Across the border, business at Casino Windsor was down about 70percentt in the days just after the terrorist attacks.
PAGE B1 Border Business Goes On The borderlands between Pakistan and Afghanistan are a crucial source of support for the Taliban, who extract sizable taxes as trade continues at near normal levels.
While the killings and threats of extortion have forced thousands of retail businesses in Juárez to close and tens of thousands of residents to flee their homes for the safety of Texas, border business experts say the vibrancy of the city's manufacturing industry is due to what is and has always been the bottom line: money.
There are the cross-border businesses that find it easier to operate in a single economic space.
"Relationships are the holy grail of cross-border businesses," said Duncan J. McCampbell, president of McCampbell Global, a Minneapolis small-business export consultancy.
Still, such regulations can stop neither multinational companies, which may repatriate profits, nor determined wealthy individuals, who travel frequently, hold foreign bank accounts and run their own cross-border businesses.
Free to jump borders, businesses became much more difficult to tax or regulate.
Alibaba is still set on growing beyond China, however, with its cross-border businesses, which brings international brands to Chinese consumers.
It is a global, cross-border business".
Domestic business is generally more profitable than cross-border business.
In response, many banks curtailed their cross-border business.
