Pharr, TX

Texas Border Facts Fall 2018

2017 Top 5 Exports 2017 Top 5 Imports Customs Port - Pharr/Hidalgo

There are three border crossings in the Pharr region that allow the Electrical Machinery; Equipment and Parts Electrical Machinery; Equipment and Parts cross-border movement of privately operated vehicles, pedestrians, $3.7 Billion $7.9 Billion buses, and commercial trucks. Each of these bridges connect Pharr to its sister city, Reynosa, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Mineral Fuels; Oils and Waxes Edible Fruit and Nuts $1.9 Billion $2.9 Billion Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge on the Rise $20.8 $11.6 Billion The Pharr-Reynosa International Billion Bridge began operations in Computers Related Machinery Computers Related Machinery $1.4 Billion $2.4 Billion 1996 and, since its opening, all northbound commercial traffic in the region crosses there. The bridge quickly has become one of the primary commercial vehicle crossings along the Texas-Mexico border, Plastics and Articles Measuring and Testing Instruments $786 Million serving industrial parks and maquiladoras on the eastern side of $1.9 Billion Reynosa.

McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge Vehicles Other than Railway Edible Vegetables and Roots $611 Million $1.2 Billion

The McAllen-Hidalgo Interna- 2017 Northbound Crossings tional Bridge serves southbound commercial vehicles, as well as privately operated vehicles and pedestrians in both directions.

Anzaldúas International Bridge 4,401,115 2,185,335 620,236 20,840 Personal Vehicles Pedestrians Commercial Trucks Buses

The Anzaldúas International 2017 Southbound Crossings Bridge opened in 2009 and is located on the western side of Reynosa. The facility handles privately operated vehicles, buses, and pedestrians in both directions. 4,506,441 1,617,260 594,249 20,135 Personal Vehicles Pedestrians Commercial Vehicles Buses Pharr, Texas

700,000 Growth in Northbound Truck Crossings between 1996 and 2017

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1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 In 2017, total U.S.-Mexico trade was valued at $557 billion. Of that amount, $336 billion worth of trade crossed at the Texas-Mexico border. Within the Pharr region, $32.4 billion of goods crossed the Texas-Mexico border, with the growth of imports outpacing exports over the past ten years. The top commodity (imports and exports) that crossed at the Pharr customs port during 2017 was electrical machinery, equipment, and parts, which were valued at $11.6 billion. Other important exports included fuels; computer related machinery and parts; plastics; and automobiles or parts. Key import commodities were edible fruits and nuts; computer related machinery and parts; measuring and testing instruments; and edible vegetables and roots.

$25,000 2017 Cross-Border Trade by $20,000 Surface Transportation Mode M I 99% of Imports L L $15,000 I O N 88% of Exports S $10,000

1% of Imports $5,000 11% of Exports 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Exports Imports 1% of export cargos travel by an unknown mode

Maintaining and expanding trade with Mexico is critical to the United States’s current and long- term economic prosperity. Texas’s trade transportation system has an essential role in maintaining the efficient flow of goods between the two nations. Texas’s Border Trade Advisory Committee, in conjunction with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), is providing the state’s elected officials with information and insight for key policy, planning, and funding decisions to facilitate future binational trade.

All data in this fact sheet are from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ Transborder Freight Data and Border Crossing/Entry Data, the City of Pharr, and the City of McAllen.