Mexico brings together APEP countries to boost the semiconductor supply ecosystem / @SE_mx >>>
#SE.- On the 5th and 6th of this month, Mexico hosted the Second Symposium of the Alliance for Economic Prosperity in the Americas (APEP) “Building the supply ecosystem”, organized by the U.S. Department of State and the Ministry of Economy of the Federal Government.
At the first meeting, the Undersecretary of Industry and Trade, Othón Valverde, emphasized that Mexico will continue working to strengthen the semiconductor chain, an industry that offers a relevant opportunity for the development of the Welfare Poles.
He also assured that it is necessary to continue promoting this sector through an assembly, testing and packaging chain, and in the future attract other stages of the ecosystem such as the design and manufacture of microchips.
For their part, the Chief Economist of the U.S. State Department, Chad P. Bown, and Ambassador Lisa Kubiske mentioned that, in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the “Western Hemisphere Semiconductor Initiative CHIPS” was presented, which improves the capabilities of this sector in key partner countries such as Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama.
At the second meeting, the Undersecretary of Foreign Trade, Alejandro Encinas Nájera, stressed that micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are the backbone of the world’s economies and that they must be strengthened, integrated, financed and updated to meet the requirements of today’s economy, “without MSMEs there is no relocation”.
He commented that the Mexican government is promoting collaboration between academia, industry and research centers to take advantage of financing opportunities in the United States, focused on talent development, improvements in regulatory policies and the development of the supply chain.
Encinas Nájera shared views with the Vice Ministers of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica and Panama, Indiana Trejos and Carlos Hoyos, respectively, on the importance of working on complementarity to improve capabilities in the semiconductor chain in countries of the region to strengthen relocation in the hemisphere.
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