The magazine that analyzes the power of Mexican municipalities in the economy, governance and Mexico's relationship with the world.

The year 2025 began at full throttle for the Jalisco–Texas corridor. In 2024, Texas–Mexico trade closed at $281.2 billion, with Mexico as Texas’ top export destination ($123.7 billion, 27% of the total) and also its largest source of imports ($157.5 billion). That volume translates into increasingly dense supply chains that are breaking records: in March 2025, cross-border freight between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada reached a historic high, 8.4% above March 2024. For Jalisco

In 2024, Mexico–United States trade reached $839.6 billion in goods; U.S. exports to Mexico grew by 3.2% and imports from Mexico by 6.9%. Within this framework, Texas is the hinge: it processed about 66% of all bilateral trade across the border and remained the country’s top exporting state, with $455 billion in shipments worldwide. Laredo ended the year as the number one port in the U.S. by trade value, at around $339 billion. These three figures explain why a Jalisco–Texas