In northern Mexico, along the border, industrial cities have benefited from economic openness, and companies in places such as Monterrey and Ciudad Juarez are producing a variety of increasingly high-tech products for export.

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Russian Technologies State Corporation was set up to assist in the development, production and export of high-tech industrial products.

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