Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Jalisco grew 38 percent at the end of last year compared to 2021, totaling two thousand 894.9 million dollars. This record allowed the entity to go from fourth to third place in the country according to preliminary figures, being the highest number of foreign capital reported since 2015.

In the first place is the capital of the country, Mexico City, which registered 10 thousand 923.3 million dollars; in second place is Nuevo León, with four thousand 397.3 million dollars.

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Foreign investment, in addition to generating training, new techniques, and technology, generates the opportunity for the entity's companies to join the supply chains and generate greater economic growth, shared the Secretary of Economic Development, Roberto Arechederra Pacheco.

A new company that arrives in the state implies that it will also want supplies from the entity and that generates growth in sales for companies, a greater number of jobs and a virtuous circle is generated that allows economic development, he indicated.

“Jalisco is consolidated as the best state in the interior of the Republic, not capital and not border, and third in total terms in foreign direct investment in Mexico. In Jalisco, foreign investments find and will continue to find certainty, talent and the necessary conditions to invest or reinvest and thus bear fruit," said the General Strategic Coordinator of Economic Growth and Development, Xavier Orendáin De Obeso.

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By economic sector, manufacturing industries had the highest FDI capture in absolute terms, going from 558.6 million dollars in 2021 to 1,131.1 million dollars in 2022, 49.38% more than in 2021.

By country of origin, the United States is the country that invested the most in the Entity with 1,378.8 million dollars; It is followed by the United Kingdom with 659.8 million dollars and Canada in third place with 357.8 million dollars.

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