maquiladoras

Some global manufacturers could be feeling a cost crunch. Mexico may be the solution they’re looking for.

The export plant employs 2,000 workers and makes electronic parts used in vehicles manufactured by Chrysler, General Motors, Ford and others.

Canada-based BRP’s third plant in Ciudad Juarez aims to meet demand for the company’s off-road recreational vehicles.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mexican export factories back to work; Texas seaport awarded road improvement grant; Canadian company plans $26 million Texas distribution center expansion; $2.5 million in drugs found in mattress shipment from Mexico.

The Mexican government issued a new decree on Thursday causing confusion among companies as to when they will be able to restart U.S.-linked supply chains.

Reports of deaths tied to maquiladoras come at a time when Mexican trade groups are pushing to reopen factories that have been shut down because of the coronavirus.

El Paso, Texas, and Santa Teresa, New Mexico, benefit from their proximity to Juarez, Mexico, “the king of maquiladoras.”

Officials with the McAllen Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) will soon take a second tour of China to look for new partnership opportunities in that country. Keith Patridge, president and chief […]

The Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo should “bet more on logistics and foreign trade” than on attracting more maquiladoras, according to trade experts. “Nuevo Laredo no longer needs to […]

Ben Thrower writes about nearshoring manufacturing, which has gone on for decades. He also writes about the potential for nearshoring services, a new opportunity for both U.S. and Latin American businesses.

The McAllen Economic Development Corporation (EDC) recently worked with officials in the Mexican city of Reynosa to build two new maquiladoras (also known as maquilas), in addition to a major […]