2007-11-26 09:38:08 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Corporations
export oriented manufacturing plants located in the northern border states of Mexico. Their business is/was exporting products made by Mexican workers to the US.
Maquiladoras are having a rough patch -- it seems that Chinese labor is enough cheaper that some of them have closed due to competition.
Of ocurse, when they do, that adds another few thousand workers to the hordes who are coming to the US looking for work.
does this help?
2007-11-26 09:49:46 · answer #1 · answered by Spock (rhp) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Factories. They are located mostly on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border. They make everything from refrigerators to TVs to cars there, and then ship them to the US (just a few miles by semi).
They are there because the labor is cheap, there are no unions, and they are close to the US so the cost of shipping is low.
2007-11-26 09:47:16 · answer #2 · answered by scottclear 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋