Thinking of a plant in Mexico?
探讨北美自由贸易协定（NAFTA）签署后，美国企业是否应赴墨西哥建厂，指出仅约10%的美墨合资工厂高效盈利，成功需尊重墨西哥文化习俗。
Executive Overview With the tripartite U.S./Canada/Mexico North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) now signed by the principals and approved by Congress, it will be of interest to see whether the dire prophecies about the impact of this treaty will come true. For example, it has been predicted that U.S. manufacturers will take advantage of low Mexican wage rates and move their operations wholesale to Mexico, and that Mexican industries such as textiles, paper, furniture, petrochemicals and auto parts will take a beating because of a flood of better-engineered American products coming to Mexico without tariffs. While we may reasonably expect that both predictions will come true to some degree, the important point is that many U.S. executives will not be considering a plant in Mexico. For efficient and profitable operations in Mexico, a U.S. company must work within Mexican behavioral expectations and avoid overbearing superiority. Only about ten percent of American maquiladoras1 are actually efficient and profitable by U.S. standards, according to Banco de Mexico. Many of the other maquiladoras manage to get by only because of low wage rates. In my view, maquiladora success and profitability would be more widespread if their parent companies and plant managers took Mexican values into consideration and were more sensitive to Mexican mores.