MXPE Weekly Essentials

Nissan’s Mexican standoff, wasting a cocoa boom, Trump’s ambassador focuses on positives, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.

“Well, they’ll just lose the Mexican market.” It may have been a sanguine answer from the Mexican president when Nissan suggested it might move production out of the country after Trump’s tariff threats. In reality it was the beginning of a Mexican standoff.

Nissan is in a trickier situation than most manufacturers, because Mexico isn’t just a production hub, it is a crucial market that it cannot afford to lose.