Since returning to the White House in 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump has put the fentanyl crisis at the center of U.S. policy toward Latin America.
North American competitiveness and resilience to geopolitical and climate disruptions increasingly depend on whether the region can co-design and co-locate its digital and manufacturing supply chains, so they reinforce rather than constrain one another. This approach provides a new paradigm and framework, one based on “ring-fencing” supply chains. Alongside efforts to shift factories closer to home and secure physical inputs, it is equally important to create trusted rules and interoperable systems for data, cloud, and digital services that now sit inside every physical product, production infrastructure, and process.
1. Introduction The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), the Mexican Ministry of Economy, and the Canadian authorities formally launched public consultations in advance
Are the central bank and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador taking the right actions to spur the economy?
What does the failed China-Mexico rail deal mean for bilateral relations?
Latin American companies should look to China sooner rather than later.
Mexico’s government this month approved supporting secondary legislation that will provide additional direction for the country’s energy reforms.
China represents the world’s largest auto market, and in 2009 became the world’s leading auto producer.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s tour of Latin America this summer will be the first Japanese state visit to the region in a decade.
The Inter-American Dialogue recently launched an updated version of its China-Latin America Finance Database.
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