For years, Mexico discussed customs as if they were physical gates: booths, ports, yards, lanes, checkpoints, terminals and counters. That interpretation is no longer enough. In the new global economy, a customs office is not merely the place where goods enter or leave a country; it is where a value chain gains time, loses trust or becomes too expensive to compete. Nearshoring changed the conversation. Companies no longer ask only about labor, industrial parks or proximity to
