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Nearshoring vs Friendshoring 2026.

Why it matters

The "nearshoring" (Mexico, Poland, Turkey) and "friendshoring" (India, Vietnam, Morocco) shifts are now settled multi-year trends reshaping global capex. Different sectors, different capital patterns, different geopolitical implications.

Demand tier

very high

Primary region

Global

Last updated

2026-04-26

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"nearshoring vs friendshoring" "supply chain reshoring" "Mexico nearshoring" "India friendshoring" "China decoupling"

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CEO Supply Chain Exec Investor

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Atlantic Council Nearshoring Tracker analyst

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AJG Global Nexus · live infrastructure

Multilateral trade graph — composed from the same registries on every render.

Cities

2,596

across 184 countries

Countries

184

multilateral coverage

Mandates

1,119

live trade mandates

FTAs

526

free-trade agreements

Blocs

economic blocs

Corridors

158

trade corridors

Trade bodies

1,366

authority registries

Tools

1,330

free calculators & lookups

Library nodes

1,190

decision tree

Lexicon terms

1,581

unpacked vocabulary

Subject hubs

100

school-is-cool axes

Institutions

313

colleges & universities

TOTALITY fields

1,600

32-point dual-POV across hubs + cities + toolkit + stages

TOTALITY entities

100

ALPHA + BRAVO retrofitted

The AJG Global Nexus is a deterministic, flat-file PHP composition of the world's trade graph — every country, every FTA, every corridor, every HS chapter, cross-multiplied against cities, schools, careers, and the working life that connects them. Nothing here is API-fetched at runtime; nothing depends on a paid build pipeline. Every URL composes from the same registries, so when one count moves, every page that touches that axis updates on the next render. The platform is multilateral by constitution — never bilateral-narrowed, never region-locked, never behind a paywall. School is cool, college builds the foundation, jobs build the network, work builds the experience, and business is where it gets monetised in your name. The journey is the product, and the data above is the live receipt of how much of it is currently browsable.

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