Willacy County officials are hopeful they will offer businesses operating at Port Mansfield and beyond access to a new foreign-trade zone in the coming years.
In August, the county and McAllen Foreign Trade Zone Inc. applied to the federal government to add Willacy County to the existing foreign-trade zone.
“We’re looking forward to it being approved at the federal level and it’s county-wide. So we feel that will also help bring in more businesses, whether it’s from our friends to the South or anywhere for that matter,” Willacy County Judge Aurelio “Keter” Guerra recently told the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal.
Foreign trade zones are where products or raw materials can be imported into the U.S. and stored without paying tariffs until sold.
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Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza is a versatile multimedia news reporter who lives and works along the Texas-Mexico border in Hidalgo County. Mosbrucker-Garza is a news reporter for the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal. During her career she's worked for the McAllen Monitor, San Antonio Business Journal, The Advocate Newspaper in Louisiana, Phoenix New Times, and public media outlets in Baltimore and Philadelphia.
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