Mexico offers a myriad of advantages for re-nearshoring manufacturing. The most obvious of such benefits are its 2,000-mile shared border with the United States, and the newly implemented US-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement. A low-cost labor country, Mexico offers strategic advantages in a plethora of industries seeking alternatives to Asian manufacturing. As relations between China and the West continue to deteriorate with tariffs, trade disputes and uncertainty over Taiwan, Mexico offers a relief from the decades long manufacturing addiction that Western firms have enjoyed in China. Upon the implementation of NAFTA in 1994, Mexico struggled with an underdeveloped manufacturing ecosystem in which efficiency, volume and quality were constant challenges for American and other Western firms attempting to outsource. Today, thanks to an integrated North American continent from nearly 30 years of free trade, Western firms enjoy mature and modernized manufacturing industries when exploring Mexico as an attractive nearshoring or “Friend-shoring” option.