This doesn't even take into account for the huge black-market border trade at places like Mong Cai, in the north of the country, or Lang Son, which is known, among other things, for its large sex-toy market (dildos being technically illegal in Vietnam).
Public awareness campaigns took place in markets, border posts and bus terminals.
"Our customers have a market without borders and sourcing without borders, and we know that," Mr. Tredway said today.
One is his vision of the United States, Mexico and Canada united in a common market, their borders mere lines on the map, a generation from now.
After the market closed, Borders, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., reported earnings for the quarter ended July 29 of about $100,000, up from a loss of $1.6 million in the period a year earlier.
Spend some time wandering around the old city, check out the fish market the borders Le Vieux Port, try moules-frites and fall in love with this sunny city.
Kensington Market is bordered on the east by Spadina Avenue, the main strip for the city's Asian population.
Around the market's border are lots of sweets shops selling sugared pecans, divinity, warm pralines and even Charleston Chews.
But Wayne Cornelius, the director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego, predicted that if the United States job market revived, border enforcement would become much less of a deterrent.
It drew attention to "liquidity disruption" — "the simultaneous and protracted inability of financial institutions to roll over or obtain new short-term funding across both markets and borders" — as a defining characteristic of the financial crisis.
