[2] Source: “Texas economic Update, Fall 2001”, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

 

[3] The trade data has been obtained from www.usatradeonline.gov a website of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

 

[4] The imports are calculated by adding the physical goods’ value as declared at the port of entry.  Texas has five major ports of entry: Houston, Dallas, El Paso, Laredo and Port Arthur.

 

[5] The information is primarily taken from the world wide web, and specifically from the greater Houston partnership website (www.houston.org) for information regarding Houston, from the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce (www.sachamber.org) for San Antonio, from the Austin Chamber (www.austinchamber.org) and from the Dallas Chamber (www.dallaschamber.org).