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See city of license for more information on television and radio.

• Television station WPCW is licensed to Jeannette, Pennsylvania, even though it serves the city of Pittsburgh because no station allocation slots are available for the latter.
• During the 1960s, it was noted that San Diego could support another television station, but because of allocations already given to Los Angeles, and the Mexican Government having two channels allocated to it for the neighboring city of Tijuana, there were no channel spaces available, so a Mexican corporation obtained a license from that government to operate XETV, Channel 6, which operates exclusively in English and basically serves the city of San Diego even though it broadcasts from Tijuana.
• RKO General was the owner of New York City television station WOR-TV, channel 9, when a series of scandals broke involving its parent company, General Tire. As part of the settlement of issues, Channel 9 moved from New York City to Secaucus, New Jersey in 1983 in order to give New Jersey its first commercial VHF television station since 1962 (Newark's original independent WATV 13 had become what is now WNET). Nonetheless, the station's market is almost exclusively the New York City area. Channel 9's renewal was approaching, and at the time, a federal law had been passed that gave automatic renewal to any station that moved to a state that did not have a TV station. The only states this applied to were New Jersey and Delaware, so to get around its licensing problems, RKO moved its station from New York to New Jersey to take advantage of the automatic approval of renewal.

• The tourist attraction South of the Border, is located in Dillon, South Carolina, about 300 feet from the border between North Carolina and South Carolina, and sells tremendous amounts of fireworks to people from other states, including North Carolina, where such sales are illegal.
• It is illegal in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for residents of the state to have fireworks and it is illegal to sell fireworks in Pennsylvania to a resident, however, it is legal to sell fireworks to non-residents of Pennsylvania who are buying them to take them out of the state, thus a number of fireworks stores in Pennsylvania operate to sell fireworks only to non-residents, who must show an out-of-state license.
• A number of small towns in California permit some fireworks to be sold, while the nearby larger communities forbid them, so residents will often visit small towns nearby to buy fireworks to take home and use.
• Washington, D.C. permits the sale of fireworks while the neighboring jurisdictions of Montgomery and Prince George's counties in Maryland do not; in some cases, police from those jurisdictions would watch fireworks stands outside of the state, collect license tag numbers of cars that visited them, and if the person drove into Maryland, would stop and ticket them for having illegal fireworks.

• In some parts of the United States the local community has banned the sale, and possibly, the use of alcohol in a so-called dry county. In this case, a nearby county which is not dry will have a liquor store which is much larger than that county could actually support because it also provides alcohol for the residents of the (one or more) dry counties near it.
• Very high excise taxes on alcohol in the Nordic countries has resulted in considerable reimportation of alcohol and conflicts with European Union legislation. For example, Åland, an autonomous province of Finland, is not a part of the EU VAT area and ships stopping at any of the ports of Åland can sell tax-free alcohol, much of which is often Finnish-produced.

• Items which are subject to heavy taxes at point of sale (such as motor fuels, alcohol and tobacco, perfumes and luxury items) often are offered for sale at border crossings. Some are the staples of "duty-free shops", which sell solely to clients who are leaving the country and who otherwise would need to pay a higher price for the identical commodities at their intended destination. One of the rare instances in which a Petro-Canada station has operated abroad was to serve a busy interstate highway at a Québec border crossing near St. Albans, Vermont.

• Due to opposition from residents in the community in which it would normally operate, some operators of big-box stores will move into a small community or unincorporated township and operate there, even though the general customer base of the store is the much larger (intended) community. Builders of large factories and shopping centres have often chosen locations just outside a community's city limits to take advantage of more favourable municipal tax rates or less stringent or non-existent urban planning restrictions in an adjacent municipality or semi-rural area.