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The ripple effects of the Trump administration’s tariffs have driven manufacturing out of the United States, favoring countries like Mexico where tariffs are less burdensome due to trade agreements. However, Mexico faces a severe energy bottleneck; its state-owned energy company, PEMEX, is plagued by inefficiency and cannot meet the growing power demands needed to sustain industrial parks along the border. As a result, warehouses sit empty because they lack the electricity to operate, stalling the re-industrialization efforts along the US-Mexico corridor.