Mexico Manufacturing Information

Mexico’s attractiveness as a manufacturing venue is on the rise – and China should be worried, a logistics expert has said. Bill Golden agrees that escalating Chinese labor costs, coupled with mounting freight and other logistics-related expenses, could turn the heads of American manufacturers doing business in China. Golden is the retired president of International [...]

More information can be found at: Source: Miller Canfield In order to comply with its obligations under UN Resolutions 64/40 and 1540, in 2011 the Mexican Secretary of Economy issued an Accord establishing a system of export controls for arms, parts, and dual-use goods, software,technology and goods that could be used in the manufacture and proliferation of conventional weapons and [...]

The world of international commerce after 9/11 would be a different one, and US trade with Mexico and the rest of the world would never be the same. Suddenly, a microscope was applied to imports where scant, if any attention, had been paid before. Those manufacturing in Mexico and elsewhere began playing under new ground [...]

For optimum success, U.S. companies that manufacture in Mexico must not only produce a viable product at a competitive prices, but also operate within U.S. Customs guidelines. While the above mentioned responsibility lies with the maquiladora (the international factory in Mexico assembling raw goods into products) to ensure paperwork is filed correctly, and in accord [...]

Understanding the facets of the North American Free Trade Agreement is invaluable if your company is manufacturing in Mexico. Many believe NAFTA – enacted in 1994 to erode trade and investment barriers between the United States, Mexico and Canada – makes doing business in Mexico duty free. While most companies shipping merchandise to a manufacturing [...]

Those who suffer from anxiety at the mere thought of sending raw materials or components abroad to do value-added or assembly can channel that nervous energy elsewhere. The bonded warehouse has emerged as one of the industry’s solutions. The bonded warehouse, 200 years in the making, is defined by the U.S. government as “a building [...]

By José Luis Martínez The Offshore Group, Tucson, Arizona The ordinary set of eyes glimpses at a screw and sees little more. How much can be said, after all, about a piece of threaded metal with a head? Quite a bit more it seems, especially in a world where a competitive advantage in Customs tariffs [...]

Les Glick Partner Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, LLC Washington, D.C.   There are promising signs that the U.S. may finally resolve the Mexico trucking dispute that has resulted in high retaliatory tariffs from Mexico against the U.S., and also has blocked the entry of Mexican trucks into the interior of the United States past [...]