{"id":266992,"date":"2025-03-20T08:13:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T07:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/?p=266992"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T08:40:32","slug":"es-posible-que-byd-no-construya-una-fabrica-en-mexico-despues-de-todo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2025\/03\/20\/byd-may-not-built-factory-in-mexico-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"BYD podr\u00eda no construir una f\u00e1brica en M\u00e9xico despu\u00e9s de todo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

As the Financial Times <\/em>reports, citing two people familiar with the matter, there are other reasons why Beijing could be against a Chinese carmaker setting up production in Mexico. On a side note: BYD needs permission from the Chinese government to do so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One aspect is that China prefers projects set up in countries along its Belt and Road route. However, \u201cthe commerce ministry\u2019s biggest concern is Mexico\u2019s proximity to the US,\u201d one of the people told the FT<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US administration has accused Mexico of being a back door for goods from China amid the growing trade dispute<\/a> between the US and both countries. Washington imposed additional tariffs on goods from China and also from Mexico. However, in the case of the latter, the automotive industry is exempt <\/a>– at least for now. And as Mexico is trying to stay in US President Trump’s good graces, China fears that too much information concerning its own carmakers could leak across the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMexico\u2019s new government has taken a hostile attitude towards Chinese companies, making the situation even more challenging for BYD,\u201d the second insider told the FT<\/em>. It would not be the first time that Mexico has come under pressure from the US concerning China. About a year ago,<\/a> the country scrapped incentives for Chinese carmakers building factories there.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Nevertheless, BYD has been known to increasingly focus on Mexico, aiming to sell 100,000 electric cars there this year – compared to a target of 50,000 EVs for 2024. Plans for a BYD production facility first emerged in early 2024,<\/a> with BYD saying that it would create around 10,000 jobs and produce some 150,000 vehicles there per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is still not clear whether or not BYD even intends to go through with the plans – provided it gets the green light from Beijing. According to Mexico\u2019s President Claudia Sheinbaum, there was still no firm proposal from the carmaker. BYD’s executive Vice President Stella Li said earlier that the carmaker had \u201cnot decided [on] the Mexico facility yet.\u201d Initially, it wanted to announce the factory’s location by the end of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US, Canada, and Mexico form the NAFTA free trade region, meaning BYD could import its cars built in Mexico into the US and Canada duty-free. At least theoretically, as tariffs imposed by US President Trump could change that narrative. Under the previous administration, the US raised customs duties on electric vehicles from China from 25 per cent to 100 per cent, and Canada<\/a> followed suit. In June 2024<\/a>, BYD said it would not come to the US as \u201cit is very complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ft.com<\/a>, cnevpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Como informa el Financial Times, citando a dos personas familiarizadas con el asunto, hay otras razones por las que Pek\u00edn podr\u00eda oponerse a que un fabricante de autom\u00f3viles chino establezca su producci\u00f3n<\/p>","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":226135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9935],"tags":[3701,80,98,6304,12102],"class_list":["post-266992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-bev","tag-byd","tag-china","tag-mexico","tag-north-america"],"acf":{"post_article-format":{"value":"standard","label":"Standard"},"post_categories":[9935],"post_tags":[80,98,6304,3701,12102],"post_thumbnail":226135,"post_thumbnail_listing":false,"post_thumbnail-caption":"","post_teaser-text":"China has apparently delayed the approval for the construction of BYD's Mexican plant. Chinese authorities fear that Mexico could gain unrestricted access to BYD's advanced technology and know-how, and potentially share it with the US.","post_advert":false,"post_legacy":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267002,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266992\/revisions\/267002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}