Rio South Texas Region: A Strategic Platform in the New Geography of Competitiveness

For decades, global companies selected production locations primarily based on labor costs. Today, that approach is no longer sufficient.

Tariffs, rules of origin, geopolitical shifts, and trade volatility have elevated industrial location from an operational choice to a board-level strategic decision.

Within this context, Rio South Texas Region stands out as one of North America’s most efficient and resilient industrial platforms, not by competing at cost extremes, but by structurally integrating the strengths of two countries into a single, coordinated operating environment.

South Texas provides:

• Direct access to the U.S. consumer and industrial market
• Regulatory certainty within a stable legal framework
• Tariff mitigation and full compliance with USMCA

Northern Tamaulipas contributes:

• Deep manufacturing experience across multiple sectors
• A skilled and scalable industrial workforce
• Competitive operating and production costs

Together, these two geographies enable companies to:

• Minimize or eliminate tariff exposure
• Meet USMCA rules of origin efficiently
• Adjust operations without full-scale relocation
• Protect long-term access to the U.S. market
• Build redundancy and flexibility into their supply chains

Tariffs do not halt investment flows.

They redirect capital toward locations that offer certainty, flexibility, and intelligent risk management.

Rio South Texas Region is not an alternative location, it is a strategic evolution in how global companies enter and serve the U.S. market.

Through the Council for South Texas Economic Progress (COSTEP), investors gain a single regional counterpart capable of coordinating:

• Site selection across multiple communities
• Workforce availability and training pipelines
• Infrastructure readiness and utilities
• Incentives at local, state, and binational levels
• Cross-border operational alignment

From initial feasibility analysis to startup and long-term expansion, COSTEP supports companies in reducing execution risk, accelerating decision timelines, and achieving a successful and sustainable entry into one of North America’s most connected industrial corridors.

Learn more at riosouthtexasregion.com

Rio South Texas Region: One Region. Two Countries. One Future.