5,589 Mexican companies buy electrical connectors from China
Mexican customs records identify both sides of every import: the company bringing goods in, and where those goods came from. Aggregate that across a year and a pattern appears that is more useful to an exporter than any market-size estimate.
The pattern
Here are the largest product-and-origin combinations in Mexican imports, counting only companies we can reach by phone or email:
| Product | Sourced from | Reachable Mexican buyers | Import value |
|---|---|---|---|
| HS 3926 — industrial plastic articles | China | 6,402 | US$2,460M |
| HS 7318 — screws, bolts and fasteners | United States | 6,136 | US$2,420M |
| HS 3926 — industrial plastic articles | United States | 5,933 | US$5,353M |
| HS 3923 — plastic packaging | United States | 5,922 | US$4,393M |
| HS 8536 — electrical connectors and switchgear | China | 5,589 | US$7,357M |
In total there are 13,334 product-and-origin combinations in Mexico with at least five reachable buyers.
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Why this matters more than market size
Market-size reports tell you a category is worth several billion dollars. That number is true and almost useless, because it does not tell you whether anyone is looking for a new supplier.
The origin breakdown tells you something a sales team can act on. If 5,589 Mexican companies already buy electrical connectors from China, three things follow. The demand is proven, not projected. Those buyers have an incumbent, which means the sale is a displacement rather than an education. And you know exactly what you are competing against on price, lead time and certification.
Displacement is a shorter conversation than creating demand. The buyer already knows they need the product, already has a specification, and already has a purchasing process. What they may not have is a second source — and most procurement departments want one.
A note on what these records are
Origin in a customs declaration is the origin of the goods, not of the supplying company. A US distributor shipping Chinese-made parts appears as a US supplier of Chinese-origin goods. Both facts are true and they answer different questions: origin tells you where the product is manufactured, the supplier's own country tells you who to compete against commercially.
We keep the two separate for exactly that reason. Conflating them is the most common error we see in trade-data products, and it produces target lists pointed at the wrong continent.
Where the concentration is
Notice what the top rows have in common: industrial components, not finished goods. Plastic articles, fasteners, connectors, packaging. Components are bought by hundreds of manufacturers; finished goods are bought by a handful of distributors. If you make components, your addressable buyer list in a single market is one or two orders of magnitude larger than you probably assume.
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