Perrysburg, Ohio-based glass maker Owens-Illinois OI.N formed a joint venture with Constellation to expand a glass bottle plant next to the Nava brewery and subsequently bought a major Mexican glass bottle producer to meet demand. companies also benefit from Corona production.
“Everyone would lose, especially the consumer, it’s that simple,” said Brandon Stallard, CEO of Troy, Michigan-based TPS Logistics, which handles tens of thousands of cross-border shipments for customers daily. Unraveling the NAFTA supply chains of companies such as Constellation, or the big automakers, would lead to higher prices for consumer goods, experts and industry executives say. hops or second just behind the United Kingdom. Since 2010, Mexico has been either the world’s largest importer of U.S.
Some raw materials, including hops and grains to brew the beer, do come from the United States,” Constellation said in a statement.įarms in the Midwestern and Northwestern United States are major growers of barley in North America, and in 2015 Mexico was the world’s largest importer of U.S. We source less than 20 percent of our glass bottles from the United States. “The majority of our glass bottle supply comes from the glass plant at the Nava brewery and other Mexico suppliers. The company does not disclose the specific origin of ingredients. The company - which has seen its market valuation triple to nearly $30 billion since 2013 when it obtained rights to sell Corona and other Mexican beer brands - imports hops, barley and other grains from the United States to brew Corona. However, about 40 percent of the cost of the company’s Mexican beers are tied to ingredients, supplies and freight services that come from the United States, said David Klein, Constellation’s chief financial officer during a conference call earlier this month. To qualify as a Mexican beer, Constellation’s beer brands must be made in Mexico. election, the company said it would buy a Mexican brewery from Grupo Modelo for $600 million and expand its operations in the country. rights to Corona, plans to spend $2.5 billion to expand an existing brewery in Nava, just south of the border with Texas and $2 billion on a new brewery in Mexicali by 2021. Victor, New York-based Constellation Brands Inc STZ.N, which owns the U.S. The stakes are high for brands like Corona, which is entirely brewed in Mexico, and the transport companies such as Union Pacific Corp UNP.N that make money moving the beer's raw ingredients and packaging into Mexico, and bringing the finished brew back to the United States. Trump’s rhetoric has also heightened uncertainty over the billions in supply chain and infrastructure investment that a diverse array of companies from automakers and railroads to appliance makers and food producers have made on both side of the U.S.-Mexico border during the past two decades. Senator Lindsey Graham, a republican from South Carolina, took to Twitter on Thursday, saying “Simply put, any policy proposal which drives up costs of Corona, tequila, or margaritas is a big-time bad idea. The ideas have met opposition in Congress, even inside Trump’s own party. House of Representatives have included a tax on imports in their blueprint for overhauling corporate taxes. On Thursday, the White House floated a plan to impose a 20 percent tax on imports. Trump has not outlined specific plans for revising NAFTA, but he has made repeated calls for a levy to discourage companies from moving jobs outside the United States.
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president Donald Trump follows through on vows to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or tax imports. Getting it there from its brewery in Mexico involves a complex, cross-border supply network that will likely get more complicated if U.S. Bottles of Corona beer, the flagship brand of Group Modelo, are seen in Mexico City, Mexico February 14, 2013.
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