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Georgia companies will have two chances to go to Mexico this May to explore market opportunities alongside trusted local organizations.
The trips come at a critical time in the bilateral relationship ahead of a six-year review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, a pact seen by businesses as vital to North American supply chains but with skepticism from the Trump administration.
Georgia Department of Development announced that it would lead a May 11-15 trip to both Mexico City and Monterrey, a longtime manufacturing hub, as part of its series of Gateway to Exports trade missions. The Mexico opportunity will be preceded by a Brazil-Paraguay leg in March.
A few days before, the the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will lead its annual international mission to Mexico City, where up to 30 participants will visit facilities from large American corporations including United Parcel Service Inc. and Walmart, GHCC President and CEO Veronica Maldonado-Torres said Friday.
About half the slots are already sold, showing Mexico to be a “no-brainer,” especially in this pivotal year, for the chamber’s third economic development mission in as many years, Ms. Maldonado-Torres said.
“We’ve been wanting to go to Mexico, specifically with what’s going on this year around the relationship with the U.S. and how interconnected Mexico is to our Georgia economy,” she told Global Atlanta.
Trips to Colombia and El Salvador in the last two years have targeted the countries of ancestry for the chamber’s board chairs, and this year is no different: 2025-27 Chair Socorro Rodriguez hails from Mexico, which counts a diaspora of nearly a half-million people in Georgia, a state that is now more than 10 percent Hispanic by population.
Ms. Maldonado-Torres said that the chamber’s return to international economic development in 2023 after a decade-long hiatus was a much-needed recognition that its mission spreads beyond borders.
“That’s part of our role: It’s not just domestic, local and state end economic development. It’s international. Folks are calling us. We’ve got to create that opportunity,” she added.
In 2025, ProPanama became a corporate member, hosting an investment roadshow at the chamber’s offices focusing on the Central American nation. And next week, the chamber will partner with UPS on an export readiness program.
For Ms. Maldonado-Torres, it’s all about the chamber’s mission of helping members grow and sustain their businesses. Helping them understand the business opportunities incumbent in the upcoming eight World Cup matches was the reason for convening the chamber’s first coffee meeting of the year at the newly expanded and reopened National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
An info session for the Mexico trip is to be held on Feb. 6, and Mexican Consul General Rafael Laveaga is set to speak at the chamber’s Feb. 17 legislative breakfast.
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