Guatemala's case for nearshoring
- Trade agreements and market access
- Agreements and preferences in force
- not audited
The verifiable elements the dossier assembles: duty-free access to the US market under CAFTA-DR, with a yarn-forward rule that rewards regional vertical integration; apparel and textiles account for 18% of exports to the DR-CAFTA bloc (2025); a border and an FTA with Mexico (0% duty on 97% of lines); a customs union with Honduras; and the file already tracks maquila minimum wages (`minimum_wage_*_maquila_*`), an input to any cost comparison with Mexico, Costa Rica or the Dominican Republic. The public quantitative studies — the IDB's on nearshoring and the 'Guatemala No Se Detiene' plan of the government, CACIF and FUNDESA — could not be consulted (403) and remain priority gaps; their figures are not cited.
The research is written in English; quoted figures, source names and the titles of legal instruments stay in the language their source published them in.
Figures
- Apparel and textiles in exports to the DR-CAFTA bloc
- 18%
- Guatemalan goods at 0% in Mexico
- 97%
Caveat
Sources
Related records
- Guatemala's WTO membership and tariff binding coverage
- CAFTA-DR's entry into force and parties for Guatemala
- Guatemala's trade with CAFTA-DR partners 20 years on
- Timeline of the EU–Central America Association Agreement
- Entry into force of the Central America–Mexico FTA for Guatemala
- Tariff elimination and quotas under the Mexico FTA
This layer is research: read from public sources by the archive's own team, every claim cited with the date it was consulted, and audited where it is marked so. It has not entered the verified store — no figure here was fetched back from its source or stamped with a retrieval time — so it wears no red provenance numeral and never mixes with the verified figures.