José Manuel García Moreno

Transnational Firms as an Example of Industrial Relocation: Tijuana (Mexico) and Tangier-Tetouan (Morocco)

The aim of this chapter is to examine the role of transnational firms in two places on the Mexico and Morocco borderland: Tijuana and Tangier-Tetouan. Their transformation of local markets with the active participation of political-institutional agents, constitutes the basis for the expansion of these entities in certain regions. Along with proximity to points of sale for manufacturing products (the United States and the European Union), the potential in the reduction of labor costs and the profit to be made in the sale of said products, converts these firms into actors transforming broad zones in Mexico and Morocco. We will examine these and other issues in-depth, presenting an image of the current situation, the effect and result of the presence of transnational firms in these two places.