The Business Coordinating Council (CCE) announced this Saturday, August 15, that the federal government has already authorized $3.5 billion in private investment, a figure its president, José Medina Mora, attributed to Plan México's single-window investor-services mechanism. A formal announcement of the projects is expected in the coming days.
The figure emerged at the close of the CCE's monthly board meeting. Medina Mora explained that since the decrees issued on May 4 under Plan México, government agencies have been responding more swiftly to business requests, and that the investment committee meets weekly. According to La Jornada, the chairman highlighted progress under those decrees and noted that guidelines given to the SAT aim to ensure that the tax-collection function does not stall projects. The single window consolidates permitting procedures and is, according to the CCE, the factor that accelerated approvals. The figure matters for the Mexican economy because it comes after a first-quarter contraction; according to Medina Mora, growth and investment began recovering in the second quarter.
The authorized investments exceed $3.5 billion and include both domestic and foreign capital. "Soon we will have an announcement because there are already more than $3.5 billion in authorized investments," Medina Mora told reporters, according to El Universal. Energy-generation projects head the list because, he added, "without energy, investment will not come to other sectors." Many more projects remain pending authorization, with no public figure on the size of the pipeline. Medina Mora linked the pace of approvals to the T-MEC review, following meetings with Ambassador Roberto Lazzeri and Altagracia Gómez Sierra, coordinator of the Regional Economic Development and Relocation Advisory Council, and noted that Mexico rejected proposals such as raising the percentage of U.S. content in exports.
The next data point to watch will be the sectoral breakdown of those $3.5 billion, the split between domestic and foreign capital, and whether the weekly pace of approvals holds through the second half of the year. The CCE indicated that a formal announcement of the projects will come soon.
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