what are the gains for a us company doing business in Mexico?
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As with ANY business practices, there are Gains and Losses for doing business anywhere.\nYou may gain some cheaper labor so the product cost's are cheaper... (Manufacturing side)\nYou may gain extra sales you would not have had. (Sales)\nThere are many chances of gain, however, Mexico is a poor country.  Your product profit/cost margin will be substantially lower then it would in the US or Canada.\n\nAs stated, there is ALWAYS chances to take.  If you can sell a product and make a fortune at it, GO FOR IT.  If you are wanting to take a manufacturing level to Mexico, expect the Mexican government to want a part of the profit.\n\nGood Luck!
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You may be eligible for an E-2 investor visa. \n\nThese can be granted to the owner or developer of a new enterprise from a treaty country who has 50% or more ownership in a substantial US employment creating investment. \n\nAs a general rule substantial means $200,000 or more. Although smaller investments are often approved the risk of denial increases as one heads south of $200,000.
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The gains realized by a non-resident alien or foreign corporation from the sale of stocks and other securities is not subject to US tax.  The dividends are subject to 30% withholding unless the foreign person is a resident of a country that has a treaty with the US lowering the withholding rate.  See Section 871(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code.
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I doubt it. Investment in Mexico by US citizens is strictly limited. Mexico dose not want immigration from the US and has resisted any measures to affect the drug trade significantly.  La mordida still rules in Mexico. In fact, native Mexicans look down on their American Mexicans cousins. Ironic isn't it.
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If you take the people that are willing to work in Mexico or othe Central American countries and give them the opportunitty to be here and work here legally you are:\n1- Driving the price down on the products that they produce because they are willing to do the job that Americans will not do.\n2- If they are here legally they pay taxes.
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Well it depends. If you are talking about free market economies, then the market is the one that sets the exchange rate... its pure supply and demand. Let me give you an example.\n\nTake for instance what happened today to the exchange rate between the mexican peso and US dollar. Investors around the world are thinking that the Fed is going to hike up the intrest rates, making american investment more intresting than before. So what happens to the peso? Well, investors that have their money in the mexican stock market or in mexican currency start to convert their pesos to dollars to bring them back to the US to invest. Since more people are demanding dollar in exchange of pesos, the supply is forced to adjust prices. Basic economics, more demand for a good makes price go up... so the exchange rate pesos for dolar is affected negatively... inversly, demand of pesos for dollar goes down! This happens with all exchange rates out there. \n\nAnother example. The middle east used to quote and sell barrels of oil in us dollars. When some nations decided to use the euro instead of the dollar, the dollar for euros exchange rate went up, since less dollars were being demanded, and more euros were being demanded to buy the oil.\n\nThat is the free market exchange rate... now, there is also a theoretical echange rate that uses intrest rate from both countries to calculate the exchange rate. The actual exchange rate in the market may be diffrent from the theoretical one, showing an over or under-valuation of a currency, depending on the difference.\n\nCurrencies that come from closed economies may have a fixed exchange rate, regulated by goverment. On this examples, the currency from the not opened economy might be overvalued by goverment fixing to protect certain intrests... sooner or later, the countries reserves mught not hold, and a hard depreciation of the currency is bounded to happen.\n\nHope i explained myself... kind of late and im almost ready for bed. Any more questions, feel free to email me!\n\nGood luck!
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Pancah let me give you some numbers\n\n*$136 billion dollars worth US jobs are send to different countries and still corporations getting tax cuts\n*Human Trffcking is a billion dollar business acrcoss US- Mexico border. These dollars are not taxable.\n*Govt cost towards illegal immigrants $7.2 Billion/per yer\n*Economy gains $20 Billion/per year from illegal immigrants\n\nSo i can only show the gain.
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i knew a company in Taiwan that sold some goods to a USA company for about 40k USD. the USA company did not pay. they traveled to north carolina and took that company to court in the USA. the judge threw the case out because he said the Taiwan company did not have a USA office and they had no rights in the USA. but that was that case. yours maybe different.
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Actually, there are some places in Mexico with large numbers of U.S. expatriates. If I remember correctly, in Mexicali, or in some other part of Baja California, there is a large community of retirees from the U.S. They go there, because the climate is pleasant and because the cost of living is low.
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No -- absolutely not. What are you thinking????\n\nNon-Mexican's can not buy property in Mexico. Who will be your property buyers?\n\nSign up for the Motley Fool Investment email newsletter. They say those of us who are not yet millionaires should be invested in a Mutual Fund until we are.\n\nAlso, you can buy a beat up house in your area, fix it up and sell it for a profit then buy another one. The goal is to grow your money right?\n\nKeep your money growing for you at home.
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Mexico has a free market economy that recently entered the trillion dollar class. It contains a mixture of modern and outmoded industry and agriculture, increasingly dominated by the private sector. Recent administrations have expanded competition in seaports, railroads, telecommunications, electricity generation, natural gas distribution, and airports. Per capita income is one-fourth that of the US; income distribution remains highly unequal. Trade with the US and Canada has tripled since the implementation of NAFTA in 1994. Mexico has 12 free trade agreements with over 40 countries including, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, the European Free Trade Area, and Japan, putting more than 90% of trade under free trade agreements. The Fox administration is cognizant of the need to upgrade infrastructure, modernize the tax system and labor laws, and allow private investment in the energy sector, but has been unable to win the support of the opposition-led Congress. The next government that takes office in December 2006 will confront the same challenges of boosting economic growth, improving Mexico's international competitiveness, and reducing poverty.
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Here's the thing...the US bought a huge chunk of the Southwest from Mexico in the first place.  If they want it back, I suggest they break out the check-book.
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NYMEX.com would be a good start....
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The US doesn't tax the first $80,000 earned outside the US and no, Mexico doesn't tax that income.
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it has less to do with the government than it does with big business and citizens. if mexicans can find higher paying wages in the US and get the US dollar which is stronger than the Peso, why would you care if big companies were in Mexico. Of course, there are plenty of Mexicans that would love a jobe in their home  country even though it pays less than the same job in the US. Thats where big biz comes in. The cost of hiring and maintaining a work force in Mexico is significantly higher than in China because China has so many fewer laws preventing abuse. In addition, you can pay workers in China far less because they can't hop the border into the US and find the same job that pays double. Make sense!
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If the illegal alien is getting paid cash to undercut the competitor's bid, then how does the corporation account for the expenditures? Where did the money go? \n(10,000$ toilet for remodeling of the employee break room)
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Mexico, and ultimately the United States (we got land later) benefited. Spain lost out.