Texas Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Commerce=== Texas's [[Affluence in the United States|affluence]] stimulates a strong commercial sector consisting of retail, wholesale, banking and insurance, and construction industries. Examples of Fortune 500 companies not based on Texas traditional industries are [[AT&T Inc|AT&T]], [[Kimberly-Clark]], [[Blockbuster Inc.|Blockbuster]], [[J. C. Penney]], [[Whole Foods Market]], and [[Tenet Healthcare]].<ref name="fortune500_2">{{cite magazine |title=Texas |magazine=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune Magazine]] |date=April 30, 2007 |url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2007/states/TX.html |access-date=May 3, 2008}}</ref> Nationally, the Dallas–Fort Worth area, home to the [[Highland Park Village|second shopping mall]] in the United States, has the most shopping malls per capita of any American metropolitan statistical area.<ref name="VisitDallas_Shopping">{{cite web |title=Dallas Shopping |publisher=Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau |url=http://www.visitdallas.com/things-to-do/shopping/index.html |access-date=June 26, 2016}}</ref> Mexico, the state's largest trading partner, imports a third of the state's exports because of the [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] (NAFTA). NAFTA has encouraged the formation of [[maquiladoras]] on the Texas–Mexico border.<ref name="economy2">{{cite web|title=Recent Economic Transformations |website=Texas Politics |publisher=University of Texas |url=http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/9_3_3.html |access-date=October 13, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430110703/http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/9_3_3.html |archive-date=April 30, 2009 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page