Tag: Mexico

March 19, 2024

In December U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Tom Cotton (R-AR) and a dozen other colleagues sent a letter to the Biden administration’s national security advisor alleging Mexico, in breach of a trade deal it reached with the United States in […]

February 8, 2024

For the first time in more than two decades, the United States imported more goods from Mexico than China, Census data revealed on Wednesday. This apparent world trade transformation, along with news of a more than 10% reduction in the […]

December 14, 2023

A surge in steel imports from Mexico hasn’t gone unnoticed by members of the U.S. Senate. Fourteen of them, led by Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), are urging the Biden administration to press the Mexican government to adhere […]

January 13, 2023

President Biden went down Mexico way this week for a North American leaders summit with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and Canadian President Justin Trudeau, where they pledged to work together to forge stronger regional supply chains. Then […]

September 13, 2022

Mexico and the United States plan to take advantage of the Biden administration’s massive investment in semiconductor production to push the integration of their supply chains and cooperate on expanding the production of electric vehicles through Mexico’s nationalized lithium industry, […]

October 6, 2021

Volkswagen will extend a production stop at one of its segments in a plant at the central state of Puebla that produces the Jetta model from Oct. 6 to 15, a labor union document showed on Tuesday. It comes as […]

August 25, 2021

Mexico is warning that the U.S. interpretation of the revamped North American free trade deal that also includes Canada could push automakers to abandon the region due to cumbersome and costly content requirements. Luz Maria de la Mora, Mexico’s undersecretary […]

May 13, 2020

As automakers prepare to restart U.S. manufacturing, potential parts shortages south of the border appear to have been diverted. Some Mexican auto factories are due to open as soon as Monday, in line with large U.S. assembly plants for the […]

May 6, 2020

MEXICO CITY, May 6 (Reuters) – Workers at a Lear Corp. auto parts plant in northern Mexico that saw the worst-known coronavirus outbreak of any factory in the Americas are now bracing to be sent back to work. They just […]

April 17, 2020

As President Donald Trump and his economic advisers look to start reopening the U.S. economy in May, a central question is emerging for companies with supply chains stretching across North America: What if Mexico and Canada don’t have the same […]

June 22, 2018

Just as U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening tariffs on imported autos, General Motors Co. plans to resurrect the Chevrolet Blazer, this time as a sleeker sport utility vehicle — made in Mexico. The new mid-size model — bigger than […]

May 9, 2017

Mexico’s auto exports rose 16 percent in April compared with the same month a year earlier, and output was up 3.2 percent, the Mexican Auto Industry Association (AMIA) said on Monday. Mexico exported 228,810 vehicles and produced 278,173 vehicles in […]

February 3, 2017

Delphi Automotive said that if it brings any manufacturing to the U.S. from Mexico, it is likely to be automated work, which has fewer jobs attached to it. Joe Massaro, Delphi chief financial officer, said that 90 percent of the […]

January 17, 2017

Ford Motor Co. is working on a plan to compensate parts makers that were preparing to supply the plant the company canceled last week and will return the land to the government of Mexico, an executive said. The foundation was […]

January 10, 2017

As I fly back from a few days visiting manufacturing facilities in Mexico, I wanted to share three things I learned on the trip: Déjà vu – Parallel Between IT/India and Manufacturing/Mexico Companies are investing heavily in manufacturing in Mexico. […]

January 9, 2017

President-elect Donald Trump praised Ford Motor Co. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles for announcing new investments in the U.S. after he made U.S. auto production a key part of his campaign. Ford announced last week it would abandon plans to build […]

November 21, 2016

President-Elect Donald Trump’s promise to keep jobs in America is already bearing fruit, or so it would appear by his announcement Thursday night — on Twitter, of course — that Ford would not be moving some vehicle production to Mexico. “Just […]

October 7, 2016

Light-vehicle sales in Mexico rose 18 percent in September to 131,443 vehicles, shattering previous records for the month and defying expectations that the market would cool off this year after a record 2015. Sales through September this year have increased […]

October 3, 2016

After nearly four years of preparation after the site was selected, Audi AG officially opened its new assembly plant here to produce Q5 crossovers for global export. The $1.3 billion factory will have capacity to churn out 150,000 Q5 crossovers […]

June 17, 2016

A Mexico City-based automotive supplier plans to invest $54 million to establish a manufacturing plant and U.S. headquarters in suburban Detroit, the Michigan Economic Development Corp. said Thursday. Tremec Corp., a unit of Kuo Group, plans to lease and equip […]