In 2026 Mexico continues to be a very attractive destination for foreign direct investment.
Under President Scheinbaum Mexico developed a national strategy, Plan Mexico, which includes a portfolio of domestic and foreign investment that increased from $227 billion USD to $298 billion USD in 2025. It comprises nearly 2,000 business projects.
In the third quarter of 2025 Mexico broke a record in foreign direct investment, reaching nearly $41 billion which represents a 15% increase compared to 2024.
And in the first quarter of 2026, Mexico received $23.59 billion, a 10.4 percent year-over-year increase.
The United States remained Mexico's largest investor, with more than $10.2 billion in the first quarter alone, while US investment in Mexico increased 23.6 percent compared to 2025. Almost half of the total.
Companies operating in Mexico are expanding operations with profits reinvested, up from $16.6 billion in 2024 to $22.2 billion in 2025.
Mexico was the second largest Mergers and Acquisitions market in Latin America in 2024, concentrating 14 percent of the transactions.
And, in 2024 Mexico captured nearly one quarter of all FDI in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Wth a 15 percent increase in FDI in 2025 compared to 2024, a new all-time high was reached:
In 2023, the figure was $36,481 billion US dollars. In 2024 it was $37,613 billion. In 2025 it was $41 billion USD and in the first quarter of 2026 it was $23.59 billion USD.
So, record foreign direct investment confirms that global companies continue to choose Mexico as a trusted manufacturing and investment platform, closely integrated with the United States economy, strengthening regional co-production supply chains and industrial competitiveness in North America and other regions.
US companies remain the league leading investors in Mexico, expanding operations across advanced manufacturing, automotive, electronics, logistics, financial services, AI, and the strategic industries tied to regional production and exports.
Through Plan Mexico, the government is reducing red tape, streamlining permitting and single-window investment processes, expanding infrastructure and increasing regulatory certainty - creating more favorable conditions for manufacturing, near-shoring, and long-term industrial investment across the region.
For instance, Plan Mexico's investment facilitation framework establishes federal authorization timelines of up to 60 days for most manufacturing sectors through accelerated permitting and single-window processing mechanisms designed to support industrial expansion, co-production, and near-shoring projects,
Editor's Note: The above commentary was penned by Judith Arrieta Munguía, Consul General of Mexico in Brownsville. The commentary appears in the RGG Business Journal with the permission of the author.
