There will be investment announcements for Mexico in the CEO Dialogue: Ebrard

Mexico will make investment announcements at the CEO Dialogue, a forum that brings together business leaders from Mexico and the United States, said Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón, head of the Ministry of Economy (SE), who also commented that a council will be created in which governments participate. federal and state, as well as businessmen, so that Mexico has a single investment plan.

We already have a design on the route (of the T-MEC review) that we are going to follow, the main idea is to mobilize all legitimate interests in favor of strengthening the North American region. We are going to have great success; In fact, we are starting next week, we are going to have very good attendance from companies that are going to invest in Mexico. We are going to have important investment announcements in our country, it is President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first meeting with the United States business communitysaid the official when participating in a forum organized by Bloomberg.

He added that one of the main axes of the SE for the new federal administration is to organize the 2025 investment portfolio. It means working very closely with the Mexican and international private sector that is in Mexico.

He commented that the federal government already has the first project of how Mexico’s investment portfolio will be presented, which is divided into 10 corridors as instructed by the head of the federal Executive, and will be presented at the CEO Dialogue on the 14th and 15th. of October.

Ebrard explained that a council will be organized, in which the SE, representatives of state governments, businessmen and investors will participate. so that we have a single investment plan.

He specified that the council must also resolve the geographical distribution of investments, since most of these are made in territory where water stress is greater, since 60 percent of foreign direct investment is located in the north of the country, 32 percent percent in the center and 8 percent in the south-southeast, where there is more water available. Furthermore, this entity must work with each sector.

According to the federal agency, for next year the objective is to accelerate national and foreign investment and avoid a significant slowdown, which is why it is working on a 2025 investment portfolio to create a sequence for monitoring and landing capital in the country. , which implies coordination with various secretariats.

Ebrard Casaubón highlighted that it is urgent to reduce the disadvantages represented by the United States Inflation Reduction Law and the Canadian Investment Plan.

Another goal of the current administration is to increase the national content of what is manufactured in Mexico, since currently it only reaches 19.5 percent on average in export products.

Our mission is not just to increase that, but our market share.

The official noted that priority will be given to the energy, water sectors – which implies creating an industry that practically does not exist –, pharmaceutical industry, medical equipment and microchips.

Altagracia Gómez, coordinator of the Business Advisory Council of the federal government, commented in an interview in the context of a forum organized by the American Chamber (Amcham) Mexico that the council in charge will be there to support all industrial policy issues, land investments, especially the goals we have to achieve shared prosperity.

Separately, economist Mariana Mazzucato mentioned that achieving shared prosperity is not only about dispersing social support, but also about promoting innovation and education.