Trump’s fees may make Mexico better again

By 2025, US President Donald Trump’s fees indicate an unprecedented threat to Mexico’s economy and manufacturing industry.

But the possibility of closing the door to the US market for vehicles, vehicle parts and other manufactured goods should be an awakened call for Mexico’s politicians and business leaders.

Mexico should focus on digital marketing, expanding local e-commerce sales and working to diversity from labor-intensive manufacturing, which is high-value added service exports in software design, engineering and technical support.

Apart from the commercial districts of Mexico, Monteri and Quadalajara, a visual reminder of the benefits of Mexico’s economy, which began with the entrance of Mexico during free trade and exported industrialization.

In 2023, Shipment is 36% In GDP of MexicoWith a comparable result of 2024. But by 2025, the Trump administration threatened new charges that could change the North American distribution chains and became Mexico’s most successful economic sector.

As of April 3, the vehicles exported from Mexico to the United States are subject to A 25% payment – type. OECD estimates that Mexico’s economy may shrink to 1.3% by 2025.

Mexico is expected to shrink by 2025, the International Monetary Fund Report shows

It is not clear whether global companies will continue to invest in Mexico when moving forward and exports to the United States with permanent new penalties.

Until this phase, Mexico has supported the Nainfta-periodic status. Nevertheless, the current moment gives President Shinbam an opportunity to switch towards an economic model, facing short -term external threats and establishing the country for long -term growth.

President Shinbams National Development Program for 2025-2030 Mexico promises to focus on transforming the center of “technology and novelty”, but it does not refer to the words “nearby showing” or “English”.

Overall, the Shinbam’s plan is more focused on improving highways and railways used to send body products outside the country, but the service sector is not yet to add exports. Trump’s fees offer a new motivation to Mexican companies that follow the successful examples of local companies such as Yubox and Yunoscar in focusing on the importance of high -value service exports.

Instead of specializing in providing low-cost workers for labor-intensive processes, Mexican companies must invest in exporting business services.

In fact, the clusters of service-rated companies are growing throughout Mexico. Thousands of English -speaking digital nomads are already living in distant and from cities like Mexico City and Quadalajara and elsewhere in Mexico.

Mexico has to do more to develop these types of economic activities locally.

A nationwide expansion university in Mexico city under the new decree

To support this change, Mexico’s federal government is significantly investing in education, especially targeting secondary education.

This motivation is aimed at preventing students from leaving before graduating and helping young people to develop technical and digital skills. The goal in Mexico should help you connect students with opportunities to gain professional skills in technical-sharp fields. Schools need to prepare students for digital future.

Many entrepreneurs in Mexico are already using e-commerce. Young professionals in Mexico can find ways to change how local businesses reach consumers, such as WhatsApp, Facebook and Dictok.

In 2023, the Ministry of Economic Development of Mexico (Setego) 33,000 partnership with Dictocado to training small business owners Strategies to create simple marketing videos to achieve large, target audiences quickly.

Young people also accept WhatsApp, the most popular social platform of Mexico. There are 65 million WhatsApp users in MexicoThe fifth highest total of any country in the world.

Transition from traditional advertising to digital equipment is changing the main driver of success for many growing businesses in Mexico. Shows a recent survey 75% of small and medium businesses in Mexico use social media for self -advertising.

The government and the private sector of Mexico should focus more on transforming digital marketing and the growing internal trade of Mexico should use the market. In 2024, E-commerce sales reached $ 38 billionAn increase of 20% over the previous year. Mexico should further promote its reputation as the world’s most important Spanish-speaking e-commerce market.

As the social media marketing for the Mexico trade advances, there is many more to increase English language skills.

Unfortunately, until now, Mexico has failed to focus on English language training into its educational system.

Education first (EF), an online educational institution, Mexico is the second worst country of Latin America for English scholarship And in 116 countries, as a whole, the total number of 87.

Despite the clusters of workers with good English skills in nearby centers such as Monteri and Quadalajara, the country is less likely to compete in global service markets.

At a time when the US market is threatened, entrepreneurs, administrators and economic development experts in Mexico need to celebrate and strengthen our country’s inner power business.

The Trump 2.0 era refers to a new high point for the political risk and uncertainty of traditional production in Mexico. But Mexico is ready to use this crisis to strengthen and modernize its economy by progressing towards export and online sales.

Jose Bachur is a Mexican e-commerce expert, he changed his initial success “Puritto” Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and Europe earns $ 20 million annually. In addition to leading digital strategies for major brands such as the Zei and Penguin Random House, Pachur started the bushineph during the Pandemic, and small businesses help to survive through digitalization.