To take advantage of the opportunities that the increase in regional content in the automotive industry will bring to Mexican companies, as part of the T-MEC, a delegation of Mexican businessmen, mainly from the auto parts sector, visited their counterparts in Portugal last week.

“We focus, to a great extent, on a sector that is strategic for Jalisco, which is auto parts. Portugal is a country that has distinguished itself for having some of the most outstanding mold manufacturers in the world; they are the leaders in the production of molds,” the national vice president of the Mexican Council for Foreign Trade (Comce), Miguel Ángel Landeros, told El Economista.

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He explained that the intention is for the Portuguese molding companies to settle in Jalisco, which already has an industrial park specialized in the production of auto parts, in the municipality of Lagos de Moreno, adjacent to the states that make up the country's automotive submarket such as Guanajuato, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosí and Querétaro.

"In Los Altos de Jalisco, a cluster of auto parts is being generated, and that would contribute to generating better supply conditions to comply with the T-MEC," Landeros Volquarts stressed.

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In accordance with the provisions of the T-MEC, as of 2023, the regional content for the automotive industry installed in Mexico and that exports its vehicles to North America will increase to 75%, so the intention is to ensure that a greater number of companies established in Mexico can be inserted in the supply chain.

Another of the sectors of interest for Jalisco is agribusiness, in which they also detected important areas of opportunity, according to the president of Comce Occidente.

"The molds are also used to make boxes, pallets and many other products that the Mexican industry requires right now," he stressed.

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