Puebla, Pue. With the Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, the United States, and Canada (T-MEC), Puebla textile companies have an 80% chance of exporting to the United States, since they urgently require raw materials.
José Miguel Brito García Teruel, president of the National Association of Textile Entrepreneurs, acknowledged that only 50% of local companies have evidence in the foreign market, especially the neighboring country to the north, which should improve in this environment of economic recovery.
He argued that textiles have an important role in all productive areas, even in the automotive industry, where 35% of the interior of a vehicle has this material in cabling and seat covers, while in agribusiness there are geotextiles.
He admitted that factories of all kinds in the American Union are his main clients, for which the entrepreneurs of the textile sector must turn more to that market due to the increasing opening as a result of the T-MEC.
In an interview with El Economista, he cataloged the end of this year as positive, but that he predicted that 2022 will be better if control of the Covid-19 pandemic continues and over-demand continues, while the cost for containers of raw materials that come from other parts of the world.
He indicated that there are companies with a marked tendency to the foreign market and currently there is more participation due to the modernization of technology, which opens all the possibilities to be a supplier of any type of industry.
Brito García said that in 2020 the factories in the sector did not do well due to the health contingency, but as of this year the panorama has been changing to the extent that they are working in four shifts to remove the excess demand of orders from United States, which gives a guideline to recover jobs.
In this vein, he reiterated that foreign trade can help the full recovery of the industry that went through a downturn, to the point of losing 3,000 jobs.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx