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“What will be the main idea, the main design of that route?”
Ebrard said. "To mobilize all legitimate interests in favor of
North America.”
For example, he said it will be in Mexico’s own interest to
welcome nearshoring, which tends to move production from plants
in Asia to Mexico.
“Our second most important mission is to accelerate nearshoring,
to take advantage of it one thousand percent,” Ebrard said.
He said Mexico’s domestic content in manufacturing exports is
currently less than 20%, and that Mexican officials are looking
at “how we can reduce all the imports we have, that is, to
increase domestic content in any way we can.”
He said the government would be working with individual
companies to get suppliers and parts producers to also move to
Mexico.
“Our mission is not just to increase our market share, but to
increase what is produced in Mexico,” Ebrard said. “By
necessity, we have to work with each company, we have to
dedicate funding, personnel, perseverance and follow-up, to get
those numbers up.”
Mexico once largely exported oil to the United States, but now
manufacturing exports of products like cars, trucks, machinery
and appliances dwarf the oil trade.
In 2023, for the first time in more than two decades, Mexico
displaced China as the leading supplier of imported products to
the U.S. market.
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