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When Mike Newman started to hear warnings earlier this year about delays at ports on the US West Coast because of labour negotiations, the threat of more supply-chain chaos “became the last straw for us.”

So the chief executive of New York-based Returnity Innovations moved about two-thirds of his production of reusable shipping bags and boxes to Mexico from China to reduce the amount of merchandise flowing through the clogged docks in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California.

Even though Mexico’s manufacturing costs are as much as 30 percent higher than China’s for Returnity, the absence of tariffs and the speed of trucks give its customers a rarity in today’s disorderly arena of global commerce: more certainty about when their delivery will arrive. Newman plans to keep a significant portion of production in Mexico over the longer term.

“Having that flexibility,” he said, “is really necessary and valuable.”

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