maquiladora


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an assembly plant in Mexico (near the United States border)

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In manufacturing the idea began to gain popularity when maquiladoras began popping up in Mexico in the 1960s.
Paraguay's laws regulating maquiladora activity date back to 1997, but they underwent changes in 2013 after Cartes took office (NotiSur, Oct.
Respecto al empleo que generan las empresas transnacionales instaladas en Tijuana es importante aclarar que no se cuenta con datos oficiales exclusivos para la industria maquiladora, toda vez que INEGI dejo de generar la Estadistica Mensual de Industria Maquiladora de Exportacion desde 2006.
Plasticos Promex is based in El Paso, TX and is known for producing plastic parts for a number of brands in the appliance, consumer, electronics, industrial, and lawn and garden industries in a wholly owned maquiladora in Juarez, Mexico.
In 1979, long before the beginning of the maquiladora boom of the 1990s, Dr Herbert Abrams, Emeritus Professor of Radiology at the Stanford School of Medicine, expressed his concern at a us-Mexico Border Health Association meeting in Reynosa, stating that "It is not difficult to see problems developing.
The Directory of the Maquiladora Industry of Baja California (2010) records that 65% of the industry of the electronics sector at state level is located in Tijuana.
Ya que ofrece una rica investigacion empirica para ahondar en el conocimiento acerca de que obtienen y que dejan de obtener las clases sociales, los generos, los grupos etnicos, las regiones en estos 40 anos de presencia de la maquiladora en Mexico.
Fierro noted, “Our maquiladoras can now generate their own 'pedimentos de importacion,' that's customs declarations in English.
It has been pointed out that corporate strategies in the maquiladora industry of Mexico have changed notably over the years.
Table 1 shows the increasing weight of maquiladora activity in Mexico's employment, gross domestic product, and exports in the 1990s.
The piece of paper she hands Cotta claims that she "intentionally brought harm to the business." She adds that in this maquiladora "technical shutdowns" happen each week.