The Baja California Travel & Living Webzine

Doing Business in Baja California, Mexico

We look at the challenges facing business in Baja California

In doing business in Mexico there are the usual challenges and then there are those that are more specific to doing business in Baja California. Challenges, like work permits for foreigners, importation of raw materials, employee laws, unions, exportation and transportation, lack of inventory, banking, accounting practices and the lack of a dependable postal service have plagued business persons for years. Some of these challenges have lessened over the recent years, do to the Internet with better communications; NAFTA, easing border requirements; larger investments by major distributors and transportation being opened to US trucking companies just to name a few.

There are these and many other solutions that people have had to create and improvise in order to bring the goods and services that are now available here in Baja California. With Baja’s distance from Mexico, making almost all shipping via ferry or air from the mainland, makes living here in Baja California Sur especially challenging.

Baja California (Norte), with it’s proximity to the U.S. boarder, many times, makes importing less expensive than transportation from lower parts of Mexico. In fact with the Mexican national trucking rates being what they are and the great inventory north of the broader, even if you need something shipped to Lands’ End in Cabo San Lucas it is generally cheaper or easier to truck it in from the U.S.A.

On these and subsequent pages we will publish business profiles a few of those pioneers that have gone before in creating solutions to those specific challenges found in doing business in Baja.

Business Profiles

Turning a Baja Passion into an Online Business

Larry Buck has been traveling Baja for many years with his family. An avid hobbyist Larry applied his knowledge of computers and Baja into GPS maps, which he sells online. Now the detailed maps allow you to plot anywhere in Baja on your Garmin GPS.

Creating Fine Italian Dining in La Paz

Meet Miguel and Lei of the Caffe Milano in La Paz. From opposite sides of the world, they met in Baja and created an  Italian Bistro Dining experience.