Competitive costs with a strong manufacturing tradition. The country has a young population of 130 million people with an average age under 29, and with a strong industrial vocation: Mexico has the largest manufacturing sector and the biggest number of engineering graduates in Latin America. Accordingly, manufacturing is the country’s biggest destination of foreign investment, attracted by Mexico's vibrant export opportunities and by its strong and growing labour force and domestic market, with
Mexico offers a growing market with a highly-skilled and young workforce.
A unique strategic location at the center of your global markets and destinations. Mexico is part and a close partner of both North America and the vast Latin American region. Its vast 11,122 kms coastline connects it, on the Pacific Ocean, with Asia and the West Coast of North- and South-America, and on the Atlantic Ocean, with Europe and Africa, the Caribbean islands and the East Coast of the Americas – all this connectivity supported by a strong road and rail network to the North and port a
Your ideal strategic center near your major markets away from Asia.
NATIONAL
LEGAL FRAMEWORK
The Mexican foreign investment regime is regulated by the Mexican Constitution and international foreign investment treaties; the 2023 Foreign Investments Law ( underscore and linked to the specific LAW); Regulation of the Foreign Investment Law and the Foreign Investment National Registry (underscore and linked to the specific regulation).
INTERNATIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS
USMCA
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is a free trade agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the United States that entered into force on July 1, 2020. This agreement was the result of a renegotiation conducted 2017-19 aimed at modernising, expanding and strengthening the 25-year-old NAFTA that had been in place and very successfully so since 1994. Bringing the latter into the 21st century, the latter is a benchmark modern high-standard trade agreement, supporting mutually beneficial trade resulting in freer markets, fairer trade, supporting stronger investment in the region and more robust economic growth in North America.
One of the main accomplishments of the treaty is its unique Dispute Settlement Mechanism, established in Chapter 31, of great value to the private sector throughout North America as it offers a legal tool to solve differences and greater confidence to investors. The USMCA’s panel reports are binding, and panel decisions are not affected by domestic political pressures.
WTO, CPTPP and beyond
Mexico is a founding member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and a member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Mexico has 13 Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with 50 countries —including USMCA and FTAs with the European Union, European Free Trade Area, Japan, 10 countries in Latin America, and the 11-country Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. Mexico is also a member of the Pacific Alliance, a trade bloc formed in 2011 by Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Peru.