Secretara de Economa

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Secretaría de Economía

• Supplying for the
• Maquiladora Industry

July, 2001
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Electric-Electronic Industrys Work Group
Objective   To coordinate actions to promote the
viability of the electric-electronic industry in
the long term.   Vision   The electric-electronic
industry is broad and competitive, based on an
developed support industry and with access to
goods, parts and components in competitive duty
conditions.
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Electric-Electronic Industrys Work Group
Members   ? Consejo Nacional de la Industria
Maquiladora de Exportación ? Asociación de la
Industria Maquiladora de Exportación de Tijuana,
A.C. ? Asociación de Maquiladoras y Exportadoras
de Chihuahua, A.C. ? Asociación de Maquiladoras
de Ciudad Juárez, A.C. ? Asociación de
Industrias Maquiladoras de Occidente de
Guadalajara, A.C. ? Japanese Maquiladora
Association ? Cámara Nacional de la Industria
Electrónica, de Telecomunicaciones e
Informática ? Cámara Nacional de Manufacturas
Eléctricas ? Cámara Japonesa de Comercio e
Industria de México, A.C. ? Japan External Trade
Organization ? Secretaría de Economía
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Electric-Electronic Industrys Work Group

• Strategy
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• ? To make sure the presence of joiner and
  manufacturing companies in Mexico
• ? To define a duty structure that allows the
  acquisition of goods, parts and components to
  competitive prices
• ? To establish conditions for the industrys
  development, particularly in the bigger
  concentration regions
• ? To develop the supporting industry in Mexico
• ? To sponsor established industries in the
  country with developments capacity to turn them
  in suppliers, in the link of the productive chain
  of their speciality
• ? To promote the establishment of foreign
  supplier companies in Mexico

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Electric-Electronic Industrys Work Group
Work Process   Work Subgroups will be formed to
attend specific topics. Each group will define a
critical route in order to accomplish their
activities and achieve objectives in determined
times.   The Electric-Electronic Industrys Work
Group as a team will gather together every three
months, or before if members wish it so.
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Electric-Electronic Industrys Work Group
Subgroups ? PROSEC ? Established suppliers in
Mexico ? Foreign Suppliers ? Baja
California ? Chihuahua ? Jalisco ? Technologica
l Development
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Electric-Electronic Industrys Work Group
Objectives of the Work Subgroups ? PROSEC ? To
permanently review the lists of PROSEC duty
codes, in order to make sure that the established
criteria be achieved. ? To adjust duty codes
lists in agreement with the results that the
other subgroups report. ? Established Suppliers
in Mexico ? To sponsor and follow the business
contacts between maquiladoras and established
suppliers in Mexico. Sections can be formed by
products speciality.
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Electric-Electronic Industrys Work Group

• Objectives of the Work Subgroups
• ? Foreign Suppliers
• ? To identify foreign suppliers that satisfy the
  maquiladoras needs in order to promote their
  establishment in Mexico
• ? Baja California / Chihuahua / Jalisco
• ? To make an analysis of the maquiladora industry
  in the region and proposals to ensure its
  viability in the long term
• ? Technological Development
• ? To make an analysis of the internal situation
  of the supplying companies and accomplish actions
  to technologically develop them and improve
  their productive capacity

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Supplying Format

• 41 formats have been presented, with information
  over supplying needs of classified products in
  124 duty codes, of the sectors
• Chemical 74 applications in 37 duty codes
• Capital goods 14 applications in 13 duty
  codes
• Mechanical Metal 15 applications in 11 duty
  codes
• Electronic 34 applications in 13 duty codes
• Electric 12 applications in 9 duty codes
• Plastic 10 applications in 6 duty codes
• Textile 11 applications in 10 duty codes
• Paper 9 applications in 6 duty codes
• Rubber, Wood,
• Glass, Iron and Steel Ind. 21 applications in
  19 duty codes

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Renewal of the Regla Octava

• ? Based on the information of the Formato para
  identificar necesidades de proveeduría, the
  Secretaría de Economía will sponsor contacts
  between the maquiladora industry and potential
  suppliers and will continue following the
  negotiations
• ? To be able to receive again the importation
  permission for Regla Octava, the maquiladora
  company has to prove that it indeed searched for
  established suppliers in the country, be it by
  the Secretaría de Economía or by its own means
• ? The proof will be the Formato de seguimiento de
  negociaciones de proveeduría nacional, where the
  process and result of the negotiations will be
  registered and will must be signed by
  representatives of both companies.