Mexico's Nearshoring Ceiling Is No Longer Theoretical
Nearshoring capital flows into Mexico while infrastructure, energy, and enforcement constraints block durable absorption.
Nearshoring / Mexico Industrialization · Emerging Pattern Candidate · contradiction
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Mexico's Industrial Ceiling Is Cracking Under Its Own Weight
Foreign direct investment continues to flow into Mexico at scale — but the infrastructure, energy, and legal foundations required to absorb it are not keeping pace. The contradiction is not subtle: capital is arriving in power-constrained corridors, fuel theft persists as a structural energy risk, and U.S. tariff refund mechanisms are simultaneously eroding the cost differential that made Mexico siting attractive in the first place. This is not a cycle problem. It is a structural ceiling becoming visible in real time.