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World Trade Bridge
The busiest commercial land crossing in the U.S.
The World Trade Bridge at Laredo, Texas, spans the Rio Grande into Nuevo Laredo and is the busiest commercial truck crossing on the U.S.-Mexico border - and one of the busiest land freight gateways in the world. Reserved for cargo trucks, it carries a huge volume of the trade between the two countries, much of it auto parts and manufactured goods.
Laredo as a whole handles more land trade than any other U.S. port of entry, the funnel point where Interstate 35 - the "NAFTA highway" - meets Mexico's northern industrial corridor.