And only the Jordanians seemed ready to have anything to do with the Israelis: they signed a deal, sweetened by the Americans, to create joint factories in Jordan, leading, perhaps, to some kind of duty-free zone.

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Each industrial zone with duty-free facilities promoted economic liberty through the phenomenon of convergence.

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As if to emphasise the point, the briefcases given as part of a press kit to journalists at the summit were manufactured in an industrial zone where 13, 000 Jordanian workers piece Israeli components into goods that are sold free of duty in the United States.

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