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Maybe he will have a small door in the wall...dedicated to goods from Ford and Carrier...

(with the other side of the door opening onto Mexican desert)

staffed by a single part time customs official...

Same as what the French did to Japanese imports of VCR equipment at the Poitier customs post....the Japanese backed down.

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Here is an idea to stop that stream of cars from unloading in LA....just tell the to go up to Portland....or better yet...to the East Coast ports.

Barriers To Trade Growing July 6, 1985|By R.C. Longworth, Chicago Tribune

``We exported some textiles, put them on a ship. When they got there, the customs point at that port had been closed, and the ship had to go to another port 1,000 miles away.`

Don Hughes, chief financial officer of Burlington Industries, the nation`s biggest textile company, is talking about how world trade really works.

``When the ship got to the other port,`` Hughes said, it found a tiny, one-man customs point, and that one officer was under orders to inspect every yard of textiles that came through him.

``Well, something like that can extend your delivery a couple of months. By that time, the customer is fed up, and he cancels the order. It only takes a few of these to ruin a market for you.``