A note on AMLO

by | Jul 2, 2018 | Blog

This is for our colleagues north of the border interested in our perspective on the election of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as President of Mexico. Yesterday AMLO won the Mexican Presidency by a large margin, 30%, and by all accounts fairly. He was up against 3 other...

The news malls of Mexico City

by | Jan 12, 2016 | Blog

I’m usually looking for little microcosms of news to help me better express what I mean when I speak on aspects of the Mexican business landscape. Well here is one I found today, published by one of my favorite magazine groups, Expansion, through its...

Energy Reforms and Manufacturing in Mexico

by | Jan 6, 2016 | Blog

Lots of perspectives and commentary swirls around the 2013 Energy Reforms in Mexico. The Reforms permit more private participation in the production of both Oil and Gas and Electricity, plus in some cases greater downstream support by the private sector. The bylaws...

Customs / Aduanas / Freight Forwarding

by | Apr 8, 2015 | Blog

We’ve only interacted with Mexican customs (aside from personally at the airport) through brokers… FedEx’s brokers, UPS’s brokers, Mailboxes Etc’s brokers, the freight forwarder Expeditors, but also some independent brokers. In terms of getting our shipments through,...

What are your expectations for Mexico?

by | Sep 17, 2014 | Blog

Many of our clients have already expanded into other countries, or even entered Mexico already, before they come to us, but a large share are also completely new to exporting. Some have conducted analysis about how to prioritize international marketing, and different...

Some Notes On Driving

by | Jul 3, 2014 | Blog

How’s this for a first blog post? Welcome! I just took a client in the metalworking sector to visit several buyers in the Queretaro and San Luis Potosi automotive clusters. We had some good visits, but the takeaway for me was that it’s a lot slower driving in the...