Mexico Offers Textile Industry Boost

Other measures include enhanced but precise (so as not to affect critical inputs) tariffs and less unpredictable customs enforcement. As former Congressman Salomon Rosas, now director of competitiveness and capabilities within Mexico’s secretariat of the economy, recently told Expansión magazine that he has been talking to the textile industry for 15 years and the complaint has been the same, that unfair competition from Chinese textile imports is what is keeping players from investing in machinery and innovation.

This amidst ever-increasing pressure to shore up and regionalize other important supply chains in North America, many of which include textile inputs (medical supplies, automotive, aerospace). Critical to facilitating this push for innovation in Mexico’s textile applications and industries will be not only Mexico ally organizations like CANAINTEX, ANIQ and COFOCE Guanajuato, but also input from and collaboration with North Carolina textile exporters. Stay tuned for updates from EDPNC on our upcoming textiles trade mission to Mexico City, Mexico State, and Queretaro and Guanajuato of the Bajio region. Meanwhile, below, we offer some numbers on the types of mills that are currently active in present in Mexico.

Census of Mexico Textile Mills by Activity