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Facilitating trade, ensuring security: What are our options? March 23, 2012 Tubac , Arizona

Facilitating trade, ensuring security: What are our options? March 23, 2012 Tubac , Arizona America Trades Produce Border Trade Alliance. About The BTA.

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Facilitating trade, ensuring security: What are our options? March 23, 2012 Tubac , Arizona

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  1. Facilitating trade, ensuring security: What are our options? March 23, 2012 Tubac, Arizona America Trades Produce Border Trade Alliance

  2. About The BTA • Our Mission:To initiate, monitor and influence public policy and private sector initiatives for the facilitation of international trade and commerce through advocacy, education, issue development, research and analysis, and strategic planning. • Our Core Value: A commitment to improving the quality of life in border communities through the development of trade and commerce.

  3. BTA Advocacy Advantage • BTA takes grassroots border concerns to policymakers • Consistent presence in Washington, D.C. • Regular outreach on northern border, Mexico City • BTA members come from the public and private sectors, north and south

  4. A look at trade flows: Truck entries from Mexico, 1995-2010 • 1995: 2.8 million truck entries across all southern land border • 2005: 4.7 truck entries across all southern land border • 2009: 4.3 million truck entries across all southern land border • 2010: 4.7 million truck entries across all southern land border • Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics

  5. Managing the flows: Challenges on three fronts • Infrastructure • Manpower • Technology

  6. Coordinated Border Infrastructure Program • CBI funds are drawn down by border state departments of transportation to fund border infrastructure projects. • Included in last highway funding bill, SAFETEA-LU • Major economic impact in New York - $27.5 million annually • Distributed to states by formula • Projects within 100 miles of the border

  7. Infrastructure and Manpower: Can the private sector and state and local governments play a role? Acknowledging that the federal government will not be riding to the budgetary rescue • Funds are not available for a dramatic boost in infrastructure or personnel spending Private sector, state, county and local governments poised to play a role? • Legislation moving that would allow for public-private partnerships, public-public partnerships in infrastructure and, hopefully, staffing

  8. The Technology Challenge: Industry always a step ahead of government • More technology energy being spent between ports than at the ports • We have to walk and chew gum: Border security technology is needed between the ports, but the POEs themselves are missing out. • In 2012, shouldn’t we have a more effective way of measuring wait times at the border? • Pleased that CBP has shown more willingness to engage with private sector on POE ideas

  9. Border Trade Alliance • Nelson Balido • (210) 912-3212 • nelson@thebta.org • Website: • http://www.thebta.org/ Youtube: www.youtube.com/bordertradealliance Twitter: www.twitter.com/thebta

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