🇲🇽 Underinvested

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We here at Latinometrics hope you were seated comfortably when you read through last weekend’s edition of the exclusive Domingo Brief—you did read it, right?

Beyond Bolivian ballot battles and Peruvian presidential prisoners, this week’s Brief took stock, if you’ll forgive the pun, of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Mexico thus far this year. After all, and this is not a hyperbole, but no country worldwide is more exposed to this year’s tariff-induced meltdown of the global US-centric trade system than Mexico.

The US is the source for over half of Mexico’s imports and the destination for over three-quarters of its exports. Integration at that level is hard to find anywhere in the world that doesn’t share a common currency.

But here’s a question we rarely ask: what about Mexico’s own capital crossing the border?

Turns out, even with an $840B trade corridor (the world’s largest), Mexican firms have barely $43B parked in the US.

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