The border areas have been a major base for the production sharing industry for more than 30 years but it cannot rest on the past if it is to successfully capitalize. The challenge is to find ways to combine the best of both sides of the border and move forward.

      That was the message of a recent Hyperborder 2005 conference held in both El Paso and Ciudad Juárez that drew experts from the maquila industry and others.

      Noting that the Mexico border area has lost some of the very competitiveness that drew maquilas here more than three decades ago, Enrique Castro Septien, president of the national maquila industry (CNIME), said changes must be made. He said the area’s success depends on the ability of government and industry to adapt.

      He noted that the maquila industry originally was intended to generate jobs, facilitate a technology transfer to Mexico and generate currency.

            In the decades since, however, the global business environment has changed...

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