USA.- The governor elected from New Lion, Samuel Garcia, agreed with authorities of Texas exponentially boost trade and exports of both countries through joint work.
On his first international visit, the transition of administrations has not yet occurred, García Sepúlveda recalled one of his campaign proposals that has to do with the construction of the Highway Gloria-Colombia, a project that would raise the total potential of commerce.
“There are tasks to be done in the state of New Lion, a key to be able to give life to this new customs is the Highway a ColombiaIt has been designed in a plan for 20 years, but we have never started to move the first block.
“This lack of infrastructure continues forcing the regios, to saturate the traditional routes of New Lion, that’s why today I made a commitment to the Laredo authorities that, if USA He already did the same for the customs a Colombia, New Lion It is not going to be the excuse for its potential, which today is 40 percent, to reach 100 percent, “he added.
Samuel Garcia He also promised creative financing so that the project “pays for itself” and announced that another of the issues that he will seek to discuss with the Laredo authorities, Texas it is that of energies.
“We do not use our customs interior of the Port of Salinas and our customs borderline Colombia, the day that the regios pay their taxes in those customs, with what corresponds to us of collection, that customs“, He said.
Therefore, he warned that he will constantly visit the frontera and recalled the Free Trade Agreement that exists between Mexico and USA.
“A large part of those 16 thousand crossings of the merchandise that enters and leaves Mexico necessarily passes through Nuevo León … One and a half million dollars per minute, that is the size of potential that Texas and Nuevo León have for growth,” he concluded .
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