In office barely a year, Mexico’s president Enrique Peña Nieto is pursuing aggressive reforms for breakout growth through greater competitiveness. Washington should do all it can to help him succeed, because Mexico’s expansion is good for the US.

Already our second largest export market after Canada, US imports from Mexico contain some 40 per cent of US content (from China it’s 4 per cent). In many industries, joint production and supply chains have developed to such an extent that we don’t just trade things together, now we design and make things together, in high value-added products like aerospace, automobiles, and sophisticated medical equipment. Production in Mexico and a growing middle class creates good jobs in the US and vice versa, increasing economies of scale and building North American competitiveness in the face of continued competition from China and elsewhere.

via Now is the Time for the U.S. to Embrace Mexico | AS/COA.