Mexico achieves $34.2 million in FDI in the second quarter of 2025 despite US tariffs.

MEXICO CITY.- During her usual morning press conference this Thursday, the president of Mexico , Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo , stated that the country reached the highest level of foreign direct investment in the second quarter, reaching 34,265 million dollars , and boasted that not even the threat of tariffs by the United States could weaken the Mexican economy .

“Not even tariffs could stop the Mexican economy. That's $34.265 billion. 2025 exceeds the $31.096 billion of 2024, which had already been a record, and is practically more than double that of 2017,” the president said.

President Claudia Sheinbaum celebrates the historic foreign direct investment in the second quarter of 2025, indicating that not even tariffs could stop the Mexican economy. pic.twitter.com/y5V0NTC5gi

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Claudia Sheinbaum recalled that the “ myth of neoliberal obscurantism ” established that “if wages increased, there would be inflation; that if the minimum wage increased, if workers earned more, there would be no investment, because what Mexico could offer the world was cheap labor.”

In response, he noted that these data "show that when people live better, the country is better off, and investment continues to exist and there is no inflation."

The record achieved in the second quarter of 2025 strengthens Mexico's position on the global stage as a manufacturing and export center , amid uncertainty over the trade war driven by the United States .

Furthermore, this comes as the revision of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is awaited, which could begin in the second half of 2025, compared to the original 2026 date, which would help reduce uncertainty and improve the country's investment climate.

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