Comment / Analyst corner: 'Looking for nearshoring, finding a mirage'

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The hype surrounding Mexico and India. More valuable production spots in South East Asia, with Vietnam, Taiwan and a slew of other countries, rather than China, on everybody’s lips as we all look for the new land of supply chain promise: we have read about all of that quite a lot in recent post-Covid times.

And there certainly are merits in certain developing patterns and thoughts, many of them placing a question mark on the status quo of supply chain dynamics ...