US-MEXICO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
MID-AMERICA CHAPTER
We provide our members with effective tools, resources, and key insights to promote and strengthen opportunities between the US and Mexico. From trade to investment, our organization offers opportunities to improve communication, cooperation, and understanding through our partnerships in both the private and public sectors of the United States and Mexico.
Executive Director Ralph Biedermann answering a question on the NAFTA negotiations at the Great Lakes Economic Forum in Montreal , May 2018.
In 1973, United States President Richard M. Nixon and Luis Echeverría, President of Mexico, came together and discussed the need for an independent entity to examine cross-border policy-making processes. As a result of these conversations, the Chamber was formed with David Rockefeller appointed president of the advisory board.
The organization has since served as the leading binational business organization building mutual profitable trade and investment relationships between the United States and Mexico.
Today, the chamber is led by Al Zapanta, CEO & President. The Mid-America Chapter, one of 18 bi-national chapters, operates under the leadership of Ralph Biedermann, Executive Director, and an Advisory Board.
Ambassador Reyna Torres welcomes officials from the State of Jalisco to Chicago.
From left to right: Xavier Orendain de Obeso, Coordinator of Growth and Development; Governor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez; Ambassador Reyna Torres, Consul General of Mexico in Chicago; Elvia Martinez; Ralph Biedermann; and Luis Roberto Arechederra Pacheco, Secretary of Economic Development
Ambassador Reyna Torres, Consul General of Mexico in Chicago, briefs Board Members of the Mid-America Chapter on the upcoming "Mexico Week in Chicago," May 2-10, at a Board Meeting on April 14, 2022.
Standing from left: Rocio Rivera, Economics Consul at the Consulate; Margarita Escalante, Barnes & Thornburg; Jose Flores, Wyndalco Enterprises; Edgar Lopezlena, RSM US; Stephen Greene, Citibank; Luz Najera, Ingredion.
Seated left to right: Mayra Pena, RSM US; Ralph Biedermann, Mid-America Chapter Executive Director; Ambassador Torres; Elizabeth Jia, Culture China Premier Solutions.
Also attending virtually were Jim Ryan, Constellation Brands; David Rivera, United Airlines; Haydn Powell, Caterpillar; Hugo Dubovoy, Baker McKenzie; Norm Bates; Micron Power; and Richard Paullin, ITAGC.
Ralph Biedermann (top row right), together with Robin L. Brown and Luz del Carmen Najera of Ingredion (bottom row center and right), meet with Ambassador Reyna Torres (bottom row left) and Karla Orozco and Rocio Rivera (top row left and center) at the Consulate of Mexico in Chicago on May 11, 2021, to discuss trade in agricultural products. Ingredion has three facilities in Mexico and has had production presence in the country for over 100 years.
The US-Mexico Chamber of Commerce has locations in both the US and Mexico. Offices are located in all the diverse economies and industries of the US and Mexico.
United States
Springfield, VA
Seattle, WA
Los Angeles, CA
Kingwood, TX
Detroit, MI
Dallas, TX
Chicago, IL
New York, NY
Miami, FL
Salt Lake City, UT
Mexico
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
Guadalajara, Jalisco
Aguascalientes, AGS
Leon, Guanajuato
Morelia, Michoacán
Veracruz, Veracruz
Puebla, Puebla
Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
