La industria de oleaginosas en el tratado de libre comercio

• Main Authors: Luis Fuentes Aguilar, Consuelo Soto Mora
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 1993-01-01
• Series: Investigaciones Geográficas
• Online Access: http://www.investigacionesgeograficas.unam.mx/index.php/rig/article/view/59017
• ISSN: 0188-4611; 2448-7279

The importation of raw material for the oleaginous industry, assures the supply of seeds and raw oils to this sector where Mexico does not have enough production of them. Thanks to this, Mexico is in an eminently good position to participate successfully in the North American and Canadian markets throught the Free Trade Treaty (TLC Tratado de Libre Comercio). There exists a great complementary fact among the three countries involved in the TLC, since the United States and Canada produce a great surplus of oleaginous seeds, and Mexico has the enough capability to carry out the processes of grinding and refining them. A necessary condition to be able to achieve an effective penetration, consists in having access to the North American markets with no customs tariffs, and also to the inputs with the same conditions that the counterparts in the treaty The United States and Canada have. In the Mexican Republic, the oleaginous industry has four regional centers. They are: a) The Federal District (D.F.), and the state of Mexico based in the nearness of the oil market, where private enterprises operate with processing plants and their particular delivery system, b) The Occidental sector with its gravitational center in the city of Guadalajara and its area of influence, where the paste market is of great importance, c) In the nort­heastern section of Mexico in the state of Nuevo León mainly which is the gravitational center of this activity, and the north of Tamaulipas, where they get the raw material from abroad, d) The northwestern sector formed by the states of Sonora, Sinaloa and Baja California. This region produ­ces oleaginous seeds and the tendency to process the seeds locally can be observed as one of the ways to increase the regional level of development when incorporating the advantages that the financial organizations of sup­port offer to the agricultural industries, and also other political instruments like the TLC offer them advantages to encourage investment in the basic product fields. It is hoped that the TLC bring investments for the oleaginous inustry, at the time when the external market be increased and when the supply of raw material can be assured, this will permit increase the coefficient of workability as well as the installed capacity.