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Business corridor
United States ↔ Mexico
Doing business between the United States and Mexico means getting market access, tax, contracts, people and regulation right on both sides. WONE Global coordinates the work in both countries, so one team keeps it joined up.
New York · Tuesday 3 November
13:03
Local time
Shared working hours
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Mexico City · Tuesday 3 November
12:03
Local time
Worked example
A common move on this corridor, both sides
A step-by-step example of a common project between the United States and Mexico: the rules in each country, the usual structures and the questions to ask your advisers.
How the work runs on both sides
A worked journey for this corridor
What has to happen in each country, in what order, and what one side changes for the other, with the sources for each step.
- A US manufacturer sets up a nearshore plant in Mexico →A US manufacturer sets up a Mexican subsidiary to run a production plant that imports components, manufactures or assembles goods and ships most of the output back to the United States. It must meet US tax, reporting, trade and export cont… 12 steps · 6 workstreams · 40 sourced statements
Key questions
Questions this corridor raises
- 01What is the commercial objective on each side of the corridor?
- 02Which entities, contracts or licences are required?
- 03How will money, people, goods or data move between the markets?
- 04Which capabilities need to be coordinated rather than handled separately?
Typical work
Work that moves along this corridor
Market accessCapital & transactionsTrade & supply chainPeople & operations
Tax, legal, people and money questions on one side change the answer on the other. WONE Global plans the work in both countries together before anything starts.
Partner firms
Who handles each service, in both markets
Named WONE Global leads where they exist; everything else arranged by WONE Global on request, with the name confirmed before work begins.
WONE Global Partners
Professionals on both sides
South Carolina · United States
Mexico City · MexicoWONE Global Partner · Mexico
Marco Antonio Bernal Munguia
Mexico City · MexicoWONE Global Partner · Mexico
Miguel Angel Asencio Asencio
Miguel has more than 30 years of experience with national and international exposure, 19 years with Deloitte Mexico from February 1998 through November 2016, serving multinational clients on different industries such as…
Cases
Cases across this corridor
Cases whose typical case involves one or both sides of the corridor, each with how WONE Global handles it and who handles it in each market.
How do we set up a supply chain across several countries?International trade, customs & sanctionsHow do we close our company abroad properly?Corporate ownership & governanceCan our company abroad borrow from a foreign lender?Banking, lending & secured financeOur debtor abroad has gone insolvent. Can we recover anything?Restructuring, insolvency & business recoveryUrgent The tax authority wants our transfer pricing documentation. We don't have any.International tax planning & transfer pricingUrgent Investors want our company moved to Delaware or Singapore before they invest.Corporate ownership & governanceWhat must be in place before our new office abroad starts trading?Market entry, licensing & government engagementAre our controls abroad strong enough before we grow further?Audit, assurance & financial integrityWill our standard contract hold up with customers in other countries?Contracts, commercial disputes & collectionsDo our labels and product meet the rules in this country?Supply chain, product safety & consumer claimsWhat should our international supply agreement include?Contracts, commercial disputes & collectionsWe've bought a company abroad. How do we integrate it?Mergers, acquisitions & private equity
Scenarios
Across this corridor, how it is handled
Worked scenarios involving either side of the corridor: the client, where it comes from, what it ran into and how WONE Global handles it.
Worked scenarios
- Corporation · from United States · in SpainRetail chainIts first Spanish store opens in eight weeks. Tax registration, payroll, insurance, leases and supplier contracts all have to be live on the same day.How WONE Global handles it →
- Founder-led company · from India · in Singapore, United Arab Emirates, United StatesGrowth company preparing to raiseIt finds that one person approves payments abroad. Investors will see that in due diligence.How WONE Global handles it →
- Founder-led company · from United Kingdom · in Germany, France, United States and 2 moreSaaS companyIt signs customers in 20 countries on English-law terms nobody has checked locally.How WONE Global handles it →
- Mid-sized company · from United States · in France, Germany, ItalySkincare brandIt finds that one of its ingredients is not allowed on EU labels.How WONE Global handles it →
Scenarios are representative of the work WONE Global coordinates, not specific client matters.
What the guides say
Both sides: United States ↔ Mexico
The essentials of each market on the topics that decide how work between them is set up.
United States
Full guide
- Federal corporate income tax
- 21% of taxable income (state taxes additional)
- Withholding on US-source FDAP income paid abroad
- 30% or lower treaty rate
- BOI reporting to FinCEN
- Foreign-formed entities registered in a US state only.
- BEA BE-13 survey
- Mandatory, within 45 days of a new foreign investment
- Delaware corporation minimum franchise tax
- $175 (Authorized Shares Method) or $400 (Assumed Par Value Capital Method), due 1 March
- Federal minimum wage
- $7.25 per hour (higher state or city rate applies)
Mexico
Essentials · source-checked
- Competition authority
- Comisión Nacional Antimonopolio
- Data protection law
- New LFPDPPP issued 20 March 2025
- Foreign investment law
- Ley de Inversión Extranjera (last amended 27 May 2024)
- Social security registration
- Report hires and changes to IMSS within 5 working days
- New York Convention
- In force since 13 July 1971
- Patent term
- 20 years from filing
| Topic | United States | Mexico |
|---|---|---|
| Establish & Structure | Companies are formed under state law, and most foreign groups use a corporation or LLC formed in a state such as Delaware, then register in each other state where they operate. Read more | Foreign investment in Mexico is governed by the federal Foreign Investment Law, last amended in May 2024. The content of the law, entity forms under the General Law of Commercial Companies and registration steps could not be confirmed from official texts, so… Read more |
| Tax & Statutory | Federal corporate income tax is 21% for US corporations and for a foreign corporation's income effectively connected with a US business, with state corporate taxes on top. Read more | The corporate income tax rate, VAT rate, withholding taxes and Pillar Two position could not be confirmed from an official text; the Income Tax and VAT Law PDFs could not yet be checked. Read more |
| People, Payroll & Mobility | Federal law sets a floor for employment: a $7.25 minimum wage, overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act, unpaid family and medical leave for eligible staff, and payroll taxes. Read more | Every employee in a subordinate paid relationship must be covered by the mandatory social security regime, and employers must register with IMSS and report hires and changes within five working days. Read more |
| Banking, Treasury & Payments | Bank onboarding is governed by federal anti-money-laundering rules: banks must collect identifying information before opening an account and identify and verify a company's beneficial owners, with 2026 FinCEN relief allowing this once rather than at every new… Read more | Mexico has a floating peso and no general exchange controls, so profits and capital can usually be sent abroad without central bank approval. Read more |
| Trade, Customs & Supply Chain | Customs, tariffs and export controls are entirely federal: CBP runs entry and collection through its ACE system, the USITC maintains the tariff schedule, and the Commerce Department's BIS controls exports. Read more | Mexico's tariff law (LIGIE) was amended as recently as 13 October 2026, and the Customs Law and Foreign Trade Law were both reformed in the past year. Read more |
| Disputes, Enforcement & Exit | The United States has two parallel court systems: federal courts, with limited jurisdiction set by the Constitution and Congress, and state courts, which hear most contract disputes. Read more | Mexico has applied the New York Convention since 1971 without reservations. Commercial arbitration is governed by the Commercial Code, amended in February 2026, whose arbitration provisions could not yet be checked. Read more |
Our full guides are checked against official sources. Guides drafted with AI are marked as such. None of this is legal or tax advice.
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Work between the United States and Mexico, coordinated on both sides.
UNBOUNDED™ · Global Business Circuit™
Work through United States ↔ Mexico with the leaders doing it.
Bring a live question about this corridor to a small online session of senior business leaders, run by UNBOUNDED™, the ecosystem WONE Global belongs to.
The Global Business Circuit™
One corridor, 60 minutes online, 12 senior business leaders. The leaders' own questions set the agenda; market and professional perspectives join only where the questions call for them.
Sessions involving these markets
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No session on this exact corridor is scheduled in the coming weeks. The calendar rolls forward continuously.
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