Some are conjecturing that they want to build new rail lines through the rural areas of our county, and connect with existing rails that would go to this Idaho FTZ.
As to the Free trade zone. Please read more carefully. A FTZ is not owned by a foreign country: The area south of Boise will still belong to the United States and Idaho. The FTZ exists to help Idaho export to China. Here's a theory, a large amount of tech companies are located in the Boise area. The FTZ could allow them to more easily ship tech products to China.
Here's an example of a proposed FTZ in Canada for exporting Lumber.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/04/11/canada-us-lumber-dispute_n_1418932.html
Read the article and tell me who owns the FTZ: Australia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore or Chile? They are all part of it.
Here's another take on how horrible FTZ’s are:
“FTZs, usually located on major trade routes, grant multinational corporations access to cheap labor markets and offer exemptions from taxes, tariffs, and government regulations. Historically, governments dominated by corporate interests demand FTZs while governments that need to create jobs provide them.”
http://combatingglobalization.com/articles/north_american_free_trade_zones.html
I post the above article for the reason of pointing out why liberals don't like FTZ. According to the leftists free trade zones allow the evils of capitalism to do what is does best, create jobs (or as the libs call it companies exploiting the local labor force). Now can the companies focusing on exporting to China pay less than Idaho's minimum wage? What the FTZ can do is help companies in Boise (be they owned by Chinese companies or American companies) to export more easily to China by being able to avoid tariffs and other taxes.
You don’t understand, the Chinese don’t want to and would not build rail lines in the US. The federal dept of transportation is funding the trains. They are a part of Obama’s plans for multi-modal transportation corridors throughout the US, moving people and cargo through urban centers and ports. The multi-modal transportation corridors are known as Gateways.
Patty Murray has a bill in committee in the the Senate, SB942, which will fund these Gateway projects around the country, but mainly the one in WA State, which happens to be a coal terminal, planned by SSA (owned by Goldman Sachs). Murray’s husband just happens to work for SSA. The co-sponsors of the bill were Dick Durbin (there is already a Gateway in Chicago), and Susan Collins of Maine. The Gateway 1 in Maine was put on hold when the new governor pulled the funding, but there is a lot of information on the web about the Gateway 1 project and is possibly the best source of material to gain an understanding of what these FTZs and Gateways are about.
It’s all connected to the Agenda 21 Wildlands program.