The awakening of the Aztec tiger
Factories that had been moved to China are “reshoring” to Mexico, due to much lower transportation costs and no customs duties.
Mexican growth has already kicked in and by 2050 Mexico could be ranked 8 spots above Italy.
It’s a twenty-minute drive from San Diego to the border, practically ‘round the corner’ in any American city, although in this case there is a difference, because with Tijuana, its Mexican twin, it shares the busiest frontier post in the world – 50,000 cars and 25,000 pedestrians cross it every day. It’s 5 in the morning. The cars backed up in the 24 queues are moving ahead very slowly, like the long line of construction workers, nurses, porters and other Mexican workers crossing the border on foot.
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Factories that had been moved to China are “reshoring” to Mexico, due to much lower transportation costs and no customs duties.
Mexican growth has already kicked in and by 2050 Mexico could be ranked 8 spots above Italy.
It’s a twenty-minute drive from San Diego to the border, practically ‘round the corner’ in any American city, although in this case there is a difference, because with Tijuana, its Mexican twin, it shares the busiest frontier post in the world – 50,000 cars and 25,000 pedestrians cross it every day. It’s 5 in the morning. The cars backed up in the 24 queues are moving ahead very slowly, like the long line of construction workers, nurses, porters and other Mexican workers crossing the border on foot.
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