A new joint venture in Mexico: Lafarge and Elementia
By Adina Moloman Sources: Reuters, The Wall Street Journal Mexico Corporation Elementia is a building materials conglomerate that just a few months ago entered into the cement making business with its cement division known as Cementos Fortaleza. A newly cement Mexican company in a market well dominated by the giant Cemex, followed by the Holcim […]
SENTRI vs. Global Entry: Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
Sources: Otay Mesa Chamber of Commerce Frequent Travel Programs: Land Ports only – SENTRI(For Traveling into the U.S. from Mexico at Land Ports of Entry) The SENTRI program, highly used by the maquiladora industry provides expedited CBP processing for pre-approved, low-risk travelers at land ports of entry between the U.S. and Mexico border. SENTRI has dedicated commuter […]
Commercial pre-clearance facilities on the Otay Mesa Port of Entry
By Adina Moloman Sources: UT San Diego, Fox News Latino US and Mexican authorities have negotiated a new arrangement to facilitate the flow of legitimate goods across the border. More than70% of truck traffic between California and Mexico travels through San Diego County ports of Entries with approximately 90% passing through Otay Mesa and the […]
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 […]
New license in California for border crossings
By Adina Moloman Sources: NBC San Diego, Union Tribune San Diego California leaders from different Associations and Chambers made lobbied this December amongst state lawmakers to pass Bill AB-17. This bill is about creating an enhanced driver’s license to use at California’s ports of entry. Enhanced drivers licenses make it easier for U.S. citizens to […]
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 […]
Mexico initiatives to develop aerospace technology
By Adina Moloman Source: www.maquilafind.com Mexico is already having a highly competitive and fast growing aerospace industry, mostly because it receives a large amount of foreign direct investment in aerospace industry but so far Mexico has not developed its own technology. At the beginning at this year, 2012, Mexico joined the Wassenaar Arrangement on export […]
Apple rethinking its strategy of where their manufacturing takes place
By Adina Moloman Source: CNN Money Apple CEO Tim Cook announced last week that the company would move some production of one of its existing lines of Mac computers from China to the United States. He mentioned about a small, almost a symbolic investment of 100 million in 2013 to move production of the line […]
Mexico IT emerging market
By Adina Moloman Source: Forbes During an event hosted by Mexico’s I.T. confederation, CANIETI, the possibility of Mexico becoming the second I.T. Nearshore Outsourcing industry was analyzed. According to Gartner, Inc. [1] global rankings, India holds the first place, Philippines holds the second place and Mexico the third one. In order to achieve this objective, […]
Mexico’s new president main proposals
By Adina Moloman Sources: Reuters, CNN Mexico inaugurated President Enrique Peña Nieto a few days ago, on Saturday, December 1, in Mexico City. Peña Nieto is a member of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the former governor of central Mexico state. This event marks the end of the Calderon’s term, where Mexico reached a good […]