Sergio E. Contreras Pérez, executive president of the Mexican Business Council for Foreign Trade, Investment and Technology (Comce), stated that Mexico will receive 88.5 billion dollars in foreign direct investment in 2025 and 2026, despite US tariffs.
“In 2025 we will end up with 43,200 million dollars and by 2026 we consider that between 40,000 and 45,000 million dollars of foreign direct investment will arrive in Mexico,” said the businessman during the presentation of the FDI and foreign trade perspectives for 2026.
He said that the economy and the global market have had a recomposition due to President Trump’s imposition of tariffs.
But, he expressed, Mexico has an advantage due to tariffs because when the world is very nervous about the trade war, more investment comes to the country and more is sold.
He said that between January and September the economy received more than $41 billion in FDI, 14.5% more than in 2024.
The increase in FDI “is coupled with the fact that we are an important country in the industrial and manufacturing part.”
He highlighted that 37% of FDI was for the installation of production lines for manufacturing companies and financial services, which is the lever of investment in the country.
He said that Mexico is the fifth global recipient of FDI: “This is something extremely important, because it is below the United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom and Canada.”
In Latin American countries, FDI will have a decrease of 12%, “when in Mexico it is growing 14.5% and we have to believe it.”
He expressed that “the United States consolidates its presence in the Mexican economy, since 40% of FDI came from that nation.”
“In the United States they have credibility of what the Mexican economy represents, so we have the opportunity to continue growing,” he commented.
Spain is the second country that invests the most in Mexico, followed by Japan, the Netherlands and Canada.
The arrival of production lines from the manufacturing industry stood out.
More than 90% of exports are from the manufacturing industry, which “shows that there is consolidation of the Mexican industry.”
“Mexican industry can contribute to Mexico’s foreign trade through manufacturing,” he said.
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“There is another route for foreign companies to establish in Mexico, perhaps not as a new direct investment, but as a co-investment with Mexican companies,” he expressed.
He declared that Mexico has 3,000 kilometers of border with the United States, the most important economy in the world currently.
“There are opportunities for Mexico to continue being and consolidating for everything we are calling nearshoring and friendshoring,” he expressed.
“Having a recomposition of tariffs will put investors’ eyes on Mexico, which is part of the most economically important region in the world,” he said.
