PHARR, Texas ( Border Report ) – A group of economic investors representing several southern Mexican states have been touring the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas seeking economic and binational trade opportunities for both regions.
Representatives from the Mexican Business Council for Foreign Trade, Investment and Technology (COMCE Sur) arrived Thursday and are seeking ways to promote binational trade between the Mexican states of Puebla, Tlaxcala, Tabasco, Oaxaca and Veracruz and the South Texas border region.
They have spent the past two days meeting with local leaders and learning trade, tech and border growth initiatives they can partner with here, officials say.
On Thursday, they met with McAllen’s Chamber of Commerce and members of McAllen’s City Council, McAllen’s assistant city manager and representatives of the McAllen International Airport and the McAllen Economic Development Corporation.
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