Commerce between the United States and Mexico has gone on for centuries. What has changed is the scale of the volume of goods and services exchanged across the border and the laws applicable to that mercantile trade.

In 2000, Mexico adopted new insolvency laws that radically revised insolvency in Mexico. In the years since the adoption of those laws, numerous cases on both sides of the border have highlighted the intersection of the insolvency laws of the United States and Mexico.