Helping You in Establishing and Doing Business in Mexico
TACNA provides professional Mexico focused consultation services to non-Mexican companies who are exploring the feasibility of manufacturing or otherwise doing business in Mexico, often as a Maquiladora. Our top three U.S. and Mexican based professionals alone have more than 60 years of experience in consultation and doing business in Mexico. This experience allows you a flawless quick startup. Whether you are seeking to establish a startup or move a 100 year old business, we can help.
Our Mexico Business Consultation Approach
Each consultation engagement is custom fit to your needs. We sit down in a planning session to plan the engagement scope and agree to a fee that fits your budget. We often do our work in phases. This phased approach allows you to control your costs and budget your expenditures as you evaluate the opportunity. There is never a commitment beyond the agreed fee.
Outcome Goals from our consultation:
Create a significant knowledge transfer to you and your organization
Arm you with the facts
Assist you in determining feasibility
Lower your risks through our knowledge and experience
Take away the unknowns
Give you the confidence to make the right decision
Help you communicate the facts to other decision makers, as necessary.
Menu of Services:
Among others, our menu of services includes
Front end feasibility study tailored to your specifics
Visits to operating Maquiladora operations to see first hand how it works and to have a discussion with on site managers.
Visit to your facility to consider the implications of a move
Permits required
Consultation on environmental regulation
Site location analysis
Determining the right geography
Build vs. buy analysis
Visits to available buildings
Review of local infrastructure
Power and other utility considerations
Mexico Human Resources
Understanding the skill base of the labor pool
Sourcing English speaking managers
Sourcing mid level managers and laborers
Laws and regulations
Customs and cultural issues
Establishing relationships with technical schools to source talent
Training the workforce quickly
Human resource issues-existing operations
Communicating the change-How and when
Dealing with local press coverage
Helping long-term employees transition
Retaining key talent in the transition
Planning the supply chain for material flows
Sourcing some items in Mexico
Evaluation of logistics
Transportation availability and cost
Transit time analysis
Managing customer orders in the transition
Building and maintaining the right safety stock
Mexican import analysis
Tariffs and duties
Product classification
Rules of origin
Work visas
U.S. Customs and Immigration analysis
Identification and selection of U.S. and Mexican broker
Mexico taxation issues
Value added taxes
Asset tax
Tax on statutory profits
Employer taxes
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Implications
Introductions to Government and other professionals
Types of companies who have successfully established operations in Mexico
Client Profile
We have served clients of all sizes from global 1000 companies to start ups. Our most common client is a smaller to medium sized business looking to move between 50 to a few hundred positions to Mexico. We are equipped to assist companies of all sizes.
Our Team
We have a team of over 35 people in the U.S. and Mexico working full time helping companies succeed in Mexico. Our top three professionals alone have more than 60 years of experience consulting with companies and helping them operate in Mexico. We are well connected in Mexico and the U.S. with the proper government agencies and others to get things done expeditiously within the law. Our core competencies are in:
Our Fee Structure
Our fees are dependent upon the service offering utilized. We typically sit down with you on the front end and jointly develop a project timeline and objectives, then agree to a fee based upon those objectives. We attempt to work within your budget to provide you a maximum of value for the fees paid.
Some clients choose to use our longer term administrative services or our shelter services. In such cases credits can be arranged for a portion of the initial fees paid. For more information about us, see About TACNA.
Contact Us
For a no cost initial confidential discussion, contact Ross Baldwin at (619)-661-1261 x103 or e-mail us at professionalservices@tacna.net We will not misuse your e-mail address in any way.