This is only going to continue. A strong and prosperous Mexico is a strategic win for the United States in a lot of different ways
Good, much better than buying shit directly from China either way - shorter supply loop, hybrid Mexican/Chinese expertise & quality control, this is why we want international relations really.
Over the years I've never really been disappointed with a made in Mexico part.
Only glass bottled sodas with real sugar I can find on the market, too. And their produce quality? My goodness.
How?
If some Americans I disagree with want fewer immigrants coming here, then a more stable Mexico would encourage Mexicans and other Spanish speaking immigrants to stay in Mexico. Mexicans wouldn't immigrate to the USA, and Guatemalans and so on would stop at stable and prosperous Mexico rather than making the further journey to the culturally estranged USA. Instead of building the wall, we'd make Mexico a net.
"Despite working long hours doing many times strenuous and dangerous work, maquila workers earn only 50 cents to 1 dollar per hour."
Covid showed that supply chains halfway across the world are a problem when there is a big disaster and a stronger Mexico could be a good partner for US immigration concerns. China having less influence is the cherry on top for em.
Logistics my man. It's easier and cheaper to walk down the street to get some milk than it is to get in your car, burn gas, drive for several miles, pick up the milk, then drive back. Mexico doing well is as good as Canada doing well. Strong neighbors are our biggest advantage.
The more robust legitimate economy Mexico builds for itself the less power the cartels have.
This is wonderful news for everyone involved except China
This is wonderful news for everyone that matters.
Who doesn’t matter?
James Corden
Jokes on them, Mexico is just selling shit they bought from China.
Mexico supplies us with a ton of produce. They have a great climate for growing year-round
Had.
No way. They import electronics from the place that sells cheap electronics?!
No but honestly Mexico being our produce supplier and then using that money to get better electronics to make more food sounds like such a big win for us even if it mildly benefits China.
Funny how US imports go down just as Mexico's go up. Almost like there might be a strategy to global economics.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports-from-china
Funny how US imports go down just as Mexico's go up.
You've linked two different graphs with timescales that don't match. If you zoom out the timescales, you can see US Chinese imports vary considerably throughout the year but are roughly level over 10 years. Meanwhile Mexico's Chinese imports have been on a predictable upward trajectory for over 20 years.
And neither of these independent variables gives us any information at all about Chinese goods being imported into the US via Mexico. This is as bad as someone sending that "what happened in 1971" page as evidence for something.
Apologies, try this-
This kind of shit happens in Canada all the time. A Canadian makes the packaging, puts the Chinese made thing in it and slaps a "made in Canada" sticker on it.
Is this due to tariffs? We just import China stuff via Mexico so suppliers can avoid tariffs?
Joke's* on them
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
In the depths of the pandemic, as global supply chains buckled and the cost of shipping a container to China soared nearly twentyfold, Marco Villarreal spied an opportunity.
He found a client in Hisun, a Chinese producer of all-terrain vehicles, which hired Mr. Villarreal to establish a $152 million manufacturing site in Saltillo, an industrial hub in northern Mexico.
New data released on Wednesday showed that Mexico outpaced China to become America’s top source of official imports for the first time in 20 years — a significant shift that highlights how increased tensions between Washington and Beijing are altering trade flows.
American consumers and businesses turned to Mexico, Europe, South Korea, India, Canada and Vietnam for auto parts, shoes, toys and raw materials.
U.S. imports fell annually as Americans bought less crude oil and chemicals and fewer consumer goods, including cellphones, clothes, camping gear, toys and furniture.
Even as concerns about the coronavirus faded in 2022, the United States continued to import a lot of Chinese products, as bottlenecks at congested U.S. ports finally cleared and businesses restocked their warehouses.
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Wow so according to the right, the rapists and terrorists are really good at manufacturing.
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