Deutschland Mexiko

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Field Note: Is Mexico more digitalised than Germany?

Jul 2, 2026

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10 min read

Field Note: Is Mexico more digitalised than Germany?

Not overall. But yes on the two things you operate through: how money moves and how the state is dealt with.

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Taiwan

Issue 12: Are You Ready for the Change of Tides in the Trade Balance?

Jun 30, 2026

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15 min read

Issue 12: Are You Ready for the Change of Tides in the Trade Balance?

Computing passes cars as Mexico's top export. Mexico's imports from Taiwan surge 283 percent, pushing Taiwan far past Germany as a supplier. New German job vacancies at a 25-year low while auto suppliers bleed fastest. The VW Group reportedly weighing German plant closures the same week Audi workers in Puebla win a raise. Aguascalientes foreign investment and where Germany ranks. Döhler's expansion into Estado de México. The EU-Mexico vote clears committee in Brussels. And what US negotiators want from auto content.

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Field notes

Field Note: Around 120,000 German jobs gone in a year. We were told the work moved abroad. Abroad doesn't show it either.

Jun 25, 2026

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3 min read

Field Note: Around 120,000 German jobs gone in a year. We were told the work moved abroad. Abroad doesn't show it either.

German manufacturing job losses, the offshoring story used to explain them, and the destinations that can't account for the missing workers.

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Field Note: Wage Paradox Part 4: The entire business case for nearshoring

Jun 18, 2026

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11 min read

Field Note: Wage Paradox Part 4: The entire business case for nearshoring

Mexicans are the affordable ones, not the Germans. So are German workers more productive, or just more expensive to employ?

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Field Note: ⚽World Cup edition - Mexico is hosting the World Cup. Most Mexicans will watch it from outside.

Jun 11, 2026

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9 min read

Field Note: ⚽World Cup edition - Mexico is hosting the World Cup. Most Mexicans will watch it from outside.

Twenty days after signing the Modernised Global Agreement (MGA) , Mexico opens a tournament where a stadium beer costs a day of minimum wage, a visitor spends a local monthly salary per day, and FIFA keeps the core revenue. For six weeks, the cameras become due diligence Mexico does not control.

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Offshoring

Issue 9: One Country, Five Doors. Here Is Where the Next Investments Land

Jun 9, 2026

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11 min read

Issue 9: One Country, Five Doors. Here Is Where the Next Investments Land

Germany sent its foreign minister. Spain sent capital. Belgium took the port. Five European countries moved on Mexico in one fortnight. Each reached for a different layer. The next FDI wave looks more chemical than automotive. Plus: the Spanish investment stock, the Veracruz expansion and why Washington's pressure is doing Europe a favour.

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Field Note: Mexico's Wage Paradox, Part 3 - The Benefits Germany Stopped Paying For

Jun 4, 2026

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12 min read

Field Note: Mexico's Wage Paradox, Part 3 - The Benefits Germany Stopped Paying For

Why a German and a Mexican compensation package are built on opposite logic: where each puts health insurance, pension, vacation and profit sharing, and why comparing the two salaries tells you almost nothing.

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Germany

Issue 8: Washington is squeezing Mexico from the north. What does that mean for the Europeans who just moved in?

Jun 2, 2026

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13 min read

Issue 8: Washington is squeezing Mexico from the north. What does that mean for the Europeans who just moved in?

The USMCA review opens July 1 with the tariffs still on, Banxico cuts its growth forecast to 1.1%, a $1.2 billion European pharma wave lands and a ratings split puts Mexico’s credit on trial. The risks, read from the European side.

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Field Note: Mexico’s Wage Paradox, Part 2- What the Wage Actually Buys

May 29, 2026

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14 min read

Field Note: Mexico’s Wage Paradox, Part 2- What the Wage Actually Buys

Mexico is not as cheap as we believe, and Germany is not as expensive as it seems.

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EU-Mexico Trade

Issue 7: Two downgrades, one signature, one looming review

May 26, 2026

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12 min read

Issue 7: Two downgrades, one signature, one looming review

Mexico signed with the EU, got downgraded by Moody's and prepared for a USMCA review that nobody expects to end cleanly. All in five days.

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Field Note + Free Guide: What the new EU-Mexico trade agreement means in practice

May 21, 2026

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2 min read

Field Note + Free Guide: What the new EU-Mexico trade agreement means in practice

Practical steps to follow, requirements to check and what to do next.

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Field note: Mexico's Wage Paradox - Part 1 - The Numbers That Don't Add Up

May 14, 2026

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9 min read

Field note: Mexico's Wage Paradox - Part 1 - The Numbers That Don't Add Up

Mexico is still cheap enough to sell. But the wage trajectory is no longer stable enough to ignore.

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Germany

Issue 5: Mexico Is Running Three Clocks. Will It Still Miss the Alarm?

May 12, 2026

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20 min read

Issue 5: Mexico Is Running Three Clocks. Will It Still Miss the Alarm?

USMCA 2026, the EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement and Plan México Acciones are converging in the same window. Mexico has the access. The question is whether it can keep more of the value.

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Field Note + Free Guide: Germans and Mexicans Vol. 4 - Efficiency Requires More Than Translating Words

May 8, 2026

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14 min read

Field Note + Free Guide: Germans and Mexicans Vol. 4 - Efficiency Requires More Than Translating Words

The Germany-Mexico corridor breaks when companies translate language but not the operating system.

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Germany

Issue 4: Mexico’s Nearshoring Boom Is Becoming a Querétaro Story

May 4, 2026

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14 min read

Issue 4: Mexico’s Nearshoring Boom Is Becoming a Querétaro Story

Mexico’s economy contracted. Germany’s labor market weakened. Yet Siemens, Brose, Liebherr, Hansa-Flex and Vibracoustic kept moving deeper into Querétaro and the Bajío.

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Cybersecurity

Issue 3: More than $6 billion in US cloud infrastructure landed in Mexico. German multinationals run their operations on it. Their GDPR risk maps may not have caught up.

Apr 28, 2026

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15 min read

Issue 3: More than $6 billion in US cloud infrastructure landed in Mexico. German multinationals run their operations on it. Their GDPR risk maps may not have caught up.

The corridor is not just automotive and logistics anymore. It is data, AI, and competing legal jurisdictions. The policies are years behind the infrastructure.

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Field Note: Cybersecurity belongs in TLCUEM. So far, nobody is demanding it.

Apr 25, 2026

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2 min read

Field Note: Cybersecurity belongs in TLCUEM. So far, nobody is demanding it.

The breach already happened. The exposure for German firms is still ongoing.

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Field Note: The FTA Series — The last deal was worth 4x less than the one being signed.

Apr 24, 2026

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3 min read

Field Note: The FTA Series — The last deal was worth 4x less than the one being signed.

The deal has not been signed. Players are already moving.

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Field Note: Germans and Mexicans Vol. 2 - Similarities and Shared Values

Apr 23, 2026

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8 min read

Field Note: Germans and Mexicans Vol. 2 - Similarities and Shared Values

The parallels nobody teaches you in business school.

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DACH

Issue 2: Hannover Messe is celebrating Brazil. Mexico signs with the EU in six weeks. Has anyone in that hall noticed?

Apr 21, 2026

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15 min read

Issue 2: Hannover Messe is celebrating Brazil. Mexico signs with the EU in six weeks. Has anyone in that hall noticed?

Chinese automakers outsold German brands in Mexico last month. With higher tariffs. The EU deal has not even been signed yet.

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Field Note: The EU-Mexico deal has a date. German companies don't have a plan.

Apr 19, 2026

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2 min read

Field Note: The EU-Mexico deal has a date. German companies don't have a plan.

Signing is scheduled for end of May. Tariffs on cars, machinery and pharmaceuticals go to zero. The preparation window is shorter than most executives think.

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Field Note: Germans and Mexicans at Work

Apr 17, 2026

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4 min read

Field Note: Germans and Mexicans at Work

Myths and Realities, Vol. 1

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Apr 15, 2026

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3 min read

Field Note: Mexico, Germany and AI.

Germany’s tech talent crisis has a LATAM fix nobody is talking about.

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DACH

Apr 14, 2026

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14 min read

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Intelligence for the Germany-Mexico Corridor

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Deutschland Mexiko

Field Note: Is Mexico more digitalised than Germany?

Issue 12: Are You Ready for the Change of Tides in the Trade Balance?

Field Note: Around 120,000 German jobs gone in a year. We were told the work moved abroad. Abroad doesn't show it either.

Field Note: Wage Paradox Part 4: The entire business case for nearshoring

Field Note: ⚽World Cup edition - Mexico is hosting the World Cup. Most Mexicans will watch it from outside.

Issue 9: One Country, Five Doors. Here Is Where the Next Investments Land

Field Note: Mexico's Wage Paradox, Part 3 - The Benefits Germany Stopped Paying For

Issue 8: Washington is squeezing Mexico from the north. What does that mean for the Europeans who just moved in?

Field Note: Mexico’s Wage Paradox, Part 2- What the Wage Actually Buys

Issue 7: Two downgrades, one signature, one looming review

Field Note + Free Guide: What the new EU-Mexico trade agreement means in practice

Field note: Mexico's Wage Paradox - Part 1 - The Numbers That Don't Add Up

Issue 5: Mexico Is Running Three Clocks. Will It Still Miss the Alarm?

Field Note + Free Guide: Germans and Mexicans Vol. 4 - Efficiency Requires More Than Translating Words

Issue 4: Mexico’s Nearshoring Boom Is Becoming a Querétaro Story

Issue 3: More than $6 billion in US cloud infrastructure landed in Mexico. German multinationals run their operations on it. Their GDPR risk maps may not have caught up.

Field Note: Cybersecurity belongs in TLCUEM. So far, nobody is demanding it.

Field Note: The FTA Series — The last deal was worth 4x less than the one being signed.

Field Note: Germans and Mexicans Vol. 2 - Similarities and Shared Values

Issue 2: Hannover Messe is celebrating Brazil. Mexico signs with the EU in six weeks. Has anyone in that hall noticed?

Field Note: The EU-Mexico deal has a date. German companies don't have a plan.

Field Note: Germans and Mexicans at Work

Field Note: Mexico, Germany and AI.

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