La Jornada: Investments included in the Mexico Plan amount to 987.5 million dollars

The Mexican government ruled favorably on 148 of 173 investment projects in new fixed assets reviewed between September 2025 and June 2026, as part of the Plan Mexico fiscal stimulus scheme.

These projects, according to the annexes to the second Government Report (2025-2026), represent investments of 987.5 million dollars, distributed in sectors such as agribusiness, automobiles, consumer goods, construction, pharmaceuticals, plastics and cardboard, logistics, metalworking industry, mining, chemicals and transportation.

The Mexico Plan is the industrial policy strategy presented by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo on January 13, 2025 with the purpose of strengthening national production, promoting import substitution in sectors where the country depends on international supplies and positioning Mexico among the 10 largest economies in the world by 2030. The instrument marked the return of active industrial policy, after more than two decades in which the State limited itself to guaranteeing conditions for markets to operate without intervention. direct.

Within this framework, the report states, between September 2025 and July 2026, employment indicators advanced consistently with the objectives of the strategy. As of July 31, 2026, there were 22,760,154 jobs affiliated with the Mexican Social Security Institute, the highest figure recorded for that month and the fourth largest since the registry existed, with 87 percent of permanent positions.

At the end of July, the average contribution base salary reached 673.9 pesos per day, the highest level for any month on record and 3.47 percent higher in real terms than the previous year.

The employment behavior was accompanied by results in foreign trade, one of the central fronts of Plan Mexico.

From January to June 2026, exports totaled 389,723 million dollars, 24.6 percent more than in the same period of the previous year, while imports reached 379,866 million dollars, an increase of 22 percent. This result occurred in the middle of the review process of the Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC).

Throughout 2025, Mexico’s foreign trade reached a value of one trillion 328 thousand 903 million dollars, with historical exports of 664 thousand 837 million dollars and imports of 664 thousand 66 million dollars

The strengthening of these indicators coincided with a record flow of foreign direct investment. In 2025, Mexico raised 40,871 million dollars, a historic amount and 10.8 percent higher than in 2024. In the first quarter of 2026, funding reached another maximum for a similar period, with 23,591 million dollars, 10.4 percent more than in the same quarter of 2025.