Mexico in a Changing Global Economy —
the policy-level capstone.

Mexico in a Changing Global Economy — Opportunities for German Companies in Key Strategic Sectors was a half-day institutional event jointly organised by the German-Mexican Chamber of Industry and Commerce (AHK México), the IHK Region Stuttgart and the Lateinamerika Verein e.V. (LAV), with the institutional support of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW), Deutsche Messe (DMG), and Baden-Württemberg International (BW-i). The structure was three sectoral panels — aerospace, automotive, medical technology — followed by structured networking. The audience was German Mittelstand industrial principals, German federal and state economic-development institutions, Mexican federal and state government representatives, and institutional advisors.

That is a policy room, not a sales room. And policy rooms in Germany are won by who is invited to speak, not by who is on the attendee list.

On behalf of Invest in Chihuahua, LCC Strategy held the State’s seat on Panel I — Mexico’s Aerospace Industry: Opportunities and Growth, alongside Leonardo Schulze Wierling (CEO, Harpy — an industrial soft-landing operator based in Panama) and Harold Hoekstra (COO, NAI Mexico), under the moderation of Orlando Baquero, CEO of Lateinamerika Verein e.V.

The panel did not function as a state pitch. It functioned as a forward-looking sector conversation, framed by AHK México and LAV, in which Chihuahua participated as a co-author. That positioning — reference State for Mexico’s aerospace conversation, inside a German policy frame — is the outcome that matters.

Baden-Württemberg is the German industrial counterpart most actively reading Mexico right now. Across the Hannover week, the State’s relationship with BW was anchored at two institutional levels — the BW Ministry of Economy and BW-i — and reinforced through engagements with representative BW Mittelstand manufacturers. Stuttgart closed that thread at the LBBW table, on the same week. Same regional anchor, different altitude: company-level on the Hannover floor, policy-level at the Schlossplatz.

Mexico arrived in Stuttgart as a curated cohort, not a delegation list. Chihuahua sat alongside the State of Baja California (medical technology) and the State of San Luis Potosí (automotive), with the Embassy of Mexico in Germany opening the conversation. For a German audience reading Mexico sector-by-sector, the cohort made each State legible against a specific industrial vertical — and made Chihuahua the aerospace-sector reference State by composition, before a single slide was shown.

The USMCA review window is now visible at the policy level. The questions in the room were not whether Mexico can manufacture. They were about which Mexican counterparts can be trusted to execute a multi-year industrial relationship through a period of trade-policy ambiguity. That is an institutional question, and the venue — a Landesbank, with a Chamber and a regional internationalisation agency at the table — answered it by demonstration.

The Mexico Day at LBBW illustrates the discipline LCC Strategy was built to operate at: a sovereign client positioned, not as one of many, but as the named counterpart inside a German policy frame, on the panel where the conversation was actually being written. That positioning is built before the event, through institutional partners (AHK, IHK, LAV, BW-i, LBBW) who decide who gets invited to speak. Hannover and Stuttgart, taken together, are one mandate executed in two registers: the market-level register on the fair floor, and the policy-level register at the Schlossplatz.

We will continue to operate on both registers. The next round of European engagements is already in preparation.

Stuttgart was the right place to close. A market reads what is shown on a fair floor; an institution reads who is at its table. Closing the German tour at LBBW, on the aerospace panel of a Mexico Day organised by AHK México, IHK Region Stuttgart and Lateinamerika Verein, made the State of Chihuahua’s mandate legible at both layers. That dual legibility — market and institution — is the entire point of taking a delegation to Germany.

The full Mission Report — meeting-by-meeting analysis, counterpart profiles, and recommended next steps — will be delivered to the State of Chihuahua before the end of May.