According to data from the Ministry of Economy, in the first quarter of this year San Luis Potosí received 608.1 million dollars of Direct Foreign Investment (FDI), 46 percent more than that registered in the same period of 2020, when the federal authority reported an injection of foreign capital to the entity for 415.6 million dollars.

Most of this resource is found in the item labeled "Accounts between companies", within which the Potosi entity received 371.7 million dollars of investment, this is equivalent to 61 percent of the total captured by the state in the first three months of the year .

The "New investments" represented capital for 32.3 million dollars and in the section cataloged as "Reinvestment of profits" foreign companies sent to their projects in SLP 204.1 million dollars.

 In the statistics presented by the Ministry of Economy, in the fourth quarter of 2020, San Luis Potosí received 209.4 million dollars in FDI, which means that compared to the previous period the increase was almost 200 percent.

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Most of the investments in San Luis Potosí continue in the manufacturing sector, because of the total capital injected into our state in the first quarter of the year, 461.4 million dollars correspond to this item.

It is followed by the “Commerce” sector, within which foreign companies invested 102.6 million dollars in this period. Then there is the item that the Ministry of Economy labels as "Generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, supply of water and gas through pipelines to the final consumer", in which foreign capital was registered for 34.8 million dollars.

With 608.1 million dollars received in the first quarter of 2021, San Luis Potosí is the second entity in the Bajío with the most Direct Foreign Investment; only surpassed by Guanajuato whose FDI amounted to 969.6 million dollars.

In third place is Querétaro with 271.0 MDD and Zacatecas with 202.5.

According to Solili, in the month of April 2021, San Luis Potosí stood out for registering a demand of 58 thousand square meters, it is important to highlight that the demand volumes in this market correspond to tailor-made projects.

Learn about the behavior and key indicators by consulting the San Luis Potosí industrial report.

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