Tag Archives: maquiladora sector

Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA)

By Adina Moloman Sources: International Trade News, Foreign Policy European Union and United States are recently reopening the negotiations for a Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA). This is an agreement that opens markets and liberalizes trade with the intention of eliminating tariff barriers and quantitative restrictions between the U.S. and the EU. The first attempt [...]

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San Diego Mayor official visit to Tijuana

By Adina Moloman Source: San Diego Reader, UT San Diego On January 21, San Diego mayor Bob Filner had his first official meeting in Tijuana with Mayor Carlos Bustamante and border entrepreneurs, representatives of the Tijuana Maquiladora Industry. This is not Filner’s first appearance in Tijuana, last year he visited the organizers of Tijuana Innovadora [...]

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Baja California 2013 industrial upcoming event

By Adina Moloman Source: www.mexicalisupply.com The Maquiladora Sector in Baja California will continue to grow in 2013. With this New Year it is expecting new investment in the region, in addition different transnational corporations with manufacturing facilities in Baja California have already announced expansion projects. To name a few: DJO Global, Össur, Welch Allyn, all [...]

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Mexico new administration shows support for border economic zone project

By Adina Moloman Source: The Guardian (Series: the booming world), UT San Diego Mexico’s president visited Baja California last week where he met with almost 400 business and political leaders from this region. He was travelling with an economic adviser, the new Secretary of the Economy in order to attend meetings on a series of [...]

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2012 Mexico’s Competitiveness Ranking

By Adina Moloman Sources: www.oem.com.mx, WEF Global Competitiveness Report According to the report  ”The Competitiveness of the United Mexican 2012, The Road to Development” by the Graduate School of Government and Public Policy and its Institute for Regional Development; Baja California State is the state best positioned in Mexico followed by Distrito Federal, Nuevo León [...]

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Tijuana Startup weekend event

By Adina Moloman Sources:www.startupweekend.org, UT San Diego Startup Weekend Tijuana is a three day (54 hour)  event, which  will be held from Friday, October  12 – Sunday , October 14 at the BIT Center (Baja’s Innovation and Technology Center), Tijuana. The event is the perfect place where the entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs can talk about [...]

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The comeback of Mexican Maquiladoras

Source: Investor’s Business Daily Starting with this year, according to the Boston Consulting Group, China has lost its factory wage advantage over Mexico. A decade ago experts wrote about “China’s eating Mexico’s lunch”, where China’s reforms where challenging Mexico’s comparative advantages. Back then China was  winning the “battle” on attracting foreign direct investment based on [...]

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Mexico elections voting irregularities

By Adina Moloman Sources: The Guardian, The Washington Post, El Pais Mexico manufacturing and in a good part the maquiladora industry awaits the certification of the national election result of last Sunday. After preliminary results Mexico’s presidential elections were impugned. In spite of that, the Chairman of IFE declared elections were clean, transparent and without [...]

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Improvements on Mexico Customs Regulations

By Adina Moloman Sources: United States- Mexico Chamber of Commerce, www.ventanillaunica.gob.mx Improvements on Mexico Customs Regulations are expected when using the Single Window web application, which enables international cross-border traders to submit regulatory documents at a single location and/or single entity from the Mexican federal government. The implementation of the single window system in Mexico [...]

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Sustainable Lighting Program

By Adina Moloman Source: World Bank, Siglo 21 Through “Sustainable Lighting” Program, Mexico is showing that it is possible to implement a large-scale energy efficiency program in the residential sector. With this program, the public may exchange working incandescent bulbs (4 pieces) for other 4 energy saving CFL bulbs at designated sites set up in [...]

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