system and MapleSim physical modeling and simulation software.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited ( BHEL ) (, ) is an Indian integrated power plant equipment manufacturer and operates as an engineering and manufacturing company based in New Delhi, India.

Bombardier is the manufacturer of much of the rolling stock operated by the railroad, while Alternate Concepts is majority owner of Paul Revere Transportation, which operates some bus lines under contract from the MBTA.

* Gibson-The android manufacturer who operates from Mount Hang ' Em High.

TEREM, a former weapons manufacturer owned by the government and recently sold to private investors operates from Bozhurishte.

The company was sold to Carter's, another clothing manufacturer in 2005 for $ 312 million, though it still operates under the original name and maintains a corporate headquarters in Oshkosh.

Today, Rodgers is a businessman in Omaha, Nebraska where he operates a sports marketing company and bedding products manufacturer.

In 1999, Carroll sold the track in equal parts to lottery equipment manufacturer GTECH, gaming conglomerate Harrah's Entertainment, and the non-profit Keeneland Association, which operates the Lexington, Kentucky, race track and Thoroughbred auction facility.