Fashion and Decoration

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The textile and garment sectors, leather and footwear, jewelry and gift items, and decorative items and furniture integrate this concept. These industries seek to develop the image of Mexico as a generator of design and fashion. Since 2002, production plants of our country have specialized in the manufacture of products with higher added value, flexible production and shorter lead times, which contributed to record trade balance surplus in the making. Mexico has much strength in the textile and clothing, as is the use of the Free Trade Agreement with Central America and the Dominican Republic with the United States (CAFTA, for its acronym in English) through the implementation of origin accumulation. Our country has skilled manpower, strategic location with the United States, implementation of trade agreements with Europe and Japan, and zero rate of duty with the United States and Canada for exports to the NAFTA region. These commercial facilities have allowed the Mexican textile industry occupies the fifth position as a supplier in North America.

On the other hand, Mexico is the third largest producer of silver in the world and silver jewelry exports in 2007 were $ 100 million dollars. There are approximately 12 000 gifts and jewelry companies in the country, of which 12 percent are exporters. In the case of leather and footwear industries, exported more than $ 500 million. The main destination of exports in both industries is the United States. However, China and Hong Kong represent growing markets for the leather industry, while the footwear industry is diversifying into Japan and Europe. The manufacture of decorative items is very large in our country; its strengths are the design and use of new materials. The furniture industry is increasingly directed toward specialized niches such as hospitality; however, the wood furniture still has an important place in exports to the United States and Canada. In 2008 we exported 3 000 700 million dollars in home furnishings and furniture.

Textiles and clothing:

Products with the highest demand Products opportunity
Trousers Pants, shorts and skirts
Shirts and vests of cotton Fashionable shirts and sportswear
Pants man-made fibers for men Socks, sweaters and blouses
Sweaters man-made fibers Suits, coats and jackets
Cotton Socks Corsets and lingerie

 

Leather and Footwear:

Products with the highest demand Products opportunity
Boots and Lady Shoes
Other footwear Specialty shoes for diabetics
Footwear with outer soles of rubber Bespoke shoes
Hides grain splits Bovine leather tanning wet-blue "wet blue"
Hides-Full grains, unsplit Other tapes

 

Furniture:

Products with the highest demand Products opportunity
Other seats with wooden frames Metal furniture of a kind used in offices
Other seats with metal frames Swivel seats with height adjustable
Other furniture and parts Wooden furniture of kind used in kitchens
Seats, whether or not convertible into beds, and parts Plastic Furniture
Other metal furniture Workstations

 

Jewelry and gifts:

Products with the highest demand Products opportunity
Jewelry and parts thereof, of precious metal Ceramic tableware, other household articles
Clips of silver, whether coated or plated with other precious metal Articles of porcelain tableware and kitchen
Jewelry and parts thereof, of base metal clad with precious metal Statuettes and other ornamental ceramic articles
Candles, tapers and the like Glassware for table, kitchen, toilet, office or similar uses
Wood marquetry and inlaid wood, caskets and cases for jewelry or cutlery and similar Drawn glass and blown glass, in sheets