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Noi Mahoney Friday, September 13, 2019

Mexico suffers sharp drop in auto production, exports

Mexico, one of the biggest exporters of vehicles in the world, experienced a 12.7% drop in total vehicle exports in August from a year ago. Manufacturers shipped 281,811 units last month compared to 322,779 vehicles in August 2018, according to the Mexican National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) and the Mexican Association of the […]

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Noi Mahoney Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Record number of Mexican-made vehicles cross borders to be sold in North American, Asian markets

Mexican factories exported a record-breaking 1.74 million vehicles worldwide during the first six months of 2019.  The majority of those vehicles – 1.37 million – were shipped north across the border to the United States, according to data recently released by Mexico’s Asociacion Mexicana de la Industria Automotriz (AMIA).  “The United States remains, without a […]

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John Paul Hampstead Monday, June 18, 2018

Today’s Pickup: oil boom & tax cuts driving U.S. industrial expansion

Donald Broughton says that the oil boom and Trump tax cuts are driving a young industrial expansion cycle; shippers continue to adjust supply chains to minimize transport costs; Google invests $550M in Chinese e-commerce site JD.com; China may put a tariff on US oil imports; Brazil’s trucker strike shattered economic growth outlooks; Asia-North America container rates are softening.

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