Mexico is Texas’ largest trading partner, doing about $190 billion annually in trade, which supports about 1 million Texas jobs, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. That’s why the trade tensions between the U.S. and China could increase the business ties between Texas and Mexico. In fact, this dispute has already prompted U.S.-based executives to consider expansion in Mexico, according to a survey by Foley & Lardner.

The firm surveyed 160 U.S.-based executives from the manufacturing, automotive, retail and technology sectors about their interest in doing business in Latin America’s second-biggest economy in the weeks leading up to U.S. approval of the new North American free trade agreement in January.

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