Mexico captured Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows for a total of 35.292 million dollars, an increase of 12% year-on-year, considering preliminary figures, the Ministry of Economy reported on Wednesday.

Of the FDI reported, 48% corresponds to new investments in Mexico; 45% to profits that did not return to their country of origin (reinvestment of profits) and the remaining 7% to loans and payments between companies of the same corporate group (accounts between companies).

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Additionally, the Ministry of Economy reported that there is a record FDI of 5.5 billion dollars, which corresponds to transnational companies whose headquarters of the corporate group are located in Mexico and generate investment through their subsidiaries abroad.

The five federal entities with the highest FDI registered during 2022 were: Mexico City, with 10,923 million dollars, followed by Nuevo León (4,397 million), Jalisco (2,895 million), Baja California (1,877 million) and Chihuahua (1,876 million). At the same time, 36% of FDI arrivals went to the manufacturing sector.

Also noteworthy are the manufacture of automobiles and trucks, the manufacture of electronic components, the manufacture of auto parts, the manufacture of equipment for the generation and distribution of electrical energy, and the basic iron and steel industry.

The FDI registered between January and December 2022 came from 3,485 Mexican companies with foreign capital participation, 5,739 trust agreements and 24 foreign legal entities.

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The reported amounts only consider investments made and formally notified before the National Registry of Foreign Investments of the Ministry of Economy; hence their preliminary nature and the fact that they are updated in successive quarters.

The figure reached in 2022 was the third largest amount of FDI attraction by Mexico, exceeded in 2013 (48.400 million dollars) and 2015 (35.900 million).

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