We look at the challenges facing business in Baja California
In doing business in Mexico there are the usual challenges and then there
are those that are more specific to doing business in Baja California.
Challenges, like work permits for foreigners, importation of raw materials,
employee laws, unions,
 exportation and transportation, lack of inventory,
banking, accounting practices and the lack of a dependable postal service
have plagued business persons for years. Some of these challenges
have lessened over the recent years, do to the Internet with better
communications; NAFTA, easing border requirements; larger investments by
major distributors and transportation being opened to US trucking companies
just to name a few.
There are these and many other solutions that people have
had to create and improvise in order to bring the goods and services that
are now available here in Baja California.
With Baja’s distance from Mexico, making almost all shipping via ferry or
air from the mainland, makes living here in Baja California Sur especially
challenging.
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 Baja California (Norte), with it’s proximity to the U.S.
boarder, many times, makes importing less expensive than transportation from
lower parts of Mexico. In fact with the Mexican national trucking rates
being what they are and the great inventory north of the broader, even if
you need something shipped to Lands’ End in Cabo San Lucas it is generally
cheaper or easier to truck it in from the U.S.A.
On these and subsequent pages we will publish business profiles a few of
those pioneers that have gone before in creating solutions to those specific
challenges found in doing business in Baja.
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Mike
& Sandy Pearce of La Luz del Sol
