Nearly a year after Mexico’s government began recruiting local exporters to sell avocados, tequila and other goods wholesale with Alibaba, China’s biggest e-commerce site, the trade body responsible still needs to sign up dozens more to meet its goal. Twenty-four companies are now approved to export to businesses in China and other countries as paying members on business-to-business platform Alibaba.com, said Carlos Alvarez, a project coordinator at government trade and investment group Promexico, in an interview. The Mexican government signed a deal with Alibaba last September to help small- and mid-sized businesses enter Mexico’s nascent e-commerce industry alongside …read more
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