Bill Text: TX SCR22 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Urging Congress to recognize the importance of trade between Texas and Mexico.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-27 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SCR22 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SCR22-Introduced.html
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| By: Lucio | S.C.R. No. 22 | |
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| WHEREAS, Trade between Texas and Mexico plays a vital role in | ||
| the economic prosperity of the Lone Star State; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Each year, Texas sends about 36 percent of the | ||
| state's total exports to Mexico, and in 2015, exports to Mexico | ||
| totaled nearly $92.5 million; goods exported to Mexico include | ||
| computer and electronic products, petroleum and coal products, | ||
| chemicals, machinery, and transportation equipment, all of which | ||
| are produced by industries that supply hundreds of thousands of | ||
| jobs to the Lone Star State; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Since the ratification of the North American Free | ||
| Trade Agreement in 1994, the export of U.S. goods to Mexico has | ||
| risen 325 percent, while imports into the United States from Mexico | ||
| have increased 458 percent; in 2012, Americans spent $277.5 billion | ||
| for goods from Mexico, and Mexico is America's third-largest | ||
| supplier of oil, after Canada and Saudi Arabia; additionally, | ||
| nearly half of the tomatoes and two-thirds of the mangoes consumed | ||
| in the United States come from Mexico; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The importance of this trade to Texas border cities, | ||
| including Brownsville, Hidalgo, Laredo, and El Paso, is tremendous, | ||
| and disruption to international commerce would be economically | ||
| devastating; by placing a priority on working with the natural | ||
| landscape of the area and building barriers such as levees, the | ||
| federal government could preserve the immeasurable benefits of the | ||
| healthy trade environment while protecting the border; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Mexico is the largest trading partner of Texas and | ||
| the third-largest of the United States, and it is imperative that | ||
| our federal government take proactive steps to strengthen ties with | ||
| Mexico and build bridges of economic opportunity that will benefit | ||
| Texas and the entire nation; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby urge the United States Congress to recognize the importance | ||
| of trade between Texas and Mexico and foster international | ||
| commerce; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That Congress and federal agencies focus border | ||
| efforts on working within the natural landscape of the region | ||
| instead of obstructing trade with a border wall; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
| copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
| the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of | ||
| Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the | ||
| members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that | ||
| this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a | ||
| memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. | ||
