The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) catapulted the border assembly plants, but it did not prepare the industry for the reversals in the global economy.
“ Even though 64 percent of the city depends on the export-assembly industry, only 2.5 percent of the plants’ supplies are Mexican,” he explains.
She has been walking around the industrial park closest to the border all day to see if she gets lucky.
The Asian country competes with Mexico’s assembly industry but the Latin American nation continues to have an economic edge because of the border with the United States.
Juárez got the rougher side of the deal: hundreds of factories with thousands of workers who assemble products for sale in the north, on the other side where the skyscrapers stand.
Fuente original: Mexico-US trade relations: The economic border not even Donald Trump can block | In English | EL PAÍS
